Dennis Fischer, former commissioner of the Federal Technology Service of the General Services Administration and most recently a vice president of Visa USA, will serve as the firm's director for government innovation.
The Housing and Urban Development Department's incumbent IT services vendor, Lockheed Martin Corp., is fighting the award of the follow-on contract to EDS Corp.
Lockheed Martin Corp. announced Monday an agreement to acquire Titan Corp. for approximately $2.4 billion, a move that will strengthen its position in defense and intelligence technologies.
A new unit in the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division has been launched to improve the department's response to cybersecurity threats.
Angela Styles' departure next week from the Office of Management and Budget leaves a hole in the administration's competitive sourcing strategy, one that IT industry executives hope is soon filled.
<b>Washington Technology presents its Top 25 8(a) companies and Fast 50 rankings</b><br>In 1998, Preferred Systems Solutions Inc., President Robert Hisel Jr. sold all his commercial work to another firm and used the proceeds to focus on the government market. Colleagues questioned his wisdom. Today, he says, "They are asking me, 'How the hell do you get into this government stuff?' "
California's monumental task of staging a short-notice, special recall election has some experts using the dreaded "F" word: Florida. The effort to recall California Gov. Gray Davis has caught many of the state's 58 counties off balance.
Angela Styles, the federal government's top procurement official, is resigning and will return to private law practice. She has been responsible for the policies and regulations governing $240 billion a year in purchases by the federal government.
<font color="CC0000"> UPDATED </font color>Norman Lorentz will leave his post as the Office of Management and Budget's chief technology officer to join DigitalNet, a Northern Virginia IT company.
A senator is asking the original contractor on the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board record-keeping system, American Management Systems Inc., for all of its records relating to the project.
