The Office of Federal Procurement Policy hopes to follow the General Services Administration's lead in reviewing and consolidating repetitive governmentwide acquisition contracts.
I can't remember a time when government procurement leaders have been as silent as they are today. It's not that there isn't a lot worth talking about. So why the silence?
AT&T Government Solutions underscored its commitment to small-business partnering when it tapped 30 such companies for its team chasing the gargantuan Networx telecommunications contracts.
Despite improvements, the Homeland Security Department still has weak information security programs overall, according to a new report from DHS Inspector General Richard L. Skinner.
John G. Grimes, the former vice president of Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, replaces Linton Wells, who had served as acting CIO and assistant secretary for networks and information.
The Federal Communications Commission is expected today to decide whether to approve SBC Communications Inc.'s $16 billion purchase of AT&T Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc.'s $8.5 billion purchase of MCI Inc.
The General Services Administration will hold a public forum on its multibillion-dollar Alliant procurement later next month, and may issue a second set of draft requests for proposals, according to the official in charge.
The Citizenship and Immigration Services agency exceeded the statutory limit on H-1B visas it issued in fiscal 2005, and lacks the technology to stay within the congressionally mandated visa cap, according to Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard L. Skinner.
George W. Foresman, Virginia's assistant to the governor for commonwealth preparedness, has been nominated by President Bush to be the Homeland Security Department's undersecretary for preparedness.
First responders would have more radio spectrum in the 700 megahertz band under legislation approved Oct. 20 by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee as part of the fiscal 2006 fiscal budget resolution.
The Ethics Resource Center (www.ethics.org), the country's oldest non-profit devoted to promoting organizational ethics, published its National Business Ethics Survey this month.
The most recent example was this summer. GSA insisted, under threat of termination, on major price reductions for Sun Microsystems Inc. products across multiple schedule contracts. But other audits are quietly working through the discovery and settlement process, which involves an analysis of every order and price a company charged for goods and services to federal and nonfederal customers.
Aerial oblique photography has become dramatically more popular in recent months for homeland security and emergency preparedness, and at the moment, it seems the sky is the limit for this specialized imaging technology that lets users see front and side views of buildings and other geographic features.
