Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has been hired by the Military Health System to help about 130,000 health care providers comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
The Army will submit the latest version of its Future Combat Systems program to the Defense Acquisition Board for formal approval to move from the planning phase into development and demonstration. And a report says the operating system for computers in the program will be Linux.
The Defense Department will unveil its long awaited financial management enterprise architecture on Friday, providing a map for trimming and consolidating more than 2,100 financial systems.
Bantu Inc. of Washington won an Air Force deal to sell the service an enterprise license for the Bantu Instant Messaging and Presence Platform. The instant-messaging application lets users build buddy lists and communicate instantaneously with other users online.
SRA International Inc. of Fairfax, Va., today was awarded a $115 million competitive task order from the National Guard Bureau for a range of advanced IT products and services for five years.
The Navy's new guide for establishing a Navy-Marine Corps Portal says the new portal must be capable of integrating and viewing data using commercial standards for Web services as specified by the service's chief information officer.
The Air Force has had such poor luck running OMB A-76 competitions to outsource IT that the service no longer considers use of A-76 beneficial, the service's CIO said today.
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency is increasingly relying on contractors to supply both employees and technology, its director, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr., said today.
The Defense Department has given the Navy the green light to cut over 100,000 computer seats to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, marking a major advance for prime contractor Electronic Data System Corp. and the $6.9 billion outsourcing program.
The Navy is aiming to complete testing of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet by the end of April and receive permission from the Defense Department to add 100,000 more seats to the program.
