Edward Hammersla isn't bothered by the prospect of handing over his name and birth date to airport screeners under the Homeland Security Department's new "Secure Flight" passenger screening program that launches this summer.
Federal agencies and contractors are swelling enrollment at IT boot camps, the intense training courses that drive students through 10 to 12 grueling hours of daily instruction over a few days.
Most homeland security IT initiatives may be near completion for federal agencies governmentwide, according to the new 2005 Federal IT Marketing Report.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is in the market for enterprise tools to sift through the hundreds of terabytes of security-related data it collects.
San Diego County has qualified eight major systems integrators to compete as prime contractors for the renewal of its enterprisewide IT outsourcing project.
The Health and Human Services Department has released presolicitation notices for the development of a nationwide health information network architecture.
The Defense Department will release a request for proposals to obtain technologies that would add bandwidth to the Defense Information Systems Network.
Qwest Communications International Inc. has won a subcontract to provide enhanced networking capability to the Department of Housing and Urban Development Department.
Like any Web portal, the Army's gateway, called Army Knowledge Online, was intended to be a place that consolidated hundreds of applications and services, such as e-mail and people search.
With the rapid growth in IT spending over the past four years, the competitive landscape in the federal government market has intensified. As I have done for previous Top 100 issues, here are some of my observations about the federal IT market.
Cities from around the world are knocking on Philadelphia's door, wanting to know how the City of Brotherly Love launched a wireless network for businesses and citizens.
RS Information Systems Inc. has captured one of the first information services jobs for a young federal tax agency, winning a contract valued at nearly $50 million to provide technology support services to the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
In addition to all of the pricing, competition, human resources and other pressures facing government IT contractors, the Supreme Court just added one more: new exposure to age discrimination claims filed by older workers who are harmed by employment decisions that appear to be neutral.
