Despite twice extending the award dates for its $20 billion Networx procurement, the General Services Administration now wants to significantly beat its current deadlines, as it juggles several other lucrative telecommunications and IT contracts to be awarded over the next two years.
Despite a proposed fiscal 2007 presidential IT budget that remains relatively flat ? the overall increase is only 2.8 percent over last year's enacted levels ? IT contractors likely will continue to see plenty of business opportunities.
The Homeland Security Department's IT department is capturing 44 percent of all new IT spending proposed by the White House for fiscal 2007, according to a new report from Input Inc.
The Homeland Security Department must set up a new National Operations Center to integrate federal agency response and give a unified view of disasters, the White House recommends in a report issued today.
The General Services Administration wants comments from government and industry on whether sections of the Federal Acquisition and the GSA Acquisition regulations need to be simplified.
The Homeland Security Department cannot yet guarantee that its top-secret intelligence systems are out of reach from hackers, according to a new report from the department's inspector general, Richard Skinner.
The General Services Administration will post a video on the Internet Feb. 21 about its new strategy and timeline for the multibillion-dollar governmentwide Alliant Full and Open and Alliant Small Business procurements.
The Homeland Security Department has been so slow in assessing and testing basic system security and privacy controls for the U.S. Visit system that it may be jeopardizing the success of the program, according to the Government Accountability Office.
The Treasury Department's standalone telecommunications vehicle was poorly conceived and disorganized from the start, resulting in missed deadlines and increased costs, according to the agency's inspector general.
Small businesses working with the federal government may have a shot at winning more contracts, after the Acquisition Advisory Panel voted to adopt recommendations designed to help small companies procure government contracts.
Although civilian agencies' overall budgets will decrease under the president's budget plan, many technology related programs are scheduled for increases.
Contractors that use online employment applications or resume databases will need to submit the data in their annual EEO-1 reports and during compliance audits.
Under President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget request, submitted to Congress last week, agencies would get an IT budget of $64.2 billion, a 3 percent increase over fiscal 2006.
Many civilian agencies' overall budgets are scheduled to decrease under the president's budget plan, but close scrutiny shows that spending for IT-related programs may actually rise.
Health and Human Services Department IT would rise by 4.8 percent in fiscal 2007 under the White House's budget plan, buoyed in part by bioterrorism spending and IT infrastructure initiatives.
