Northrop Grumman's Information Technology sector and BroadWare Technologies are forming a strategic alliance to deliver networked video applications for the defense, public safety and homeland security markets.
Lockheed Martin and Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network officials signed a memorandum of understanding to support the state's Procurement Technical Assistance Center.
The Bush administration Oct. 30 released its plan for unbundling large federal contracts, calling for increased accountability of high-level agency officials in eliminating unnecessary contract bundling and mitigating the effects of necessary bundling on small businesses. The new plan is part of the administration¡¦s strategy to give small businesses more opportunities to win federal work.
<FONT SIZE=2>Jack Battersby recently experienced an e-learning contract bidding process unlike any other. The State Department put his company, mGen Inc., and several others through three days of onsite product demonstrations, essentially allowing the agency's user community to test drive the software before making a buying decision.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>SCORM, or Sharable Content Object Reference Model, was developed by public- and private-sector organizations under the auspices of the Defense Department's Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative. The initiative began in 1997 to promote cooperation among government agencies, industry and academia to develop e-learning standardization.</FONT>
Three states that have eliminated or dramatically curtailed their civil service systems have reaped many benefits, including quicker hires, improved satisfaction with personnel administration and better-qualified applicants, according to a new grant report from the IBM Endowment for the Business of Government.
A protest filed by EER Systems Inc. of Chantilly, Va., about the Navy's award of a $154.4 million, contract to Veridian Corp. has been denied by the General Accounting Office, according to Veridian. A Veridian statement said company officials hope to begin work on the contract in January.
A protest filed by Science Applications International Corp. about the Navy's award of a $154.4 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to Veridian Corp. has been denied by the General Accounting Office.
A team led by Northrop Grumman Corp.'s information technology business won a six-year, $63.8 million contract option for a next-generation information system that will improve the ability to provide near real-time visibility of passengers and material moving through the Defense Transportation Systems.
Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego won a contract from the U.S. Customs Service to provide preventive and corrective maintenance and support for its Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System units throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
<FONT SIZE=2>Bill Nye, 46, has worked on flight control systems, designed equipment for oil slick skimming and a navigation system for jets. He has been a consulting engineer to the Justice Department and several firms. But he's not famous for his hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor, which is still flying on Boeing 747s. Rather, the bow-tie-wearing science enthusiast is best known for "Bill Nye the Science Guy," the long-running children's science television program on PBS. Nye spoke with </FONT><FONT SIZE=2>Washington Technology</FONT><FONT SIZE=2> Staff Writer Gail Repsher Emery about how he explains complicated subjects in simple terms and what can be done to get students more interested in science.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>When Dave Nelson joined NASA in 1999 as deputy chief information officer for information technology security, he knew the agency needed to improve its network security. But rather than take a scattershot approach to fixing the space agency's Internet vulnerabilities, Nelson's staff developed a list of about 50 top vulnerabilities to target first.</FONT>
The House version of the E-government Act of 2002, H.R. 2458, was approved by voice vote of the House Government Reform Committee Oct. 9. The bill, co-sponsored Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., codifies a new Office of E-government within the Office of Management and Budget and includes appropriations for an e-government fund that increase from $45 million in 2003 to $150 million in 2006.
The company will provide commercial product evaluation and implementation services to assist the Small Business Administration in developing a disaster credit management system.
