The high society of government contracting honored the best of its own earlier this month at the inaugural dinner of the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting proposals for the advanced decision environment technology program, which will develop and demonstrate technologies for global information and knowledge sharing. It also will provide decision-makers with analysis and simulation tools for tactical and strategic planning and operations, and enable advanced command and control.
The Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is developing a request for proposals for systems engineering and integration for its mission planning system program office. The contract will be for four years with a series of options that could extend it for 16 years.
The Army has issued a request for information for equipment and subsystems to support command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements of its next generation theater support vessel.
Systems integrator Dynamics Research Corp. faces civil fines of up to $30 million under a government lawsuit charging that the company failed to properly supervise two employees who defrauded the government on contracts at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts.
The Office of Management and Budget will develop an action plan by November describing how it will move the stalled enterprisewide software licensing program.
HERSHEY, Pa.?The homeland security effort needs an "interstate information expressway" paid for by the federal government but that can be used by state and local first responders to share information, Steve Cooper says.
Gen. Peter Schoomaker, Army chief of staff, has issued the Army Materiel Command a challenge: Enable soldiers to order desert camouflage uniforms just like they'd place an order online from the Land's End clothing company, Gen. Paul Kern told industry and government officials at the Industry Advisory Council's Executive Leadership Conference yesterday.
The software certification role of National Information Assurance Partnership might expand from defense and national security agencies to all federal agencies, a White House official tells Congress.
As contractor and government teams prepare and evaluate proposals, we are reminded that federal agencies increasingly depend on contractors to fulfill their missions. But what can be done when the contract isn't going well, and the contractor and government teams find themselves in situations that aren't working?
On Aug. 14, a law took effect that places substantial new obligations on the marketing and lobbying activities of companies doing business with the state of New York. Known as Executive Order 127, "Providing For Additional State Procurement Disclosure," it requires contractors to establish new training and compliance programs for doing business in New York.
Contractors can expect more opportunities for share-in-savings contracts under a new procurement rule proposed early this month by the General Services Administration.
The Senate approved an amendment to a supplemental spending bill this month that requires new Iraqi construction contracts to be awarded through full and open competition, unless the contracting agency publicly justifies a sole-source or limited-bid contract.
