HHS issues RFI for health-care worker qualifications portal

The Health and Human Services Department wants to develop a portal to provide access to the public and private data repositories that contain the qualifications of government medical incident officials.

ReserveAmerica wins Forest Service contract ? again

The award is the result of a recompete for the National Recreation Reservation Service after a bidder protested the original award by the Agriculture Department agency to ReserveAmerica.

Army Knowledge Online support service contract awarded to SNVC

The service has awarded a support services contract for the Army Knowledge Online's Program Office to veteran-owned company SNVC LC.

Symplicity wins bid to run FedBizOpps.gov

Symplicity Corp. has been awarded a three-year, $17.4 million best-value contract to run the federal government's online procurement portal.

NIST launches accreditation program for e-voting system evaluations

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun an accreditation program for laboratories that want to evaluate voting systems.

CGI-AMS wins Kentucky financial ERP deal

CGI-AMS has won a contract from Kentucky to implement an enterprise resource planning solution to streamline business processes and improve productivity.

Study finds slowing e-gov adoption

The Presidential e-Government Initiatives have lost steam because people still prefer to interact with agencies over the telephone, according to a new report.

AT&T unit wins GIG-BE support work

AT&T Government Solutions won a subcontract to provide engineering and installation work at key locations in the United States and abroad for the Defense Department's Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion project.

CDW-G to deliver Microsoft software to Navy overseas bases

CDW-G will provide the software for 28,000 desktops and 884 servers in the Naval Network Warfare Command's One-Net, a single enterprise network covering 16 shore installations in Europe, the Middle East and Far East.

DHS seeks info to get ID management off the ground

The Homeland Security Department is looking for ideas on how to launch a major enterprise-level Identity Management Project for its 180,000 employees, as well as for state, local and federal contractors and officials.

Army to issue contract for AKO portal, RFPs for GFEBS, ITES-2

The contracts represent roughly $1.4 billion in combined procurements and include the Army Knowledge Online enterprise portal and a consolidated approach for the service's financial-management systems.

VeriSign cleared to provide digital certificates for working with Defense

VeriSign Inc. said it has been approved by the Defense Department to issue digital certificates required for anyone who wants access to protected government Web sites and applications.

Get ready to pitch for JHITS

The Defense Information Systems Agency today issued a request for proposals for the $300 million, Joint Hawaii Information Transfer Service contract for telecommunications services.

Army to cast more critical eye on enterprise networking programs

Maj. Gen. Dennis Moran said Army IT budgetary dollars in 2006 would be closely linked to how well a program's requirements are defined and whether the program is being built to service the whole enterprise.

HHS: Drug safety reporting system could be prototype for health data exchange

Secretary Mike Leavitt said an Rx drug adverse-event reporting system could be one of the first projects that a federal advisory group might take on as part of an initiative to build a national health information exchange.

Agencies move to fine-tune emergency XML

A group of emergency management agencies and IT industry representatives, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, are moving to refine their Extensible Markup Language protocol for emergency public warnings.

NEC, Tropos forge wireless mobile data alliance

NEC Solutions America Inc. has entered into a partnership with Tropos Networks Inc. to provide wireless mobile data systems to police, fire and emergency medical personnel.

OMB issues draft changes to federal EA

The Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office has outlined new subfunctions for the health and human resources business lines, and clarified definitions for two subfunctions and three new lines of business.

Health IT network RFPs issued by HHS

The Health and Human Services Department has released requests for proposals that it hopes will pave the way toward developing a national health information network infrastructure that supports the exchange of electronic health records.

House panel: FBI 'scrambling' to launch VCF project

A House Appropriations Committee report says the FBI is hastening to prepare its latest attempt at a case file system and is cutting corners to do.