The General Services Administration is gearing up to evaluate comments from 167 companies on the creation of GovNet, a new, secure intranet for federal agencies.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency wants a contractor to provide technical assistance for systems engineering, design and review, integration and project management support activities for its Information Technology Services Directorate.
The Army Recruiting Command has chosen e-RecordsManager software from Impact Systems Inc., Chadds Ford, Pa., to manage record keeping for its 10,000 Army guidance counselors. The system will track recruit information from first interview to enlistment.
As Operation Enduring Freedom enters its second month and the reality of a lengthy military campaign looms ahead, the Defense Department continues its shift to a full, wartime posture.
Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon Sept. 11, Unisys Corp. officials were huddling to discuss how the terrorist attacks would change the dynamics in the federal market.
The Defense Information Systems Agency will issue a solicitation for global scientific, engineering, integration and technical services to support its missions and other Defense Department and federal agencies. This program will replace the Joint Information Engineering Organization Systems Engineering contracts, the Defense Information Infrastructure Integration contract and other contracts within DISA that are due to end.
iXP Corp.'s contract to maintain the emergency 911 system for the New York City Police Department allows the company exactly 5.26 minutes of downtime each year. That's less than one second every 24 hours.
As U.S. lawmakers take up a raft of bills affecting the information technology industry, anthrax scares and the temporary closing of congressional offices have exacerbated the normal confusion that accompanies the legislative process.
President Bush's $20 billion emergency appropriations request is loaded with funding proposals for information technology initiatives to bolster computer security, improve airport security and provide training to counter biological and other threats.
Imagine this scenario: Upon arrival at the airport, you show the ticket agent your government-issued identification card, place your thumb in a fingerprint reader to verify your identity, and it gets checked against a database of known terrorists.
The White House will be issuing executive orders in the coming weeks that should bring more insight into information technology's role in the emerging policy of homeland security, according to a high-ranking agency official.
In a splash of publicity, Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., unveiled its Sun Fire 15K Starcat server, which the company proclaimed as the world's largest single-cabinet Unix server system.
When Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy Muris was asked during his confirmation hearings whether he believed additional legislation was needed to protect privacy in consumer business and financial transactions, he gave the routine, cautious answer: The question needed more study.
Squabbling among major telecommunications providers apparently has ended a collective industry push to make telecom services more widely available to government agencies.
The Defense Information Systems Agency has released the request for proposal for the next Defense Enterprise Integration Services contract. The RFP can be found at <a href="https://www.ditco.disa.mil/dcop/Public/ASP/dcop.asp">https://www.ditco.disa.mil/dcop/Public/ASP/dcop.asp</a>.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development will be pushing the cutting edge of procurement reform with its planned HITS performance-based contract.
Many federal agencies are at risk of missing the 2003 deadline for complying with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act, according to a report released by the General Accounting Office.
Programs now on the books for federal agencies to improve their weather forecasting capabilities may prove to be among the best investments the government is making in light of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
Amid the death and destruction of the terrorist attacks Sept. 11 in New York and Washington, the United States received a brutal wake-up call about the vulnerability of the nation's critical infrastructures ? both physical and electronic.
