Federal government spending on information technology is expected to grow to $67.1 billion by fiscal 2008, an increase of $14 billion over planned 2003 spending, according to a new market forecast by the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association. The organization predicts that by 2008, spending on defense IT will hit $34 billion, up from a planned $26.6 billion in 2003. Spending by civilian agencies will reach $33.1 billion, up from $26.5 billion.
Northrop Grumman's acquisition of TRW remains on track after the 30-day antitrust waiting period imposed by the Justice Department ended at midnight the day before.
<font SIZE="2">Cybersecurity strategy</font><font SIZE="2">The White House Sept. 18 released a draftwith a 60-day comment period. The plan sets out security recommendations for home computerusers, businesses, industries and government agencies. The plan pushes the philosophy thatthe federal government cannot act alone in protecting against cyberattacks. </font>
The number and size of bundled contracts issued by federal agencies has reached a 10-year high, to the detriment of small business, according to a new report issued Oct. 2 by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Gerald P. "Geep" Fisher's reputation was already known to Chris Fisher when the couple met at a party in 1982. "He was the guy that threw a really great party at Thanksgiving," she said of her husband, a Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. employee who was killed when American Airlines Flight 77 flew into the Pentagon. "I wanted to get invited, so I introduced myself."
The Pentagon fires were still burning when Tom Buonforte and his team at General Dynamics Network Systems began sifting through the rubble, trying to figure out how they would rebuild the computer and telecommunications networks in the damaged wing.
The Office of Management and Budget has approved the $1 billion Transportation Security Administration contract award to Unisys Corp. for the company to build and maintain TSA's IT infrastructure.
The Office of Management and Budget has approved the $1 billion Transportation Security Administration contract award to Unisys Corp. for the company to build and maintain TSA's IT infrastructure. Approval from OMB came about 7:15 p.m. Aug. 13, TSA Chief Information Officer Patrick Schambach said at a Federal Sources Executive Breakfast Aug. 14. "I'm a happy man this morning," he said.
The Office of Management and Budget intends to temporarily freeze more information technology spending to eliminate redundant IT investments among federal agencies, according to a White House official.
More Office of Management and Budget memos are on the way that will temporarily freeze information technology spending, according to a White House official.
Focus groups, polling and listening to online feedback: Those are some of the ways the Canadian government keeps its award-winning Web sites relevant and useful to its citizens and businesses.
President Bush's proposed Homeland Security Department will rely heavily on data sharing and analysis to combat terrorist threats, and will require a systems infrastructure to support that mission -- a complex integration challenge that already has information technology companies scrambling for a piece of the action.
The Bush administration is working on e-gov-related homeland security initiatives that will concentrate on architecture and on beginning pilot projects that can push information integration. The architecture or foundation projects will look at the processes needed for sharing and analyzing information across agencies and between state, local and federal agencies, said Mark Forman of the Office of Management and Budget.
On March 12, Joseph Kampf stood at the podium of the New York Stock Exchange and prepared to ring the opening bell. His company, Anteon Corp., was about to go public, and to mark the occasion, Anteon had passed out 5,000 company hats to the traders and to the five-dozen employees who accompanied Kampf to New York.
The Navy's contract with Northrop Grumman Corp. and Raytheon Co. to develop the next-generation surface combat ship will push new technologies in command and control, communications, data sharing and surveillance and recognizance.
