Acquisition

OMB picks finance chief

President Bush will nominate Mark Everson to oversee the administration's goal of improving agencies' use of financial information, White House officials said July 17.

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DEA picks PEC for intranet work

Contract wins are latest for PEC Solutions on the agency's Firebird intranet

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Minnesota tests reverse auctions

The state is sampling online auction companies to see which will ease its purchasing of goods

Acquisition

HUD picks TRW for grant tracking

TRW wins contract to build a software system to help HUD track more than $26 billion in grants

Acquisition

Lockheed protest upheld

GAO has upheld a protest by Lockheed Martin Systems Integration regarding a contract to upgrade software on military helicopters.

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ITOP contract draws scrutiny

House panel is concerned that agencies could use the DOT contract to evade oversight

People

NMCI network center opens

Fortified Norfolk base building serves as EDS' first NMCI network operations center

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OMB seeks budget system upgrade

OMB calls for proposals to improve the systems that handle the government's budget process

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Focus on competing widens

OMB proposal eyes older interagency service deals

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Agencies may face competition

Federal Register notice proposes that contracts among agencies become open to competition

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HUD drawing up IT overhaul

HUD Information Technology Services would be a 10-year contract worth at least $500 million

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Would outsourcing weaken DISN?

Manager says vendor could not enable 'surge capabilities' to give certain users network priority

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USPS preps $1 billion deal

Vendor sought for second-generation contract to supply computers, storage, software, support

People

Search on for search engine

FirstGov has begun searching for a new search engine.

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The ITS waltz

Projects requiring federal and state governments to work together often take years to bring to fruition, and public projects that depend on industry support sometimes never materialize. So it's easy to understand why the concept of intelligent transportation systems, which is a threeway dance, has not lived up to expectations.

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OMB to broaden competition

Agreements between agencies to become open to public/private competition

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Learning the value of sharing

I am information technology director for a suburb of Washington, D.C., where I can see the impact municipalities have on society

Modernization

FTS 2001 competitors briefed

GSA gives guidance to companies wanting to join Sprint and WorldCom as contractholders

People

Navy systems management 'alarming'

Intrusions are on the rise, and officials are blaming poor systems management, but NMCI may help

Acquisition

IRS picks Dynamics Research

Dynamics Research Corp. will continue work on the IRS' integrated collections systems