Federal agencies and contractors are swelling enrollment at IT boot camps, the intense training courses that drive students through 10 to 12 grueling hours of daily instruction over a few days.
General Dynamics Corp. won contracts worth $7 million from the U.S. Army to modernize the communications and data infrastructure at Ford Drum, N.Y., and Fort Lewis, Wash.
Harris Corp. has won a $35 million contract modification from the Federal Aviation Administration to upgrade the voice communications displays used by the nation's air traffic controllers as part of the Voice Switching and Control System.
Like any Web portal, the Army's gateway, called Army Knowledge Online, was intended to be a place that consolidated hundreds of applications and services, such as e-mail and people search.
Cities from around the world are knocking on Philadelphia's door, wanting to know how the City of Brotherly Love launched a wireless network for businesses and citizens.
RS Information Systems Inc. has captured one of the first information services jobs for a young federal tax agency, winning a contract valued at nearly $50 million to provide technology support services to the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
As the federal telework initiative gains momentum, small and midsize vendors will have more opportunities to offer related products and services to the government, industry professionals said.
The General Services Administration today released the requests for proposals for Networx, its 10-year, $20 billion telecommunications program. Responses are due in early August.
Verizon Communications Inc. emerged as the winner yesterday with a revised $8.5 billion bid in a crushing 11-week battle with Qwest Communications International Inc. for long-distance company MCI Inc.
Corporate chief executives must take individual and collective responsibility for the nation's cybersecurity, but they may need more management tools to do that effectively.
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) urged the head of the General Services Administration today to review acquisitions that may overlap with the agency's $20 billion Networx telecommunications procurement, fearing that GSA does not have the resources to manage simultaneously all the programs.
Conventional wisdom asserts that state and local government is a market of niches. Among the more obvious ones are technology niches (data vs. voice), political niches (red states vs. blue states), policy niches (pro-outsourcing vs. anti-outsourcing) and market niches based on government programs (food stamps vs. emergency response).
Systems integrators and IT companies that want to keep abreast of the latest trends and innovations in state and local contracting need look no further than midsize states.
E-government initiatives have been effective for transforming government service but have failed to bring about the much ballyhooed re-invention, said Martin Cole, chief executive of the global government group at Accenture Ltd., at the FOSE 2005 trade show, produced by PostNewsweek Tech Media, publisher of Washington Technology.
The Homeland Security Department soon will consolidate the e-mail systems of its 22 agencies, and it should surprise no one that Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook e-mail application is way ahead in the competition before it even begins.
Homeland Security Department Chief Information Officer Steve Cooper's announcement last month that his agency is collaborating with the Justice Department on a national data-sharing model may have had a familiar ring.
