By midday Feb. 21, recruiter Tammy Heller had interviewed eight people via phone for jobs at KPMG Consulting Inc. of McLean, Va., and noticed that half of them were coming from dot-coms.
Covansys announced today it won a $22 million, two-year contract from Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration to maintain and enhance statewide child support information and disbursement system. The contract also has an option for a two-year renewal.
Eighty-one percent of college students think they will accomplish their career goals in 10 years or less, and 48 percent think they'll do so in five years or less, according to a survey released in January by Los Angeles-based JOBTRAK.COM, an online job site for students and alumni.
Several major federal agencies are delaying the so-called blacklisting rules that give contracting officers broad power to decide whether contractors are qualified to bid on government contracts.
Officials at startup company Virtual Compliance Inc. say that unlike many Internet-based businesses, theirs solves a real problem: how to comply with federal regulations.
When Matt Calderone accepted a job with McLean, Va., consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc., he didn't expect his first assignment to be captured on film.
The United Kingdom won't meet its goal of delivering all government services to citizens and businesses electronically by 2005, according to a recent report by Forrester Research Inc.
Personic Inc., a Brisbane, Calif., provider of recruiting software and services, today announced it has been placed on the General Services Administration schedule. Getting on the schedule makes Personic a preferred vendor for government agencies and streamlines the contracting process.
Science Applications International Corp. won a five year, $23 million contract to perform software independent verification and validation for NASA's Goddard Software IV&V Facility in Fairmont, W. Va.
BTG Inc. has entered into a partnership and invested in DOAR Communications Inc., a provider of technology-based systems and services for the judicial court, litigation and alternative dispute resolution markets.
Government and industry representatives today released a report calling on federal agencies to beef up information security as they move government information and services to the Web.
When technical recruiter Shoma Bhowmik went looking for a new job, she turned to the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers," published annually by <I>Working Mother</I> magazine.
Provant Inc. won a five-year, $170 million contract from the Department of Treasury to provide training services aimed at enhancing work force productivity and effectiveness.
RS Information Systems Inc. won $3 million contract to provide project monitoring, tracking and reporting for the Internal Revenue Service's Information Services Enterprise Operations.
Computer Sciences Corp. won a NASA task order to support its Center for Computational Sciences at Goddard Space Flight Center. The task order is worth up to $144 million.
The departments of Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs have auctioned 110,000 foreclosed homes in the last year using Internet and telecommunications technologies, according to Tower Communications, the company that built the system.
Private-sector contractors doing business with the Department of Defense can now access their past performance report cards through the department's Past Performance Automated Information System.
Beyond.com and PlanetGov Inc. have been awarded a $15 million renewal of their contract with the Internal Revenue Service for electronic delivery and maintenance of Microsoft software to approximately 130,000 desktop computers within the IRS.
Getronics Government Solutions LLC, formerly Wang Government Services Inc., today announced a reorganization that includes the addition of a chief technology officer position and the layoff of about 50 employees.
