Jane Lopez used to spend a lot of money shipping federal grant applications overnight and making multiple paper copies of them. Lopez cut those costs in December when she submitted an application to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and became the first to submit an application through the governmentwide grant application portal, Grants.gov.
The White House has identified 18 agencies that will not receive funding to upgrade their information technology systems until they fix security problems. "Agencies need to secure what they have," not layer new projects on top of vulnerable IT infrastructures, said <b>Karen Evans</b>, administrator for IT and e-government in the Office of Management and Budget.
The federal government needs to take four steps to dramatically speed and improve the security clearance process, a coalition of technology trade groups said today.
CACI International Inc. won a contract from the Naval Air Systems Command to support naval aviation manpower, readiness, and training services at a division in Patuxent River, Md.
As membership director for the Tower Club, Ardell Fleeson is the consummate schmoozer. Her job is to help business executives make connections at the Vienna, Va.-business club, one of the prime meeting places for the Washington area's high-tech movers and shakers. Staff Writer Gail Repsher Emery asked Fleeson her tips for networking and making introductions.
The Share-in-Savings Program Office at the General Services Administration has developed two tools to evaluate projects for use with share-in-savings contracting, said Ken Buck, director of the office.
Share-in-savings contracts are appropriate for several types of IT work, industry and government officials said, including system or infrastructure consolidation and revenue collection.
Technical and Management Services Corp. won a contract worth up to $51.9 million to support the Coalition Provisional Authority, the temporary governing body of Iraq.
President Bush's lower-than-expected request for technology spending in 2005 has put contractors on notice that the government market will become even more competitive in the months ahead. The president's $59.8 billion budget request for information technology is up just $671 million from his request of $59.1 billion for 2004, a 1 percent increase. The White House released the fiscal 2005 request Feb. 2.
Federal procurement officials are poised to issue new guidelines that could give share-in-savings contracting the boost it needs for wider use in the federal government.
Some companies get how to sell to the federal government. Some don't. "They don't help me understand how they can solve the business problems the department has," said <b>Mike Sade</b>, senior procurement executive at the Commerce Department. Those that get it, Sade said, have embraced the procurement reforms now guiding federal agencies. Washington Technology talked to companies at the top of their game in connecting with government and found out how they do it.
NCI Information Systems Inc. of Reston, Va., won a three-year, $4.3 million contract from the Air Force for aircraft maintenance intuitive troubleshooting, company officials announced today.
The General Services Administration is proposing to bolster President Bush's $5 million e-government fund request in the fiscal 2005 budget with $40 million in fees collected from agencies that buy products and services off of GSA's purchasing vehicles.
