The Navy has released the request for proposal for its Defense Department-wide Defense Integrated Military Human Resource System. Implementing this personnel system may be worth up to $1.5 billion.
Global Crossing Ltd. filed a protest with the General Accounting Office over its loss of the $450 million Defense Research and Engineering Network contract.
The House approved the Digital Tech Corps Act, establishing an exchange program for midlevel IT staff of private-sector organizations and government agencies.
The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five armed services. Its job is a unique weaving of military, law enforcement and service to civilians via international waters and America's coasts, ports and inland waterways.
As budgets for homeland security continue to grow, companies across the country are searching for effective ways to present their products and ideas to federal and state agencies.
New industry-backed legislation designed to streamline the way federal agencies purchase services faces opposition to some of its key provisions, including objections from the White House about the source of proposed work-force training funds.
Rep. Albert Wynn, D-Md., has introduced a bill to require that contracting officers determine that bidders have a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics, including a record of compliance with laws such as tax, labor and employment, environmental, antitrust and consumer protection.
With its capture of the controversial $450 million Defense Research and Engineering Network contract, WorldCom Inc. won some much-needed bragging rights in the telecommunications market.
The Army Communications-Electronics Command is looking for software development, system engineering and support services for Army ground combat programs, including the Global Command and Control System, the Maneuver Control System, the Combat Service Support Control System, and the Common Software family.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., called on the Bush administration to develop a plan that would enable information sharing through governmentwide adoption of extensible markup language, or XML. Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, made the recommendation in response to a General Accounting Office report that analyzed the challenges of implementing XML.
Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., has asked the General Accounting Office to examine how the GSA's Federal Technology Service awards its Metropolitan Area Award contracts for local telecommunications service.
The Acquisition Streamlining Improvement Act extends for two years the pilot program authorizing streamlined procedures for commercially available goods and services.
Avaya Inc. has finished installing a new digital communications network linking 12 Navy bases in the greater San Diego area. Avaya received $10 million for the one-year contract signed April 27, 2001.
Officials with the departments of Defense and Justice rejected proposals by the telecommunications industry to allocate more spectrum for commercial use.
Industry and government officials are working toward a quick end to a 60-day moratorium imposed last week by the General Services Administration on leasing of IT products under the Federal Supply Service schedule.
The Navy is aiming to complete testing of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet and get the Defense Department's permission to add 100,000 more seats to the program.
