The Office of Personnel Management is seeking a contractor to train the agency's workforce on new software designed to help modernize its financial and procurement systems.
The FBI faces special risks in developing the Sentinel case management system because it plans to do so at the same time that it is rolling out its new enterprise architecture, according to a letter issued this week by Government Accountability Office auditors.
The General Services Administration took an important step toward getting the blanket purchase agreement in place by May 2006 for agencies to buy approved products and services to meet Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
The loss of key officers won't impede the restructuring of the General Services Administration's acquisition operations, according to G. Martin Wagner, associate administrator for GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy and soon-to-be acting Federal Acquisition Service commissioner.
Just in case there's a question in anyone's mind that those convoluted, multipage intellectual property and data rights clauses in government contracts mean what they say, the U.S. Court of Federal Claim last month provided one contractor with a painful lesson that they do.
At $4 billion, the Infrastructure Modernization program is one of the biggest Army opportunities of 2006 ? and one of the biggest federal government telecommunications awards as well.
The Common Alerting Protocol, an XML standard for sending warning messages over many different types of networks, has picked up high-profile users since it debuted in 2004.
Prospects might be brightening slightly for procurement activity on the multibillion-dollar federal Integrated Wireless Network (IWN) as a result of lessons learned from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Mihir Shah and Stella Mercado Colwell of Suh'dutsing Technologies LLC and MerCom, respectively, met Kim Bowley at State Department small-business networking events early this autumn. By November, both 8(a), HUBZone companies were teamed with ManTech International Corp., where Bowley has been the small-business liaison officer since 1990.
Private equity groups and companies looking to make deals in the homeland security and government contracting market are about to face a new competitor.
The Homeland Security Department earlier this year experienced a significant setback to its information-sharing mission in the breakup of its partnership with a major law enforcement intelligence network.
After the incremental but growing success of the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program, the Office of Management and Budget is expanding the concept to IT hardware.
Marty Wagner is on deck to replace Barbara Shelton and become acting commissioner of the General Services Administration's new Federal Acquisition Service.
The FBI experienced a major setback in its failure to deploy the long-awaited Virtual Case File IT system, but it is performing better in its management of Sentinel, which is the successor system, according to a new report from the Justice Department's Inspector General.
