The federal government expects to hire more than 11,000 information technology experts and 8,000 government contracting experts in the next two years, according to a new survey of personnel officials at 34 federal agencies.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency does not have effective procedures to protect information contained on its laptop computers, according the Homeland Security inspector general Richard Skinner.
Research spending could lead to U.S. borders being protected by buried fiber optic tripwires, advanced power sources and high-resolution listening devices.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has approved reform legislation that would overhaul the Coast Guard's Deepwater acquisition program. It also advanced a Coast Guard authorization bill that provides $917 million for Deepwater in FY 2008.
The government's procurement spending continues to climb, noncompetitive contracts occur more frequently, and waste, fraud and abuse persist throughout the departments, according to a report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The Homeland Security Department's directorate of Science and Technology suffers from weak internal management controls and high turnover in its staffing, according to a new GAO report.
InfoGuard Labs has been accepted by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to evaluate state voting systems under the commission's accreditation program.
A number of contracting reforms are taking shape. After months of stops and starts, it appears that a handful of "accountability in contracting" measures will be heading to conference as part of the Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2008.
The growth rates of the federal IT budget and growth among the publicly traded federal IT services firms have been slowing on average since the Iraq war began because funds allocated to the war have not fully covered the costs and usually have been delayed.
Mention the word kickback and visions spring to mind of dealmakers offering Rolexes. But government procurement policy-makers will soon be grappling with much more nuanced market behaviors, courtesy of three whistle-blower cases filed by DOJ.
