Unisys Corp. won a five-year blanket task order worth up to $345 million from the Defense Department's Counterintelligence Field Activity, officials of the company said today. Unisys' first job under the task order is worth about $11 million.
Computer Sciences Corp. created a Global Security Solutions organization to bring together its Global Information Security Services unit and the security capabilities of DynCorp, the Reston, Va., company that CSC bought last year for about $930 million.
American Management Systems Inc. of Fairfax, Va., won a $24 million order from the Justice Department for its Momentum enterprise resource planning software, company officials said today.
More than $115 billion in federal information technology contracts were awarded in 2003, according to Reston, Va., IT market research firm Input Inc. The Defense Department's more than $83 billion in contract awards dwarfed the civilian agencies' $32 billion in contract awards.
The House Government Reform and Small Business committees have negotiated changes to several procurement provisions of legislation that reauthorizes the Small Business Administration, said Government Reform Chairman Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.).
The chairman of the House Government Reform Committee is calling for hearings to examine whether the current pace of consolidation among federal IT services contractors undermines the long-term health of the industry.
Human error is the primary cause of IT security breaches, not technology, according to an annual survey published today by the Computing Technology Industry Association.
State and local governments have not bought electronic voting systems because they can't afford to and because they fear buying a system that won't meet future mandates, but security concerns haven't been a deterrent.
The House Government Reform Committee plans to hold hearings about the effects of mergers and acquisitions among federal IT contractors, Rep. Tom Davis said today.
The House Government Reform and Small Business committees have negotiated changes to several procurement provisions of legislation that reauthorizes the Small Business Administration.
The SBA has proposed to cut the number of small-business size standards, used in loan programs, contracts set asides and other federal business-development programs.
The Labor Department plans to upgrade its electronic filing system for annual reports on employee benefit plans and is asking for comments. The department receives about 1.4 million annual reports each year.
Private-sector cybersecurity experts are calling for creation of an early warning alert network to generate and share information needed to dispel cyberattacks.
Oscar Morales likes to compare the early days of the federal e-rulemaking initiative to early use of online tax filing. The IRS' offering was slow to gain acceptance; now it is a time-saving tool used by millions of people and businesses.
