The Army's chief information officer has launched four initiatives to change the structure of the service's IT environment and help accelerate some moves under the Base Realignment and Closure program.
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) said this week that the Treasury Department's insistence on going forward with its own contract instead of using a General Services Administration governmentwide vehicle "makes no sense."
The General Services Administration will issue a draft request for proposal in early March for its $1.8 billion follow-on contract for local telecommunications and data services in the Washington metropolitan area, an agency official said today.
Industry response, the complexity of the Networx procurement and further program discussions prompted GSA to extend the award dates for its $20 billion telecommunications and networks contract, John Johnson, assistant commissioner for GSA's Office of Service Development and Delivery, said today.
The General Services Administration has extended the award dates for its $20 billion Networx procurement to March 2007 for the Universal awards and May 2007 for the Enterprise awards.
A separate proceeding before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will determine whether BlackBerry devices and the wireless network should be shut down.
The General Services Administration will extend the Federal Telecommunication System 2001 contracts for two years with incumbents Sprint Communications LP and MCI Worldcom Communications Inc.
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BlackBerry users are crossing their thumbs in hopes that the Supreme Court intervenes in the long-running patent dispute over the wireless handheld e-mail devices.
The Worldwide Satellite Systems program will bring turnkey commercial satellite systems and associated support services for satellite terminals, including all hardware, software, services and data to operate the terminals.
Common radios and wavelengths are the first steps to preventing the kind of communication problems that reduced senior military leaders to sending runners to relay messages between bases and posts during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to Adm. Thomas F. Hall.
The General Services Administration will hold its industry day on the Alliant contracts in February to discuss any changes made to the massive IT project.
The Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program achieved full operational capability earlier this month with completion of one third of the network for classified and nonclassified data.
The Homeland Security Department's Chief Information Officer doesn't have the authority to integrate the department's IT infrastructure throughout, according to the DHS inspector general.
A newly released survey of CIOs confirmed that Web issues and security, followed by wireless technologies, have held on to their positions as the leading technologies that concern federal IT professionals.
The General Services Administration expects to hold its industry day on the Alliant contracts in early January to introduce changes made to the $65 billion IT procurement, an agency spokesman said today.
