For a view of homeland security policy ideas espoused by Stewart Baker, the Homeland Security Department's new policy czar, look no further than his testimony to the 9/11 Commission.
Diana Gowen has several targets in her sights as the new head of Qwest Communications International Inc.'s government business. The first is winning the General Services Administration's $20 billion Federal Technology Services Networx contract. Also in her crosshairs is the $500 million Defense Information Systems Network Access Transport Services contract.
In late June, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded a lower-court decision dismissing a case challenging the constitutionality of the Defense Department's price evaluation adjustment program for small disadvantaged businesses (SDB).
Prime IT contractors for the Pentagon would be much less likely to use subcontractors, and Defense Department contracting options would shrink if a pricing amendment sponsored by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) is approved as part of the defense authorization legislation, industry groups charged last week.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's new requirement that first-time visitors to the United States provide 10 fingerprints -- rather than the two currently required -- is being applauded as a move toward more meticulous identification and better security.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) says the General Services Administration should conduct more post-award contract audits to ensure the federal government is getting the best possible prices on contracts.
The House and Senate appropriations committees came out with close figures on overall Homeland Security discretionary spending in their draft bills for fiscal 2006.
Dustin Lanier knows it won't be easy getting more than 200 agencies to turn over responsibility for their IT infrastructures to the Texas Department of Information Resources when a new state law takes effect Sept. 1.
Sun Microsystems Inc. is retooling its global government business with new leadership and a new structure to chase growing opportunities in systems modernization, information sharing and secure networks.
Lawmakers are applying additional restrictions and greater oversight on large IT and e-government projects in the fiscal 2006 agency spending bills making their way through Congress.
When the Census Bureau's enumerators go door to door to survey households for the 2010 census, they will be equipped with handheld computers instead of pencils and note pads.
On June 8 the interim Federal Acquisition Regulation rule implementing Section 818 of the 2005 National Defense Authorization Act was published. Section 818 was Congress' response to the Boeing KC-767A Tanker Aircraft acquisition and the related Defense Department inspector general's report that criticized it.
