Despite an $893 million outlay on information-sharing networks in the past two years, the Homeland Security and Justice departments do not have effective networks in place, a GAO report states.
DHS' most recent enterprise architecture shows improvements but is still missing key pieces and is only of limited usefulness, according to a new GAO report.
AT&T Government Solutions, Verizon Federal and Qwest Communications International have hit the ground running trying to build business through the Networx Universal contracts.
Successful IT consolidation in state government usually means culture change, and that can require the deft use of carrots and sticks to overcome resistance.
L-3 Communications has completed its purchase of Global Communications Solutions, a provider of portable satellite communications products and equipment.
CACI International won a $91 million task order from the Army to provide communications support to the Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems headquarters.
The FCC invited public comments this week on a proposal advanced by Frontline Wireless LLC to set aside a 22 MHz block of radio spectrum for a wireless broadband network for first responders.
Maximus Inc. has won a contract worth nearly $70 million from the Tennessee Finance and Administration Department to implement enterprise resource planning software throughout the state government.
Despite revenue growth across state government in recent years, funding for IT will face stiff competition with other priorities over the next several years.
Convera Corp. is selling its RetrievalWare search business to a Norwegian company, and Convera's federal government customers are bracing for the change.
As AT&T Government Solutions begins to develop business based on its March win of the GSA's Networx Universal contract, it is recruiting small business partners.
GSA awarded Satcom II contracts today to 24 communications companies, including nine small business contractors, to provide next-generation, worldwide satellite services to federal civilian and defense agencies.
DHS plans to select a vendor this summer to build a second cross-agency data center, and has directed prospective contractors to propose locations in the Western U.S. to help shield the facility from any major East Coast blackout.
