The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today approved Paul Denett's nomination to lead the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
The first large-scale test of the technology that will put Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 into practice is slated to be in place by Oct. 20.
It's appropriate that Lurita Doan draws inspiration from the Renaissance ? the new administrator of the General Services Administration is trying to pull the much-maligned agency through a rebirth of its own.
Nearly five years after 9/11, reports show the federal government has made limited progress on sharing terrorism information because of uncertainty about what to share, and how to do so without infringing on civil liberties.
An unexpected hurdle to the General Services Administration's long-standing reorganization appeared this month when Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.) placed a hold on the bill as part of an effort to promote the government's use of energy-efficient buildings.
Bent on meeting deadlines to pass critical authorization and appropriations legislation, Congress has let several troubling provisions slip into some bills.
President Bush's recent executive order to upgrade the nation's emergency warning system lays out an ambitious plan to coordinate a patchwork of federal, state and local alert systems.
A familiar regulation of the Small Business Administration allows a contractor that qualified as a small business at the time it won a contract to be considered small for the life of the contract. More than three years after SBA proposed to amend it, that regulation remains in force.
Assertions by the Small Business Administration's former adminstrator that the government surpassed its congressionally mandated goal of awarding 23 percent of federal prime contracts to small companies have come under sharp attack from congressional leaders, the SBA's inspector general and Government Accountability Office.
The Army is looking for contractors to provide logistic support services in 12 task areas for installations in the continental United States and overseas.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee charge that the Bush administration is failing to implement the technology-related recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and falling short on other homeland security priorities.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee charge that the Bush administration is failing to implement the technology-related recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and falling short on other homeland security priorities.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee charge that the Bush administration is failing to implement the technology-related recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and falling short on other homeland security priorities.
The Homeland Security Department would be required to set up a new IT system and database for tracking missing persons and reuniting families following major disasters under an amendment approved by the Senate last week.
Independent Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords places a hold on legislation that would officially recognize the Federal Acquisition Service?which GSA already launched?and, more important, merge the General Supply and IT funds into the OneFund.
The Homeland Security Department anticipates announcing in July the winners of FirstSource, a $3 billion small-business IT contract to help the department integrate and standardize its IT systems and tools.
If you are, in even a loose sense of the word, lobbying someone in the government in an effort to get, modify or extend a contract, you may need to disclose that activity.
Instead of hardening all critical infrastructure, focus should be on ensuring continuity of essential systems, advises a recent report by former White House cyber czar Richard Clarke and the Century Foundation.
