The Association for Federal Information Resources Management yesterday said Laura Callahan will not run for a second term as the organization's president.
An aging government work force will spur a huge market for software and applications that help people with disabilities use computers and other information technologies, an IBM executive says.
Unisys Corp. unveiled a new strategy, called Business Blueprinting, and four related public-sector technology solutions that the company said would help government agencies streamline business processes.
Integrator McDonald Bradley Inc. is focusing its efforts on web applications, including the emerging field of the Semantic Web, its president said in a Washington Technology interview.
Four days after application software provider PeopleSoft signed a $1.7 billion deal to buy J.D. Edwards & Co., an even bigger fish announced this morning it wants to swallow PeopleSoft.
Find a need and fill it. That business truism has served Deltek Systems Inc. well during the past two decades as the company has made itself the dominant provider of government cost accounting software.
Deloitte Consulting has operated quietly in the federal marketplace for three years, while amassing the bulk of its government work in the state and local arena. A high-profile e-government job with the Transportation Security Administration, however, could put a spotlight on its federal business.
Many agencies have mentor-protégé programs that pair a large business with a small business. The programs are designed to foster more than just a prime contractor-subcontractor relationship. The large business mentor helps its protégé with business development, training and learning the ropes of business in general and government contracting in particular.
Quality Research Inc. of Huntsville, Ala., was "too small to be big, and too big to be small" after graduation from the 8(a) program in 2001, said its former president, Gary Ryan.
Lou Ray, president and chief executive officer of MATCOM International Corp. in Alexandria, Va., said he's paying a lot more attention to partnering with large contractors than he used to.
Executives at NCI Information Systems started planning for the firm's 1999 graduation from the 9-year-long 8(a) program five years in advance, said Linda Allan, executive vice president of strategic programs for the McLean, Va., firm. Small firms compete for set-aside contracts through the 8(a) program, which is run by the Small Business Administration.
Big, name-brand companies are seen as more credible than small firms, so getting government customers to accept newfangled solutions from a small company can be hard, Ray Muslimani said. His firm, 4-year-old Global Computer Enterprises Inc., employs about 100 people.
A successful small business excels at a few things, said Valerie Perlowitz, president and chief executive officer of Reliable Integration Services Inc. in Dunn Loring, Va.
One of the first things Michael Barbee did after joining WAM!NET Government Services in 2001 was move the unit of Eagan, Minn.-based WAM!NET Inc. to Herndon, Va.
When the Army last month awarded a $14.9 billion contract to Boeing Co. and Science Applications International Corp. for its Future Combat Systems program, the service stipulated that these cutting-edge systems be built using a cutting-edge methodology known as spiral development.
