Readers suggest a few projects that could have made our Thanksgiving list of failed, or deeply troubled, government IT projects and debate the causes of such large-scale failures.
Over the years, the American public has been gifted with its share of computer-based turkeys -- information technology projects gone wrong, often at spectacular expense.
Defense Department employees who have worked on large procurements must get a written opinion from an ethics officer before signing on with a defense contractor.
BAE Systems Inc. will support Air Force efforts to monitor nuclear treaty compliance around the globe under a contract potentially worth $20 million over five years.
Catapult Technology will provide a range of information technology services to the Defense Department under a 30-month, $27 million e-business enhancement and management project.
Stanley Inc. will provide Web portal technical services to the Marine Corps under a five-year contract valued at $12.4 million if all four option years are exercised.
Federal, state and local governments are projected to spend $15 billion in 2014 for the IT systems that support their public health and health insurance programs.
Catapult Technology Ltd. has won program management support contracts from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation that have a combined value of $5.1 million.
The House and Senate have both approved a three-year extension for the E-Verify employment verification system in the Homeland Security Department's spending legislation.
The VA's CIO has asked an industry group to advise the department on whether to deploy the VistA digital health record system more broadly to private hospitals and providers.
Apptis Inc. will provide network engineering, information assurance and other services to the Defense Department under a three-year contract worth a total of $28.4 million.
