The Windsor Group LLC has launched an investment fund that will provide both cash and expert advice to small and midsized government services companies.
The White House has identified 18 agencies that will not receive funding to upgrade their information technology systems until they fix security problems. "Agencies need to secure what they have," not layer new projects on top of vulnerable IT infrastructures, said <b>Karen Evans</b>, administrator for IT and e-government in the Office of Management and Budget.
After struggling with the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program for the past eight months, the General Services Administration last week finally signed the first agreement with geographic information systems vendor Environmental Systems Research Institute.
The federal government needs to take four steps to dramatically speed and improve the security clearance process, a coalition of technology trade groups said today.
EDS Corp. will suspend new transition work on the $860 million HUD Information Technology Services contract following court-ordered negotiations with incumbent Lockheed Martin Corp.
A House committee chairman wants to know how the Education Department determines a school's eligibility for federal financial aid, and if those standards might be of use to sift out degrees from unaccredited schools.
It is impossible to eliminate attacks such as the recent MyDoom worm and others, but the government has taken significant steps to keep federal systems safe, the head of cybersecurity at the Homeland Security Department says.
The Share-in-Savings Program Office at the General Services Administration has developed two tools to evaluate projects for use with share-in-savings contracting, said Ken Buck, director of the office.
Share-in-savings contracts are appropriate for several types of IT work, industry and government officials said, including system or infrastructure consolidation and revenue collection.
President Bush's lower-than-expected request for technology spending in 2005 has put contractors on notice that the government market will become even more competitive in the months ahead. The president's $59.8 billion budget request for information technology is up just $671 million from his request of $59.1 billion for 2004, a 1 percent increase. The White House released the fiscal 2005 request Feb. 2.
The issue of "offshoring" ? moving work from the United States to lower-cost locations overseas ? is taking off. Presidential candidates are talking about it; Congress has taken small steps toward banning it on federal contracts; and analysts of all stripes have weighed in with their perspectives.
	The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has chosen the National Provider Identifier as the standard ID for filing and processing health care claims and other transactions.
	Congress has lifted some restrictions on agency purchases of commercial information technology items from foreign companies, even as it seeks more information about such buys.
The Homeland Security Department will tell industry about its technology needs at a conference March 8 and 9 at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in Washington. DHS staff will discuss technology research and development and requirements for testing, evaluation and DHS funding.
Federal procurement officials are poised to issue new guidelines that could give share-in-savings contracting the boost it needs for wider use in the federal government.
When the administration proposed consolidating numerous agencies into a Department of Homeland Security, proponents of procurement deregulation took advantage of the opportunity to advance their agenda in the name of speedy protection of lives and property from terrorist attack.
	The Air Force has issued a broad agency announcement for information on advanced computing architectures for command and control systems. There are several submission deadlines, and a funding schedule of about $25 million. For details, see fedbizopps.gov, solicitation no. Reference-Number-BAA-04-03-IFKA.
