The U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology office is set to release a strategic plan as requested by Congress. Not surprisingly, the program office is expected to ask for more money.
The Homeland Security Department and the Pentagon are the main drivers behind federal IT spending growth, but systems integrators can still expect to see the Office of Management and Budget exerting pressure to control spending.
Organizational conflicts of interest are a constant source of concern for both industry and government. Despite guidance offered in the FAR and a long line of Government Accountability Office cases, contractors and agencies struggle with identifying and resolving these conflicts.
The Homeland Security Department soon will consolidate the e-mail systems of its 22 agencies, and it should surprise no one that Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook e-mail application is way ahead in the competition before it even begins.
The federal government's IT spending will grow at a compound annual rate of 4.5 percent through fiscal 2007, as total IT investments hit $68.3 billion that year, compared to $59.8 billion in fiscal 2004.
OFPP and OMB's IT and E-Government Office will soon send a memo to agency officials reminding them that it is against the FAR to name a specific product in a procurement without a written justification.
Representative from the federal government and the information technology industry yesterday unveiled a Web site to educate federal workers about the benefits of telecommuting and to calculate cost savings.
The Chief Information Security Officers Exchange brings together key stakeholders in federal IT security, Justice Department CIO Vance Hitch said Tuesday at FOSE.
Homeland Security Department Chief Information Officer Steve Cooper's announcement last month that his agency is collaborating with the Justice Department on a national data-sharing model may have had a familiar ring.
As a lawyer who has brought bid protests on behalf of protesters and defended them on behalf of awardees, I am always of two minds whenever I learn of something that may generate more bid protest litigation. That was my reaction to recent press reports about the General Services Administration's new plan to hire as many as 100 outside contract employees for acquisition and contract administration services ? work that federal employees normally would perform.
As attorneys representing American Systems Consulting Inc., or ASCI, we have a different view regarding GAO's decision in our client's contract protest. GAO's decision affirmed a simple holding: Agencies can use the simplified ordering procedures for GSA schedules, but only for those services listed.
With the telecommunications industry rapidly consolidating, cable television companies are starting to see opportunities to grab business in the federal market.
Contractors supplying new technologies to the Homeland Security Department are renewing their push to ease what they feel is an arduous application process for the department's Safety Act liability protections, and to strengthen the protections for trade secrets they disclose in their applications.
The Government Accountability Office and the DHS Inspector General are raising warning flags on several big-ticket IT projects at the Homeland Security Department.
