Whether Congress will pass a Defense appropriations bill this year is unclear, but what is certain is a transition at the department will take place in a matter of months when a new president is elected.
DHS has awarded five-year blanket purchase agreement contracts to BearingPoint Inc., EDS Corp. and Xtec Inc. to provide services to comply with HSPD-12.
Mitchell B. Waldman, former national security advisor to former Sen. Trent Lott, will work on acquisition regulations and policies issues involving DOD and other agencies at Northrop Grumman.
Under the 2008 omnibus appropriations law, agencies must get more information on contractors' health and retirement benefits when hosting public/private competitions.
Washington State has issued more than 2,000 new hybrid drivers license-passport cards since it began issuing them a month ago, and 13,000 more people have signed up to apply.
A proposed Chinese investment in 3Com Corp. has been shot down, at least for now, by the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
A flurry of international deals involving European buyers ofU.S. defense and civilian contractors has been under waysince early 2007. Of 292 transactions by strategic buyersof U.S.-based defense companies in 2007, 50 buyerswere foreign ? 17 percent. So far in 2008, two of 17 deals involveforeign buyers.
A common business strategy in the federal market is tostart as a small business, taking advantage of the socioeconomicpolicy that requires large businesses to subcontractto small, disadvantaged businesses andagencies to award 23 percent of their prime contracts to them.
Treasury's acquisition service, FedSource, made mistakes as it helped the Defense Department make purchases in fiscal 2006, but none were significant enough to end the relationship.
Fewer than a third of the $11.5 billion in contracts awarded by DHS in fiscal 2007 were approved after full and open competitions, according to USAspending.gov.
Relief from the backlog of industry security clearances for contractors might be on the way but there is still plenty of work to do, according to the White House official overseeing the effort.
DHS Secretary' said in the next few days the agency will "likely accept" the first task order of its multibillion-dollar project to use technology and tactical infrastructure to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
DHS has had some success in its mission but has been slow into attaining efficient management, according to testimony from Comptroller General David Walker.
Industry executives find it difficult to work with the Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology Directorate because of the agency's lack of responsiveness, according to a new report.
