Enterprisewide solutions can optimize results and leverage available funding for federal agencies. But sometimes they also create potential for organizational conflicts of interest or related appearance issues.
President Bush yesterday announced his intentions to nominate David Safavian to become the next administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
The Information Technology Association of America wants the General Services Administration to act swiftly to implement a rule enabling greater use of share-in-savings contracting.
As recent headlines have shown, building a foolproof electronic voting system is difficult. A successful system must protect the voter's privacy while ensuring strict accountability of each vote cast.
The House of Representatives passed the Government Network Security Act of 2003, which requires executive branch departments and agencies to protect government computers and information from the risks posed by peer-to-peer file sharing programs.
As the military's weapons and information systems become increasingly complex, integrators that build these systems have discovered they need project management tools equally complex and advanced.
For Northrop Grumman Corp., Los Angeles, Operation Iraqi Freedom provided an opportunity to deploy its Theatre Medical Information Program, a framework for moving patient data around different echelons of the Army.
The General Services Administration awarded the government's highest profile enterprise architecture support contract to a team of three small businesses.
The software certification role of the National Information Assurance Partnership might expand from defense and national security agencies to all federal agencies, a White House official told Congress.
HERSHEY, Pa .-- The Office of Management and Budget will develop an action plan by November describing how it will move the stalled enterprisewide software-licensing program forward.
The exchange of information between the Defense and Homeland Security departments is essential to national security, but the departments still are struggling to share information within their organizations, government officials said Oct. 22 at the Federal Information Assurance Conference at the University of Maryland in College Park.
Gen. Peter Schoomaker, Army chief of staff, has issued the Army Materiel Command a challenge: Enable soldiers to order desert camouflage uniforms just like they'd place an order online from the Land's End clothing company, Gen. Paul Kern told industry and government officials at the Industry Advisory Council's Executive Leadership Conference yesterday.
The General Services Administration next week will officially launch FirstGov en Español, the government's first and only Spanish-language information Web portal.
As contractor and government teams prepare and evaluate proposals, we are reminded that federal agencies increasingly depend on contractors to fulfill their missions. But what can be done when the contract isn't going well, and the contractor and government teams find themselves in situations that aren't working?
A top House lawmaker is pressing the General Services Administration to move forward with the SmartBuy enterprisewide software licensing program. The Office of Management and Budget has said SmartBuy will save more than $100 million annually, but GSA faces resistance from agencies and contractors that question how the program will work and whether they will benefit from it.
