<FONT SIZE=2>Rodney Hunt, president and chief executive officer of RS Information Systems Inc., expects only 10 percent of his company's $200 million in 2002 revenue will come from contracts set aside for 8(a) firms. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Both houses of Congress are working on legislation that would tighten security loopholes in the way states issue driver's licenses, but the bills may have a hard time passing this year because of concerns about privacy.</FONT>
When terrorists flew a jet into the 90th floor of the World Trade Center's north tower, Gregory Burnham, who was in his office on the 71st floor, had one main focus: get out with his staff and let his family know he was OK.
Disappointment. That describes what most of the information technology industry is feeling regarding state and local homeland security spending. Companies are discouraged with the amount of money spent on homeland security, the lack of opportunities in their sales pipelines and the relatively small size of the projects that have been launched.
Gerald P. "Geep" Fisher's reputation was already known to Chris Fisher when the couple met at a party in 1982. "He was the guy that threw a really great party at Thanksgiving," she said of her husband, a Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. employee who was killed when American Airlines Flight 77 flew into the Pentagon. "I wanted to get invited, so I introduced myself."
What has changed since Sept. 11, 2001? There are the obvious answers: federal employees in airport screening lines, memorable declines in market capitalization of public companies, demise of the worst of the dot-com hucksters and the most widespread attack by government lawyers on federal civil rights in more than half a century.
The Senate is expected to take up legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security this month. The House has already passed its version of the legislation, called the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
Just two weeks before Sept. 11, a team of employees from SRA International Inc. handed over control to the Navy of a command center the team had built.
The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service is looking for a contractor to modernize the source code of Montcrdk 7.52, the software used by the agency to analyze bids it receives for mineral rights.
Sept. 11, 2001 - 8:46 a.m. American Flight 11 hits the north tower of World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. - United Flight 175 hits the south tower. 9:38 a.m. - American Flight 77 hits the Pentagon.
The Pentagon fires were still burning when Tom Buonforte and his team at General Dynamics Network Systems began sifting through the rubble, trying to figure out how they would rebuild the computer and telecommunications networks in the damaged wing.
The Fairfax, Va., County Chamber of Commerce is urging Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to reconsider a plan to restrict any new defense-related construction, leasing or facility improvements to an area outside a 100-mile zone around Washington.
In June, the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva set the equipment standard for metropolitan-sized optical networks, those networks less than 31 miles long.
