Science Applications International Corp., CACI International Inc. and Resource Consultants Inc. have each won a place on the Naval Supply Systems Command's contract for technical support services.
The White House will be issuing executive orders in the coming weeks that should bring more insight into information technology's role in the emerging policy of homeland security, according to a high-ranking agency official.
In a splash of publicity, Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., unveiled its Sun Fire 15K Starcat server, which the company proclaimed as the world's largest single-cabinet Unix server system.
When Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy Muris was asked during his confirmation hearings whether he believed additional legislation was needed to protect privacy in consumer business and financial transactions, he gave the routine, cautious answer: The question needed more study.
Squabbling among major telecommunications providers apparently has ended a collective industry push to make telecom services more widely available to government agencies.
The Defense Information Systems Agency has released the request for proposal for the next Defense Enterprise Integration Services contract. The RFP can be found at <a href="https://www.ditco.disa.mil/dcop/Public/ASP/dcop.asp">https://www.ditco.disa.mil/dcop/Public/ASP/dcop.asp</a>.
Northrop Grumman Corp., Los Angeles, has won a contract worth up to $650 million to provide information technology products and services to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Computer Sciences Corp. won two task orders worth $47.9 million over four years under the Immigration and Naturalization Service's Service Technology Alliance Resources program.
Federal government spending on information technology products and services will increase from $36.4 billion in 2001 to $60.3 billion in 2006, a compound annual growth rate of 10.6 percent, according to Input Inc., the market research firm based in Chantilly, Va.
Federal government spending on information technologies will increase from $36.4 billion in 2001 to $60.3 billion in 2006, a compound annual growth rate of 10.6 percent, according to Input Inc., the market research firm based in Chantilly, Va.
Concerned with a lack of competition on governmentwide contracts, the Senate has added amendments to the Defense authorization bill that would restrict the Defense Department's use of contracts let by other agencies. The amendments are a sign there is growing concern in Congress that procurement reforms have gone too far and may need to be scaled back, said a staffer of Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.
With government spending expected to increase following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association is predicting federal spending on IT will jump 15 percent in fiscal 2002, growing to $49 billion from $42.7 billion in 2001. Federal government IT spending is expected to reach $65 billion in fiscal 2007, an average annual growth of 5.6 percent.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development will be pushing the cutting edge of procurement reform with its planned HITS performance-based contract.
A DynCorp subsidiary won a contract worth about $60 million to provide services and support to the Naval Education and Training Professional Development Center.
The Quadrennial Defense Review outlines sweeping changes needed in the U.S. military, with investments in information technology, logistics modernization and acquisition reform leading the list.
The government will need to spend more than $75 million replacing IT hardware and services following the Sept. 11 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, a study says.
Rep. Stephen Horn, who kept a spotlight on government year 2000 efforts, is applying the same heat to protecting the nation's and government's critical IT infrastructures.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, named director of the new Office of Homeland Security, is recognized as an advocate of information technology and the important role it plays in government.
Amid the death and destruction of the terrorist attacks Sept. 11 in New York and Washington, the United States received a brutal wake-up call about the vulnerability of the nation's critical infrastructures ? both physical and electronic.
