The government hasn't paid enough attention to protecting the nation's IT infrastructure, even as threats continue to mount, a former CIA director said today.
Companies responding to the federal government's request for information for new e-government projects should provide ideas for systems that integrate existing initiatives.
The General Accounting Office has ruled that federal employees do not have the right to file protests to GAO over public-private competitions under revised OMB Circular A-76.
John Johnson, assistant commissioner for service delivery in GSA's federal technology service, revealed few changes his agency is considering for the upcoming $10 billion megacontract for governmentwide telecommunications and networking products services.
Teams of industry and government experts gather every day to address requirements and solve problems in the federal acquisition process. That process increasingly involves performance-based contracting approaches in which contractors make oral presentations for both market research and contract negotiation.
Many taxpayers dread the month of April when they must file their annual income-tax returns. But perhaps no one has more cause to shrink from the Internal Revenue Service these days than Computer Sciences Corp.
	The Homeland Security and State departments asked Congress for a two-year extension of an October deadline by which 27 countries were to provide biometric passports to citizens traveling to the United States.
Defense Department officials asked Congress to change a law that limits defense task and delivery order contracts to five years, including options and modifications, according to Deirdre Lee, the Pentagon's director of procurement.
The Homeland Security Department awarded almost 41 percent of its prime contracts to small businesses between the department's creation March 1, 2003, and Sept. 30, 2003, the end of the fiscal year, according to the department's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. The annual federal goal for small-business prime contracting is 23 percent.
President Bush's fiscal 2005 budget reflects a slight shift away from creating new e-government projects to a focus on maintaining existing IT projects and shoring up network security, according to industry and government officials.
The Homeland Security Department issued interim rules Dec. 4, 2003, that established its own acquisition regulation, known as HSAR. The rules supplement the Federal Acquisition Regulation and establish a uniform acquisition process for the entire agency, except the Transportation Security Administration.
	The Social Security Administration needs a vendor for network intrusion protection services at its Baltimore headquarters. Services include weekly and monthly compliance tests of the agency's external network, including firewalls and Web servers, monthly audit reports, security advisories, technical support and provision of real-time intrusion detection technology.
NASA Ames Research Center seeks submissions from commercial companies for airborne remote-sensing instruments for its suborbital research programs, specifically for its Earth Science Enterprise.
	The Smithsonian Institution is modernizing its telecommunication systems and needs new services, including conventional telephony, voicemail systems, cables for voice and data cable plants, and voice over IP for all its museums, facilities and offices.
The stunning agreement between long-time rivals Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. has sparked optimism among integrators and resellers, who say the partnership could translate into new opportunities in the government market.
