The Office of Management and Budget has approved the $1 billion Transportation Security Administration contract award to Unisys Corp. for the company to build and maintain TSA's IT infrastructure.
The Homeland Security Act (H.R. 5005) passed by the House in July is a massive piece of legislation that not only will restructure the government, it will reshape dealings between government and the private sector on a variety of security-related issues.
The General Services Administration's revamped e-Buy procurement portal is being touted by both federal buyers and their suppliers as an effective tool for increasing competition and making the buying process more efficient.
The Senate's 2003 Defense authorization bill has raised objections from technology industry representatives to provisions that would significantly change how the Defense Department purchases professional services.
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young S.A., the $8 billion consulting giant based in Paris, is plotting a fast-track approach to the U.S. federal information technology market.
Vance Coffman, chief executive officer and chairman of Lockheed Martin Corp., has been named chairman of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
What it does: The Agriculture Department is largely associated with keeping a watch on the nation's food, particularly to ensure the safety of meat, poultry and egg products. It runs federal food and nutrition programs, such as food stamps, school breakfast and lunch programs and the Women-Infants-Children program. It monitors animal and plant safety and health. It protects national forests and grasslands and encourages conservancy of soil, water and wildlife on private lands; provides housing and conveniences to rural America; leads research on food and nutrition matters; and assists farmers and the hungry worldwide.
The Bush administration's effort to increase the number of public-private competitions could be derailed under legislation recently passed by the House.
The Office of Management and Budget intends to temporarily freeze more information technology spending to eliminate redundant IT investments among federal agencies, according to a White House official.
News of a corporate scandal,like the accounting troubles recently disclosed by companies such as Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc., can significantly affect a company's business in the federal as well as commercial marketplace.
<FONT SIZE=2>Computer Sciences Corp. named Tim Sheahan as president of its new Enforcement, Security and Intelligence Division, and Pat Ways as president of business development for its Federal Sector business unit. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>	The House bill setting up the new Department of Homeland Security, H.R. 5005, includes several key technology provisions. One offers antitrust, civil liability and Freedom of Information Act exemptions to companies or individuals who voluntarily provide ordinarily private information about threats, vulnerabilities and intrusions upon the nation's critical infrastructure. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>	House and Senate appropriators differ in the amount of money they would approve for the administration's e-government fund, which has been used on some of the Office of Management and Budget's 24 e-gov initiatives. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>General Dynamics Corp.'s aggressive moves to position itself as an information technology provider to the Defense Department are well known. But the company also has been quietly working to win more business with civilian agencies, especially by leveraging its engineering and network talents developed for defense customers.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>The Department of Agriculture's National Finance Center in New Orleans is looking for integration and application support for its electronic publishing system. The system is comprised of IBM servers, EMC software, Sun workstations and Windows 2000 software.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>The Internal Revenue Service intends to award a contract for PC-based, commercial, off-the-shelf actuarial software and support services, including software maintenance, technical support services, professional actuarial services and training.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>The National Institute of Standards and Technology needs an interface for a high-speed arbitrary bit stream generator in order to further the aims of the AC Josephson voltage standard. </FONT>
The Office of Management and Budget's e-government management team met July 16 met with the Washington Technology and Government Computer News editorial staffs to discuss the administration's e-gov progress and what the future holds. Participating OMB staff members included Mark Forman, associate director of OMB for information technology and e-government.
