<FONT SIZE=2>	The Department of Defense and other agencies will surrender parts of their allotted airwaves for auction to commercial providers of third generation, or 3G, cellular telephone services, the Commerce Department announced. The cost of upgrading affected government radio systems to other frequencies is estimated to be $548 million. </FONT>
When it comes to implementing e-government, Des Vincent, chief information officer for Northern Ireland, faces a different challenge than CIOs in the United States. That's because the key e-gov tool for Northern Ireland citizens is not the Internet, but the telephone.
The July 15 article, "WorldCom's troubles jeopardize contracts," provides an excellent overview of why "nervous [federal] agencies are eyeing alternatives" if WorldCom's situation worsens. A related online article July 9, "DREN contract continues to haunt DISA," describes how the problems at WorldCom, as well as those at Global Crossing, have led to "the never-ending saga" of the efforts to re-award the $450 million Defense Research and Engineering Network contract.
Georgia will revise work requirements and seek new proposals for its major communications outsourcing project in response to the uncertain prospects of WorldCom Inc., state officials said.
Harris Corp. scored a major coup last month, besting both Lockheed Martin Corp. and incumbent WorldCom Inc. to win the Federal Aviation Administration's multibillion-dollar telecommunications infrastructure project, called FTI.
By filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection July 21, WorldCom Inc. may have temporarily fended off competitors who filed protests with the General Accounting Office over the Defense Information Systems Agency award of the $450 million Defense Research and Engineering Network contract.
WorldCom Inc.'s legal and financial woes are rippling through the government marketplace, sparking a review of the company's federal contracts and raising concerns about its ability to continue providing services.
Federal spending on telecommunications products and services will grow 8 percent annually from $10.8 billion in fiscal 2002 to $16.1 billion in 2007, according to estimates by Input Inc., a Chantilly, Va., market research firm.
Siemens Enterprise Networks found a winning strategy when it blended voice-over-Internet telephone service with standard circuit-switched equipment to provide the town of Burlington, Mass., with an 800-phone network.
After months of delay, the Defense Information Systems Agency on April 4 selected WorldCom Inc. for the 10-year, $450 million Defense Research and Engineering Network. Jerry Edgerton of Worldcom said the contract is one of the Pentagon's most valuable technologically-driven networking initiatives.
The standards board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association approved the communications "Bluetooth" specification for wireless personal area networks.
Later this month, the first salvo in a competition for government business will be fired, but it won't be contractors dueling for the latest federal opportunity. Instead, the General Services Administration will face off against GovWorks, the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service franchise fund.
Sprint Communications Corp. has put together a bundled offering of videoconferencing hardware and high-speed transport, combining elements of its General Services Administration schedule and its FTS2001 long distance services contract.
Sprint Communications Corp. has put together a bundled offering of videoconferencing hardware and high-speed transport, combining elements of its General Services Administration schedule and its FTS2001 long distance services contract.
It was while watching "The Perfect Storm" that Robert Bussabarger, network administrator for the city of Bend, Ore., became a true believer in Internet protocol-based telephony.
Armed with $3.4 million in federal funds, the 3-month-old nonprofit Telework Consortium in Herndon, Va., will demonstrate the benefits of teleworking, or working outside the office.
The General Services Administration, by putting a massive $35 billion ceiling on the Connections telecommunications program, has all but guaranteed that large numbers of systems integrators and telecom providers will vie for a spot on the new program.
