People

Evans to lead SmartBuy advance

OMB's e-government boss promises an action plan by the end of next month.

Acquisition

Sandia buys switches for supercomputer

Sandia National Laboratories bought 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches from Foundry.

People

Army awards ITES contracts

The Army awarded five contracts Oct. 22 in the second part of the $500 million Information Technology Enterprise Solutions program.

People

Entrust to provide PKI for FBI

Northrop Grumman chose Entrust to provide public-key infrastructure protection for FBI systems.

People

Small biz feels shut out of DHS

Entrepreneurs tell a House subcommittee that small businesses are finding it hard to do business with the Homeland Security Department.

Acquisition

General Dynamics wins GIS deal

The company will provide geographic information services for the Forest Service.

People

SpecOps doles out optical tag contracts

U.S. Special Operations Command awarded four R&D contracts worth $57.8 million to develop small, thin, long-range optical retroreflecting tags.

Modernization

Networx RFI issued

The Federal Technology Service wants comments on its proposed replacement for FTS 2001.

People

CSC lands $88 million contract

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau hired the company for system maintenance and operations support.

People

SPIRIT to move DHS contracts

The $10 billion SPIRIT procurement vehicle will award contracts in four performance areas for the Homeland Security Department.

Modernization

Datatrac to run FBI call centers

The bureau awarded Datatrac Information Services a $48 million contract to manage two background check call centers.

Acquisition

McDonald Bradley added as Concorde vendor

The Drug Enforcement Administration awarded the company a deal worth up to $11.2 million to compete for task orders on the Concorde modernization.

People

Defense launches 12 pilots

The military hopes to speed up its net-centric transformation.

People

Lee to head Iraq buys

Procurement chief to help coalition council navigate procurement complexities

Acquisition

Agencies still going slowly on performance contracting

Mather: Concept encounters 'capital-C cultural change'

Acquisition

See you in court

Aronie: Companies are too hesitant to turn to the courts or the general accounting office to protect their rights

Acquisition

OMB reports progress with competition goals

A Bush administration report designed to promote its competitive sourcing initiative shows that controversy over the initiative is not likely to fade

People

EPA taps vendor for E-gov portal

Lockheed Martin won the $98 million contract to work on E-Rulemaking.

People

GSA launches purchase data system

The new Federal Procurement Data System is up and running after just five months of development.

Acquisition

NASA awards $2 billion in contracts

The space agency announced the winners of three deals.