The purchase of information technology products and services by civilian agencies should see slow but steady growth in the coming five years, with NASA and the departments of Transportation and Treasury and among those who lead the way in spending, according to a new industry group study.
Justice Creates Victim Notification System: The Justice Department plans to release a request for proposals by Nov. 1 for the development of an automated victim notification system.
Justice Creates Victim Notification System: The Justice Department plans to release a request for proposals by Nov. 1 for the development of an automated victim notification system.
The Department of Defense is encouraging trans-Atlantic alliances, including acquisitions, as one way to address growing concerns about interoperability among technologies fielded by U.S. forces and their allies.
Digital Signature Trust Co. of Salt Lake City is the first winner of the General Services Administration's Access Certificates for Electronic Services contract.
Digital Signature Trust Co. of Salt Lake City is the first winner of the General Services Administration's Access Certificates for Electronic Services contract.
Contractors have long used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as a means of gathering intelligence on the federal marketplace, including data on competitors' proposals and contracts. The law continues to evolve in this area, however, and greater protections now are available against competitors' requests for confidential data.
While applauding the White House's policy change to relax restrictions on encryption technology exports, lawmakers said they plan to push legislation in the upcoming weeks to lock the Clinton administration into sticking to its word on implementing the change.
Trident Data Systems Inc. of Los Angeles had the security technology and L-3 Communications Corp. of New York had the money and the market reach. And with the formation last year of their joint venture, L-3 Network Security, the two created a company geared to attack the changing nature of network security.
Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., and the Defense Department have developed a tool that allows sharing of information over the World Wide Web between disparate work-flow applications.
The Defense Department looks like the bright, shining star of the government information technology and electronics markets, according to a new study by the Electronic Industries Alliance.
The General Services Administration has identified two Department of Defense projects as the most likely candidates for the agency's "share-in-savings" pilot program.
Andersen Consulting has a chance to put its money where its mouth is by winning a Department of Education contract to modernize the nation's student loan system.
It is decision time for information technology integrators in the government enterprise software market. Policy changes at the General Services Administration and the Oct. 1, 1998, demise of the Financial Management Systems Software schedule have opened the market and increased competition.
Before the end of the year, members of Congress will be pushing various legislative tax-relief measures aimed at easing the financial burden the information technology industry faces in recruiting and training skilled workers.
The Army is conducting an A-76 study to see if it should contract out its information management services at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama. The Office of Management and Budget's A-76 document sets out how agencies should decide whether to keep non-core functions in house or to outsource them.
ITT Industries Inc. of White Plains, N.Y., and Fortress Technologies Inc. of Tampa, Fla., have signed a reseller agreement under which ITT will resell Fortress' virtual private network, data communications and security solutions to the federal government.
ITT Industries Inc. of White Plains, N.Y., and Fortress Technologies Inc. of Tampa, Fla., have signed a reseller agreement under which ITT will resell Fortress' virtual private network, data communications and security solutions to the federal government.
