What it does: The Education Department's main goal is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence. It operates programs on every area and level of education.
One of the thorniest issues for federal contractors is determining if and how the Service Contract Act applies to a specific contract. Although the SCA has been around for a while, many of its requirements are misunderstood.
Debate about public-private job competitions is heating up on Capitol Hill as lawmakers await an independent report recommending improvements in conducting the competitions.
The House of Representatives March 20 approved 421-0 a bill that would allow increased telecommuting among private-sector employees doing work for the federal government.
The Bush administration will issue a national strategy for cybersecurity this July that will be available to government and industry on the World Wide Web, according to senior administration officials.
The Defense Visual Information directorate of the American Forces Information Service has released a draft request for proposals to acquire a Visual Information Management System.
Science Applications International Corp. won a task order from the General Services Administration to support the Federal Computer Incident Response Center.
Titan System Corp.'s Defense & Intelligence Systems Group has won a U.S. Special Operations Command contract for enterprise integration technology. "This latest win significantly expands on the work that Titan Systems has been doing in support of the U.S. Special Operations Command for the past 13 years," said Gene Ray, Titan's chairman, president and chief executive officer.
The Freedom to Telecommute Act, allowing increased telecommuting among private-sector employees working for the federal government, was unanimously approved.
President Bush asked Congress for an additional $27.1 billion in emergency funding for fiscal 2002 to add resources for the war on terrorism, homeland security and economic recovery. IT projects in the request include infrastructure protection, biometrics, the Cybercorps and standards development.
The House Government Reform Committee approved three bills that would reform the acquisition process and aid information technology employees in the public and private sectors.
The FAA is something like the "DMV of aircraft." It establishes air-worthiness standards, inspects and licenses civilian aircraft, regulates air traffic, investigates accidents and puts forth safety rules. It promotes the national airport system.
Senior government officials are putting a higher priority on electronic government than they did a year ago, but they are walking a tightrope to balance the twin tasks of developing e-government and beefing up the security of their IT systems, recent studies show.
Later this month, the first salvo in a competition for government business will be fired, but it won't be contractors dueling for the latest federal opportunity. Instead, the General Services Administration will face off against GovWorks, the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service franchise fund.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is investigating the Pentagon's controversial decision to award and then rescind a $400 million telecommunications contract to troubled Global Crossing Ltd. Chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La., and other top committee members have asked the company to provide all records related to the Defense Research and Engineering Network contract.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a contract with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division to provide software engineering support for the Navy Training Management and Planning System.
