The FBI must establish more stringent controls over contractor expenses on the $425 million Sentinel automated case-management system to keep close tabs on project costs, government auditors say.
Three departments in the state of Maryland will fund the initial stages of a multiyear, statewide communications project that would allow first responders from different jurisdictions to communicate with each other.
Unisys has filed a protest with GAO objecting to being left off the list of finalist bidders for the estimated $2 billion contract for TSA's Information Technology Infrastructure Program.
Transparency is essential to building credibility when dealing with public funds and the public trust, and numerous proposals now before Congress seek to enhance transparency in government contracting. Their essentialgoal is laudable even though some of these proposals are driven bya misperception that fraud is rampant in federal contracting ? aperception even the special inspector general for Iraq reconstructionhas repeatedly challenged.
The Homeland Security Department is seeking information from contractors that could provide technical support and analysis for its information security program.
Agencies are increasingly choosing contractors as shared service providers for their modernized financial management systems over federal agencies that provide the same services.
The Army wants 3-D facial-recognition and multispectral fingerprinting technologies for its Biometrics Automated Toolset program managed by the Language and Technology Center.
The agency did not fully justify the lack of competition for 15 single-source contracts totaling $469 million that it awarded in fiscal 2006, according to a new report.
The Homeland Security Department has decided not to consider Unisys Corp. for the next installment of the IT Managed Services contract, which the company has held since 2002.
The Local Preparedness Acquisition Act authorizes state and local governments to use GSA's Multiple Award Schedules to buy law enforcement and security-related items.
The Coast Guard has improved the way it oversees its $24 billion Deepwater asset acquisition program but is still struggling to hire enough expertise for the job, according to a new report.
