HUD seeks modernized financial-management system

The Housing and Urban Development Department is conducting a public-private competition for system integration and hosting at a shared-services center for the HUD Integrated Financial Management Improvement Project.

National Recreation Reservation System contract to move ahead

Recreation enthusiasts should be able to start using federal consolidated reservation services now that a bidder has settled the legal argument over the National Recreation Reservation System contract.

IRS' maps out IT modernization

The IRS announced Tuesday that the agency will implement its Business Systems Modernization in smaller increments and in a more unified strategy.

GAO: TWIC pilot falls short in tests

A test of the Homeland Security Department's secure identification card revealed major gaps.

Maxamine wins Treasury Web site analytics contract

Maxamine Inc. will provide analytic software to the Treasury Department's Federal Consulting Group to improve government Web site quality and compliance.

Deloitte wins Education Dept.'s migrant data contract

Deloitte Consulting LLP of Reston, Va., has been awarded a $14 million contract from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a migrant student information exchange.

Transparency in health IT pursued by HHS

In an effort to make health care quality and prices more transparent, HHS is seeking the help of physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, employers and consumers for a new health IT initiative.

Corporations embrace tax e-filing

More than 12,500 of the nation's largest corporations have electronically filed their 2005 corporate tax returns, the IRS said.

Stolen Unisys PC containing VA data recovered

Khalil Abdullah-Raheem, who worked for a company that provides temporary labor to Unisys, was arrested and charged yesterday with theft of government property.

Perot Systems wins Education student aid contract

Perot Systems Corp. of Plano, Texas, has won a $17.4 million contract from the Education Department for systems development, operations and maintenance for an integrated partner management system for the Office of Federal Student Aid.

IRS seeks mainframe support

The IRS is seeking maintenance, support and software services for its IBM mainframe systems.

HUD plans integrated financial-management system

The Housing and Urban Development plans to seek enterprisewide implementation and integration of the PeopleSoft financial-management system as part of the agency's accounting and financial modernization.

GSA seeks 100,000 PIV-II cards

The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service seeks proposals for vendors to produce 100,000 personal identity smart cards as part of the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 on behalf of the Social Security Administration.

SEC wants prototypes to access XBRL documents

The Securities and Exchange Commission seeks proposals for a prototype system that will provide a user-friendly environment in which to access documents written in Extensible Business Reporting Language and submitted to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval.

Systems Made Simple to encrypt VA computers

Systems Made Simple Inc. of Syracuse, N.Y., has been awarded a $3.7 million contract from the Veterans Affairs Department to assist the VA in upgrading all department computers with enhanced data security encryption systems to protect sensitive data on veterans.

SAIC harvests GSA crop insurance support deal

Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego has been awarded a $121 million task order from the General Services Administration for IT support services for the Agriculture Department to improve USDA's national crop insurance program.

ID Analytics to assist VA with analysis of breached data

Risk management vendor ID Analytics Inc. has been awarded a contract from the Veterans Affairs Department to provide data breach analysis to ensure that information contained on stolen computer equipment was not compromised.

Computer stolen from VA subcontractor Unisys

<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font>The Veterans Affairs Department today announced that Unisys Corp. had informed VA that a desktop computer containing sensitive personal information of veterans is missing from the company's offices.

SunGard software to support Treasury financial management

SunGard Investment Systems Inc. has won a $13 million contract from the Treasury Department to provide investment accounting software and support services to the Office of Public Debt Accounting.

GAO: Grants.gov needs to streamline, simplify

Grants.gov continues to demonstrate a lack of standardization and inefficiencies in grant administration across federal agencies and difficulties with implementing its Web portal, the Government Accountability Office said in a report.