If your company's technology can make a difference in the effectiveness of a program or a major system, your government customer needs to know about it long before you hope to make a sale.
The Agriculture Department is looking for commercial vulnerability assessment scanning tools. The application must be able to scan a large number of IP addresses and a wide variety of operating systems and applications.
Realizing that the next wave of government satellites will take years to develop and launch ? and even when they are launched, demand may exceed their capabilities ? the military now is reaffirming its need for commercial satellites.
Imagine you're applying for a job, and it looks like a match made in heaven. The employer needs someone with exactly your skills and experience, and you like the stature, salary and challenge of the position. But there's a catch.
Imagine you're applying for a job, and it looks like a match made in heaven. The employer needs someone with exactly your skills and experience, and you like the stature, salary and challenge of the position. But there's a catch.
Vacancies and personnel turnover have reached such high levels at the Homeland Security Department that they may be hampering the agency's effectiveness, according to several industry and policy experts.
Thomas Modly, deputy undersecretary of Defense for financial management, said the department's Business Transformation Agency has met 80 percent of its milestones.
A new report from Computer hardware and software seller CDW Government Inc. finds that more federal workers are working from home this year than last year?with nearly one-half of all teleworkers starting over the past year.
At first glance, the administration heralded its commitment to technology in the fiscal 2007 IT budget, raising the request by more than 2.8 percent over this year. But in a closer analysis of the numbers from agencies over the past month, the Office of Management and Budget revealed that the White House's IT request will increase by only 0.5 percent over 2006.
Democrats on the House Small Business Committee, concerned over President Bush's proposed fiscal 2007 budget, released a report detailing how cuts could impact funding for small-business development programs.
Wireless networks will take on a much more prominent role in the Homeland Security Department's updated requirements for interoperable communications for first responders.
Acting administrator David Bibb submitted the reorganization plan to the House and Senate appropriations committees Monday at their request to review the FAS merger.
Four federal contracting employees have been demoted a pay grade and removed from direct involvement in acquisitions after being accused of mishandling procurements for the nation's $429 million border camera surveillance system.
A memorandum from assistant secretary of the Navy Delores M. Etter essentially eliminates with the direct reporting program manager structure and moves four of the five DRPM program offices under program executive offices.
The "Buy Lines" column in the Jan. 30 issue ("For 2006, troubling signs on the horizon") about the Acquisition Advisory Panel raised false alarms that are not supported by the panel's work or any law.
"What do you do?" is just about the worst question to ask Lynn Livengood, especially if you meet her at a small-business fair where she scouts potential partners.
I wrote in this column recently of the concerns that many in the private sector have about proposals being considered by the congressionally mandated Acquisition Advisory Panel. Industry has made its concerns clear and has engaged in a robust, open dialogue with the panel about them.
Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has picked up several IT companies as clients since he opened his lobbying firm, the Ashcroft Group, last year.
