Interior Looks for Interactive Database, Support: The U.S. Air Force Academy's 34th Operations Group needs a new interactive database. The Interior Department's GovWorks site is helping with the procurement.
The GSA's Federal Technology Service released guidelines that will allow telecommunications companies to provide the government with both local and long-distance services.
Winstar Communications Inc. and Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. won contracts to provide local telecommunications services to federal agencies in San Antonio.
The Army intends to centralize systems management at about two dozen major commands under the service's chief information officer, to designate a single authority to manage information dissemination, and to set up accounts for all Army personnel on the agency's enterprise portal ? all by Oct. 1.
Canada's ambitious plan to be the world's most-connected government is expected to generate billions of dollars of work for systems integrators and other information technology contractors.
Just about every major government technology issue crosses the desk of Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va. As the chairman of the Government Reform subcommittee on technology and procurement policy, Davis this year has examined legislation and held hearings related to federal technology policy, outsourcing, government procurement, work-force development, federal telecom services and electronic government.
Compaq Computer Corp.'s subcontracting role on the recently announced $2 billion National Security Agency Project Groundbreaker ? won by Computer Sciences Corp. ? is more than just sweet success for the Houston company. It represents the federal unit's new emphasis on being the sole provider of both hardware and support services for integrators.
The Federal Aviation Administration is in the homestretch on its multibillion-dollar telecommunications infrastructure contract, and now the challenge may be how to evaluate bids from contractors with significantly different areas of expertise.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the government's antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. has spawned the expected flurry of coverage, comment and spin, but little light has been shed in the popular or trade press on the significance of the decision to other businesses in the personal computer industry. Jonathan Cain addresses this issue in the lastest "Infotech and the Law."
The House Armed Services Committee Aug. 2 recommended that the Marine Corps be released from the $6.9 billion Navy-Marine Corps Intranet outsourcing initiative. The committee cut President Bush's fiscal 2002 budget request for the NMCI program by $120 million, authorizing $527 million.
The U.S. Postal Service's planned $1 billion information technology services contract is attracting some of the largest providers of computer hardware and services. "We're going to go after the contract very aggressively. We've put a significant amount into the relationship," said Ron Ross, president of Compaq Federal.
NetCom Solutions International Inc. intends to announce Aug. 6 it has created a wholly owned subsidiary to provide its networking services and solutions to federal, state and local government customers.
The federal government's use of flexible, governmentwide acquisition contracts to purchase IT products and services is up 36 percent between fiscal 1999 and fiscal 2000, according to a market analysis.
Companies that provide telecommunications services to federal agencies under the Metropolitan Area Acquisition program are potentially disadvantaged when they compete for business against incumbent providers, according to the General Accounting Office.
The $350 million lawsuit filed July 17 against American Management Systems Inc. by a federal agency for alleged failure to perform is the latest in a string of legal conflicts, which are casting a pall on the company's operations.
SAP Public Services Inc., a subsidiary of SAP America Inc. of Newtown Square, Pa., is providing the Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command armament research, development and engineering center with portal software that provides users with a single point of access to critical information.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the government's antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. has spawned the expected flurry of coverage, comment and spin, but little light has been shed in the popular or trade press on the significance of the decision to other businesses in the personal computer industry.
A Senate committee July 19 unanimously approved Hector Barreto's nomination to be the next head of the Small Business Administration. The nomination now moves to the Senate floor for confirmation.
