The General Services Administration today released two draft requests for proposals for its $10 billion Networx telecommunications governmentwide acquisition contract.
The Army is developing requirements for the IT Enterprise Solutions-2 Services contract and expects to release a request for information next month on the billion-dollar program.
The benefits of document management software are well known: It improves workflow, increases productivity and enhances collaboration inside government agencies. Where system integrators can add value is in extending document management beyond an agency's walls to include other agencies or outside contractors.
The Air Force seeks information for a treasury management system solution. The in-house banking solution will provide user-defined business rules and features for account reporting and reconciliation. Some of these functions include balance and detail reporting, cash concentration, check issue and pay reconciliation, bank and virtual account reconciliation, worksheet modeling and Automated Clearing House fund and wire transfers. The system must run on the Windows 2000 server operating system.
The successor to the 802.11g wireless networking standard won't be finalized for almost two years, but the Wi-Fi Alliance isn't taking any chances. It's message: Any vendor claiming to use next-generation 802.11n technology may be stripped of its Wi-Fi certification if the claim is made before the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers signs off on the new standard.
When Dawn Meyerriecks, then chief technology officer of the Defense Information Systems Agency, was briefing industry executives last summer on DISA's Network-Centric Enterprise Services initiative, she warned them that the Defense Department didn't want contractors to offer competing standards when proposing solutions.
Despite no change in strong business trends among the federal IT service companies over the past few quarters, investors have been driving stocks higher in the past couple of months.
Federal IT contractors are overwhelmingly supporting President Bush and other Republican candidates with their campaign contributions. That's the most obvious conclusion from our exclusive pre-election report, "The Money Trail." Analyzing data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Washington Technology tracks where the Top 100 federal IT contractors are putting their political capital.
The Software Productivity Consortium hosted a reception forits members and affiliates Sept. 21 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the latest addition to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.
Federal, state and local governments often have discrete GIS groups working on task-specific GIS initiatives. But as geospatial data becomes increasingly important to all types of agencies, integrators are called on to marry disparate GIS projects and build applications that take advantage of unified geospatial information.
Lockheed Martin Corp. beat a pair of telecom giants to win the U. S. Postal Service's $3 billion contract to provide telecommunications infrastructure services.
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency wants proposals for a feasibility study to help BH Telecom, Bosnia and Herzegovina's largest state-owned telecom provider, evaluate deploying a nationwide Wi-Fi network.
During a Baltimore conference last summer of 1,000 Homeland Security Department workers, Robert West, the agency's chief information security officer, made the rounds at an after-hours social event.
The General Services Administration still needs to work on the Networx telecommunications contract to address concerns being raised by the Government Accountability Office, the watchdog agency said.
The General Services Administration still needs to work on the Networx telecommunications contract to address concerns being raised by the Government Accountability Office, the watchdog agency said.
