Acquisition
GAO guides Coast Guard on IT
The Coast Guard needs to work harder to execute the policies and procedures it sets for managing its IT acquisitions and programs
Acquisition
Qwest protests bridge contracts
Qwest has filed a protest with GSA, claiming that FTS 2000/2001 bridge contracts awarded to AT?#038; Amp;T and Sprint Corp. were not contested fairly
Digital Government
FAA to share modernization costs
The Federal Aviation Administration has offered to pay up to $15 million of the cost of new equipment at 10 airports in a pilot program to speed modernization of air traffic control
Digital Government
New product grants agencies' wish
The FreeBalance eGrants system is designed to help meet a requirement that agencies automate financial assistance and grants systems by May 2001
People
Lockheed wins DOD network deal
Lockheed Martin Information Support Services will manage the Pentagon's communications backbone during a major network upgrade
Digital Government
NSF security advice hits home
NSF employees received expert advice on securing their home computers at the agency's first Computer Security Awareness Day
Modernization
Sprint adds PCS to GSA sked
Sprint has added PCS handsets to its list of telecommunications offerings available through Sprint's GSA schedule contract
Modernization
Field set for FAA scrimmage
Telecom bid review to include information-security concerns
Modernization
27 agencies miss FTS 2001 switchover
Two days past the deadline for switching to the FTS 2001 telecommunications contract, 27 agencies out of the 146 making the transition from FTS 2000 told the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service that they had not completed the switch.
Digital Government
Reshaped Litton group eyes dividends
The reorganization of Litton Industries Inc.'s Information Systems Group into four separate divisions will position the company to move more quickly on new business and to grow internally and through acquisitions
Digital Government
GAO raps FAA security
The General Accounting Office pressed the Federal Aviation Administration last week to clean up its computer security with a report detailing recommendations and pushing a response from the agency on actions it has taken.
Digital Government
Unisys puzzles over federal future
Unisys is contemplating whether to sell its federal business or reinvent it as a billiondollar unit focused on ebusiness
Digital Government
GAO urges response on FAA security
GAO followed up on criticisms of FAA computer security with a report soliciting a response from the agency on corrective actions
Digital Government
Litton PRC divided in reorganization
Litton PRC Inc. will be split into three divisions as part of Litton Industries Inc.'s reorganization of its information systems group
Modernization
GSA grants FTS 2000 extensions
Extensions to the FTS 2000 telecom contracts will give agencies several more months to finish moving services to the FTS 2001 contract
Digital Government
Partnership beefs up AMS e-gov
AMS will be able to integrate egovernment solutions more efficiently through an expanded partnership with webMethods Inc.
Acquisition
Open minds on open source
NASA programmers might raise a few eyebrows by converting their electronic posting system for business opportunities from an Oracle Corp. relational database to an open source counterpart, mySQL.
Modernization
A telecom shootout
Telecommunications carriers' latest efforts to begin offering Internet-based data services could threaten territory typically dominated by systems integrators, according to a telecom analyst.
Digital Government
Keeping ERP on the QT
You won't hear many companies talk about enterprise resource planning anymore.
People
FAA unveils two Web sites to aid travelers
The aviation agency has launched two Web sites that provide travelers with delay and safety information
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