The Homeland Security Department has never used the streamlined acquisition authorities granted by Congress when the department was created 2002, according to the Government Accountability Office.
South Carolina CIO Jim Bryant spoke recently with Washington Technology about disaster preparedness, major statewide IT initiatives, and building public-private relationships.
The House of Representatives is seeking an integrator that will help complete the chamber's implementation of Oracle's PeopleSoft financial management software.
Federally operated joint field offices will play a significant role in managing response following future natural disasters and other major incidents or attacks, according to several new documents released by the Homeland Security Department.
The Bush administration is on a federal procurement binge, fueled by increasing mismanagement and corruption in such contracts, Democrats on the House Committee on Government Reform allege in a new report.
A portion of the $1.9 billion in new border security funding approved by Congress this week will pay for IT systems for surveillance and intelligence analysis to be used by National Guardsmen at U.S. borders.
The Transportation Security Administration's intelligence office needs to improve its IT links with other intelligence units within the Homeland Security Department, a senior TSA official said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
The Small Business Administration is proposing to implement a new regulation aimed at providing more contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses.
Justice Department concerns over possible conflicts of interest have slowed General Dynamics Corp.'s $2.2 billion acquisition of Anteon International Corp., but company officials and analysts remain optimistic that the deal will get done this month.
The jury is still out on whether FBI is effectively managing its IT procurements, the Government Accountability Office stated in a newly released letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The United States wants to implement biometric border-crossing identification cards by 2008 to protect the nation against possible attacks by terrorists based in Canada.
The Government Printing Office plans to issue a solicitation for a vendor that can establish a repository that will manufacture, personalize and issue Personal Identity Verification cards for smaller agencies.
Hackers, cyberterrorists and thieves are not the only ones from whom agencies need to protect their computer networks and data. As officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs can attest, critical information needs to be secured internally as well.
Government interoperability and disaster preparedness experts painted a bleak picture of how much progress states have made toward communications interoperability since Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast last year.
Results in the federal IT industry have been dampened by the late passage of the fiscal 2006 defense bill, and more recently have taken a hit from the delay in the defense supplemental spending bill.
When people talk about the wide-ranging troubles at the General Services Administration today, I'm reminded of a similarly challenging situation in the mid-1990s that turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to the agency.
Lynwood Owens is deep in discussions with a woman-owned 8(a) business that for the past seven years has worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development. The contract is coming up for recompete at year's end, and Owens, a program manager at General Dynamics Network Systems, sees a change in how the smaller company handles the contract: It would become the prime contractor to USAID, and the General Dynamics unit would be its subcontractor.
