A major new business opportunity will open up for systems integrators this year if federal officials and state lawmakers decide to let private companies process applications for welfare eligibility.
The Industry Advisory Council and the Federal Government Information Processing Councils today named Joiwind Ronen as the new executive director of both organizations.
Some familiar names disappeared from this year's Top 100, but not because business was bad. Business at these companies was good?so good, in fact, that larger companies gobbled them up.
As cellular telephones become commonplace, the General Accounting Office says statistics about the quality of calls should be included in annual federal reports on the wireless industry.
When Washington Technology published its first Top 100 list of federal IT contractors in 1994, a Democrat was in office, defense budgets were shrinking and the Internet was just emerging as a business tool.
High-tech heavyweights are bulking up for new opportunities in homeland security, defense and e-government. At the same time, mergers and acquisitions and new players, like Michael Solley and MTC Technologies Inc., are reshaping the marketplace. Washington Technology's 2003 Top 100 tracks the changes over the past year and examines the outlook for the year ahead.
The House Science Committee has approved a bill establishing a National Nanotechnology Research and Development Program, authorizing $2.4 billion over the next three years.
As the use of open-source software, such as Linux, increases in the public sector, commercial and government agencies are taking steps to obtain credentials necessary for open source use in high-security environments.<br>
The Energy Department will seek competitive bids to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory when the University of California's contract runs out in September 2005.
Maximus Inc. has been chosen by the Transportation Security Administration to develop technologies leading to a national Transportation Workers Identification Credential card.
Microsoft Corp. is making a new, "gigantic" push for more public-sector sales?an area in which the software company acknowledges it hasn't invested as much as its competitors in the past decade.
CACI International Inc. plans to acquire Premier Technology Group Inc. to expand its client base in the defense and intelligence communities and enhance solutions it provides for military operations.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. is looking for a new president to run its federal solutions group as part of a restructuring of the company's government business.
The National Communications System has expanded coverage for its Wireless Priority Service for cellular phone users into the western and northeastern continental United States and Hawaii.
Daniel Burnham, Raytheon chairman and chief executive officer, voluntarily resigned, effective July 1, the company announced April 23.The board of directors has named William Swanson to succeed him.
