Management oversight over DHS' U.S. Visit program will be strengthened as it moves to a new directorate on March 31, said Bob Mocny, the program's acting director.
DOD, GSA and NASA are calling for public comment on a proposed rule to establish a code of ethics for contractors similar to the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
DHS has no clear authority at this time over a $1 billion fund for public safety agency interoperable communications equipment that it has been publicizing as a first responder grant program.
DOD has suspended a preference it has previously given to small, disadvantaged businesses, saying that it had exceeded its goal of awarding contracts to such firms.
The long-awaited Veterans Technology Services governmentwide acquisition contract is open for business. GSA announced today that agencies can place orders through VETS.
CGI Federal Inc. has received an award from the EPA to be its shared-services provider for its Financial System Modernization Project. EPA is the first large agency to migrate to a shared provider under the Financial Management Line of Business.
As part of its post-Hurricane Katrina overhaul, FEMA is setting up a new National Advisory Council to provide advice to it on all aspects of emergency preparedness and response.
Officials at SRA International Inc. were well aware of the benefits of receiving an Information Security Assessment Capability Maturity Model rating, having first gone through the process of receiving an assessment back in 2001.
Selecting the "best" technology for a program would be tough enough in a static world, but DHS officials find themselves pushed and pulled by three major forces in the format fights.
It's a depressing sign of getting old: You witness the discrediting of a bad idea, then, after a period of dormancy, its resurrection as the new best thing. It's happened with fondue, leggings, open classrooms and now, in the procurement arena, fixed-price development contracting.
