GSA seeks comments on WITS 3

The General Services Administration has issued a request for information for the follow-on contract for local telecommunications services in the Washington metropolitan area.

HUD picks McDonald Bradley for Web support

McDonald Bradley Inc. won a contract from the Housing and Urban Development Department's Office of Community Planning (OCP) for its Internet/intranet maintenance and support project.

Let the spending begin

California established its new state technology services department last month with a mission: send a clear signal to agencies and industry that the state is serious about consolidating central IT services and functions and leveraging its buying power.

Qwest's Gowen aims at Networx

Diana Gowen has several targets in her sights as the new head of Qwest Communications International Inc.'s government business. The first is winning the General Services Administration's $20 billion Federal Technology Services Networx contract. Also in her crosshairs is the $500 million Defense Information Systems Network Access Transport Services contract.

Inside track

Better telecom needed

DHS redo

Impending changes at the Homeland Security Department likely will energize its reorganization and reshape its funding priorities.

The news in brief

Protests stop Army AKO work

The news in brief

Protests stop Army AKO work

CMS takes battle against fraud to data center

Physicians who bilk Medicare on claims soon may be unable to hide among the system stovepipes of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Officials are modernizing CMS' data collection and storage systems, hoping to bring down the agency's soaring rate of improper payments and reduce waste, fraud and abuse.

Protests put brakes on Lockheed work for Army AKO portal

The Army has announced that Lockheed Martin Corp. will not perform any work associated with the Army Knowledge Online portal until protests challenging the award of the contract are resolved.

SANS releases new list of significant vulnerabilities

Popular applications from Veritas Software and Computer Associates that back up data are among several products that appear on the organization's cybersecurity vulnerabilities list.

NOAA to seek consolidated IT support services

The Commerce Department agency will seek IT services for help desk, seat management, Web programming and development, network operations center, e-mail operations and other services supporting the IT infrastructure.

Veterans Affairs posts Peaches 3 contract opportunity

The Veterans Affairs Department has issued a draft request for proposals for its five-year, $1.4 billion Procurement of Computer Hardware and Software contract

CherryRoad protests Army AKO contract with Lockheed

The contract to consolidate and upgrade the Army Knowledge Online enterprise Web portal is on hold.

Lockheed shoots for 99 percent satisfaction with AKO portal

Higher performance, easier use and access, and increased cost benefits are among the advantages the Army expects to gain with Lockheed Martin Corp. as managing the Army Knowledge Online portal.

Texas Holdum

Dustin Lanier knows it won't be easy getting more than 200 agencies to turn over responsibility for their IT infrastructures to the Texas Department of Information Resources when a new state law takes effect Sept. 1.

Looking beyond borders

It is one of the Homeland Security Department's most tantalizing, big-ticket, system integration projects on the horizon ? but it's been stalled for months as Congress and federal officials review the goals of the department and examine allegations of mismanagement in a related legacy system.

FBI unveils Sentinel plan

The FBI's plan for its new virtual case file management system calls for a four-phase approach that could take more than four years to complete.

SAIC wins National Data Buoy Center support work

Science Applications International Corp. has won a $500 million contract to provide technical support for the National Weather Service's National Data Buoy Center.

General Dynamics unit lands Dutch military communications deal

General Dynamics United Kingdom Ltd. won a $113.6 million contract from the Royal Netherlands Navy for the New Integrated Marines Communications and Information System program.