Industry
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The Pentagon\'s acquisition chief said Wednesday that Defense leaders would \"undoubtedly\" cut more major weapons systems, possibly as soon as next year. But undersecretary of Defense Ashton Carter said there were more savings to be found in other areas of the Defense Department budget. Major weapons procurement makes up only one seventh of DoD\'s spending.
April 20, 2011 -
Microsoft makes court documents public as part of battle to provide cloud services to the Interior Department. Google contends its Google Apps for Government offers more security than FISMA requires.
April 12, 2011 -
Host Mark Amtower discusses a wide variety of issues with Washington Technology editor-in-chief Nick Wakeman and Lohfeld Consulting Group CEO Bob Lohfeld. April 11, 2011 (Encore presentation April 25, 2011)
April 11, 2011 -
A survey from Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum finds more than half of their respondents will conduct business as usual if the agencies stop working.
April 08, 2011 -
Stan Soloway, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, explains to what extent industry would hurt from a partial government shutdown.
April 08, 2011 -
TRICARE, the Defense Department\'s managed healthcare organization, said Thursday that it will reevaluate a multibillion dollar award to administer health insurance services for military members in one of its three U.S. regions.
April 08, 2011 -
The Homeland Security Department\'s chief management officer said Tuesday that the lack of a departmentwide financial management system is a huge deficiency. Fixing that, he said, is among the department\'s primary management priorities.
April 06, 2011 -
SRA, an IT services and consulting company, is expected to be sold to a private equity firm for more than $1.8 billion.
April 01, 2011 -
This is the company\'s third acquisition in the federal business development market since 2009.
April 01, 2011 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded one of the remaining big deals under the Networx telecommunications contract to Qwest.
March 30, 2011 -
By Jason Miller Executive Editor Federal News Radio SAIC won its second contract under NASA’s multi-billion dollar Information Technology Infrastructure Integration Program (I3P). The space agency announced today that it awarded SAIC a contract to…
March 28, 2011 -
DoJ\'s ITSS-4 multiple award contract gives 20 companies the ability to bid on task orders to provide a variety of technology services.
March 22, 2011 -
Susan Lawrence, the Army\'s newly-appointed Chief Information Officer members of the IT and communications industry that the service is focused on creating an end-to-end IT infrastructure, eliminating structures that required soldiers to train and live on one network, and deploy on another.
March 21, 2011 -
Shay Assad, director of the office of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, told industry professionals Thursday that DoD would provide them with a clearer picture of what the Pentagon wants when it issues solicitations to industry. Past acquisition processes, he said, had forced vendors to guess what factors DoD thought were truly important.
March 18, 2011 -
The Defense Department is looking to standardize the procedures its components use in source selection under competitive acquisitions. New DoDwide procedures issued this month will take effect in July.
March 16, 2011