Just two weeks before Sept. 11, a team of employees from SRA International Inc. handed over control to the Navy of a command center the team had built.
Information technology can play a key role in facilitating information sharing and goal setting in the forthcoming Department of Homeland Security, General Accounting Office officials have told Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.
TRW Inc. has won a contract to build the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, the United States' next-generation meteorological satellite system.
The Fairfax, Va., County Chamber of Commerce is urging Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to reconsider a plan to restrict any new defense-related construction, leasing or facility improvements to an area outside a 100-mile zone around Washington.
Only 12.8 percent include e-commerce applications, and only 8.8 percent offer direct links to e-government services, according to a survey of 148 federal Web sites.
The General Services Administration's revamped e-Buy procurement portal is being touted by both federal buyers and their suppliers as an effective tool for increasing competition and making the buying process more efficient.
The Senate's 2003 Defense authorization bill has raised objections from technology industry representatives to provisions that would significantly change how the Defense Department purchases professional services.
The General Services Administration has awarded a one-year, $1.9 million contract to AT&T Corp.'s Government Solutions division to provide Web hosting and security services for FirstGov.gov.
Anteon International Corp. it won a five-year contract, valued at $10.8 million, to provide information technology support services for the Army Network Engineering and Telecommunications Activity.
Vance Coffman, chief executive officer and chairman of Lockheed Martin Corp., has been named chairman of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Four companies ? B2E Markets Inc., Computer Information Specialist Inc., Orbis Online Inc. and NB Ventures Global eProcure ? have won a General Services Administration contract to conduct online reverse auctions for federal agencies.
The Bush administration's effort to increase the number of public-private competitions could be derailed under legislation recently passed by the House.
<FONT SIZE=2>	The House bill setting up the new Department of Homeland Security, H.R. 5005, includes several key technology provisions. One offers antitrust, civil liability and Freedom of Information Act exemptions to companies or individuals who voluntarily provide ordinarily private information about threats, vulnerabilities and intrusions upon the nation's critical infrastructure. </FONT>
The Office of Management and Budget's e-government management team met July 16 met with the Washington Technology and Government Computer News editorial staffs to discuss the administration's e-gov progress and what the future holds. Participating OMB staff members included Mark Forman, associate director of OMB for information technology and e-government.
<FONT SIZE=2>	A draft of a new version of OMB's A-76 circular is almost complete, Angela Styles, administrator of OMB's Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said recently at a congressional hearing.</FONT>
