BAE Systems Inc. has designed an information technology services model for the Treasury Department that addresses specific capital investments, service-level agreements and pricing needs.
A brouhaha is brewing over allegations that the feds are out to hire away contractors' best employees – sometimes with substantial cash bonuses and sometimes with threats of contract cancellations.
Six contractors have been named to a new Agriculture Department information technology contract vehicle that has a ceiling value of $25 million over five years.
Lt. Gen. Carroll Pollett, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, reiterated the importance of the contract workforce to DISA at an industry presentation Aug. 7, especially, he said, as the agency faces moving its staff to Fort Meade next year.
Avineon will provide technical support and management oversight to the Marines Corps under a five-year contract with an estimated value of $29 million.
Science Applications International Corp. will furnish technical and management support services to the Army’s Chief Information Officer under a newly awarded contract.
Melissa Hathaway's resignation as the Obama administration’s acting senior director for cyberspace has caused scrutiny about how the Obama administration is accomplishing its extensive cybersecurity agenda.
Melissa Hathaway, who led the administration's 60-day review of cyber policy and was considered a candidate for the new White House cyber coordinator position, will resign later this month, according to an article on The Wall Street Journal's Web site.
OMB issued three memos today that outline $40 billion in savings on contract spending. It told agencies to cut seven percent from their budgets for contractors.
The new head of the Coast Guard acquisitions unit said he wants to make permanent the relationships between the new unit and the Homeland Security and Defense departments.
Gary Winkler, program executive officer for enterprise information systems at Fort Belvoir, Va., discussed a number of current initiatives, including the Logistics Modernization Program, the Army Enterprise System Integration Program and the recently concluded Network Service Center Operational Validation exercise.
Three national health care providers have been named to provide managed health care support for the Defense Department’s Tricare program. They are: TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp., of Phoenix; Aetna Government Health Plans, of Hartford, Conn.; and United Health Military and Veterans Services, of Minnetonka, Minn.
