The market for information technology outsourcing is becoming more mature, and managers in the public sector should use new models for managing major IT outsourcing projects, a new report says.
Federal CIOs expect to outsource more information technology projects to the private sector during the coming year, especially in areas where agencies lack in-house resources or technical expertise, according to a new survey.
Identity management software provider ActivCard has completed its transition from being a French company to a U.S. one, a move done in part to better serve the U.S. government.
Northrop Grumman Corp. will fully automate the Federal Aviation Administration's telecommunications invoice process under a contract worth an estimated $79.6 million over 15 years.
<FONT SIZE=2>The White House has proposed a far-reaching policy change that would require small businesses to recertify annually their eligibility for some contracts reserved for small business. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>The president's budget proposal for fiscal 2004 cuts funds for 25 cross-agency e-government projects by nearly 24 percent, to $173.9 million, not including investments by the Defense and Federal Emergency Management Agency, to be announced next month. Thirteen projects got more money, nine projects less and two held steady.</FONT>
William Shafley overlooked row after row of empty workstations stretching across a snazzy 43,000-square-foot call center in Reston, Va. In one corner of the sunlit building, a handful of employees were taking orders and making contacts with government customers. By the end of the year, Shafley wants to fill this office, leased in December by Micro Warehouse Gov/Ed Inc., with 300 government sales and support personnel.</FONT>
Xybernaut Corp. has been selected by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center-Southeast to provide solutions to support first responders in Charleston, S.C.
Keane Inc. and Signal Corp. have concluded a long-running contract dispute that went through an arbitration panel and three rounds of court hearings, with Boston-based Keane receiving a $7.3 million arbitration award after the Virginia Supreme Court rejected Signal's latest appeal.
Orincon Defense, a part of San Diego-based Orincon Corporation International, won a contract to provide signal and information technologies support to the Navy.
Alan Balutis has been named president and chief operating officer of Veridyne Inc., an information technology consulting and software company based in Broomall, Pa.
ABM America Inc. won a $7.3 million subcontract from Lockheed Martin Corp. to provide a records management system to support a Pennsylvania State Police incident information management system.
