The General Services Administration is shopping for a contractor that has delivered a large-scale integrated biometric identity management system in the last three years to deploy its HSPD-12 initiative.
Secretary Mike Johanns alerted employees in the Washington area that a hacker broke into a database at headquarters and may have stolen the names, Social Security numbers and photos of about 26,000 current and former workers and contractors.
The Defense Department late last week officially extended its enterprise software agreement with Telos Corp. for two of its titles to the rest of the federal government, offering discounts between 5 percent and 40 percent off of the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service schedule.
The General Services Administration earlier this week announced they are close to an enterprisewide software deal with Telos Corp. of Ashburn, Va., for their information assurance and automated message handling system titles.
The General Services Administration has released the final request for information for Budget Formulation under the three new Lines of Businesses Consolidation initiative ? three business days before the industry day.
Vendors are asked to "describe solutions and implementation approaches for achieving the government's IT Infrastructure Optimization Initiative vision and goals through the development of common solutions integrated with the Federal Enterprise Architecture."
How cryptic is the mandate for federal agencies to transition their network backbones to Version 6 of the Internet Protocol by 2008? Walt Grabowski thinks it may be more cryptic than first thought.
Private-sector victories in some of the large competitions in 2005, including a 2,500-employee competition at the Federal Aviation Administration, likely contributed to the dip in the federal employee winning percentage last year.
The General Services Administration plans to release requests for information and hold industry days for the three news lines of business?IT infrastructure, geospatial and budget formulation?in mid-April.
Version 3.1 addresses architecture gaps between intragovernmental transactions and within environmental safety and occupational health from the earlier 3.0 version.
At first glance, the administration heralded its commitment to technology in the fiscal 2007 IT budget, raising the request by more than 2.8 percent over this year. But in a closer analysis of the numbers from agencies over the past month, the Office of Management and Budget revealed that the White House's IT request will increase by only 0.5 percent over 2006.
Booz Allen Hamilton, Grant Thorton, Performance Management Consulting Inc., SiloSmashers Inc. and Touchstone/SRA have been awarded a blanket purchase agreement to provide support for the Office of Management and Budget's Lines of Business consolidation initiatives.
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) said this week that the Treasury Department's insistence on going forward with its own contract instead of using a General Services Administration governmentwide vehicle "makes no sense."
Under President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget request submitted to Congress today, agencies would receive an IT budget of $64.2 billion?a 3 percent increase over fiscal 2006.
Information Sciences Corp., the incumbent vendor, is suing the General Services Administration over a contract the agency awarded to Symplicity Corp. last month.
