The FBI will impose financial penalties on its contractors if they miss deadlines for rolling out the Trilogy project to modernize systems agencywide, FBI director Robert S. Mueller III today told a Senate subcommittee.
The House Government Reform Committee plans to hold hearings about the effects of mergers and acquisitions among federal IT contractors, Rep. Tom Davis said today.
The House Government Reform and Small Business committees have negotiated changes to several procurement provisions of legislation that reauthorizes the Small Business Administration.
The SBA has proposed to cut the number of small-business size standards, used in loan programs, contracts set asides and other federal business-development programs.
The increasing emphasis on performance-based acquisitions and other results-oriented initiatives has sparked a need for cultural change in government and industry.
The General Accounting Office asked Congress to amend the Government Performance and Results Act to require that agencies better use performance measures.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee said the Homeland Security Department is not doing enough to defend the nation's information infrastructure or leverage IT.
Oscar Morales likes to compare the early days of the federal e-rulemaking initiative to early use of online tax filing. The IRS' offering was slow to gain acceptance; now it is a time-saving tool used by millions of people and businesses.
The Defense Department has published amendments to its supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, known as DFAR, as part of its program to transform defense procurements. Most of the changes are marginal, but the department also is moving many regulations out of DFAR and into a procedures, guidance and information manual, or PGI, that won't have the force of law.
The Navy is looking for a small business that can provide professional management services to the Naval Criminal Investigation Service in Washington. The services will be used by several departments including administration, planning and evaluation, financial management, human resources and information technology.
The Air Force Air Armament Center is looking for information on technical and acquisition support. The center develops, tests and maintains air armament and other combat support needs.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Sytex Inc., Arrowhead Global Solutions Inc. and Communications Technologies Inc. had the ceiling on their contracts with the Homeland Security Department expanded by $108 million, taking the ceiling from $64.5 million to $172.5 million.
When Michael Jalbert came to E.F. Johnson Inc. in early 1999, the company was losing money, had been delisted from Nasdaq and was facing class action lawsuits from shareholders.
The General Services Administration this month plans to release a draft request for proposals to upgrade and enhance FedBizOpps, the government's procurement portal.
Government and private-sector executives disagreed today on whether the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have adequate program management, enterprise architecture and data standards to effectively move forward on a project to create common, electronic medical records.
