GSA Issues Quote Request for Microsoft Purchases
GSA has announced a request for quotation as part of the agency’s Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative, under the SmartBUY Large …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersIRS Paying to Maintain Retired IT Hardware in Some Cases, IG Says
The IRS spent $47.8 million for hardware maintenance contracts in fiscal 2012 but in some cases maintenance payments were made …More
FAA Releases First Integration Plan for Drone Use
The FAA has announced a first annual roadmap outlining efforts needed to integrate unmanned aircraft systems into the nation’s airspace, …More
Plans Detail Research and Development Focus
According to the roadmap, research and development efforts with industry are helping to establish performance limits in the airspace system …More
CMS Launches Data Sharing Platform
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has launched a platform enabling researchers to access its large store of digital …More
GAO: IT Development Demands Updated Consumer Privacy Framework
Evolving technology in the marketplace demands an update to the loose set of rules that attempt to control how personal …More
GSA Soliciting Proposals to Test Green Building Technologies
GSA has issued a request for information on innovative, transformational green building technologies that have the potential to improve theeconomic …More
Main Contractor for HealthCare.gov Also Working on Sunshine Website
The prime contractor for the project to build HealthCare.gov, CGI Federal, is also working on building a website that will …More
Report: Agencies Will Continue Looking to Cloud Solutions
Deltek, a research and software company serving federal contractors, has estimated that the federal government will increase spending on tailored …More
GAO: Further Action Needed to Achieve IT Portfolio Savings
OMB should require agencies to disclose the extent to which their CIOs have the ability to carry out the recommended …More
GPO Publishes Audio Book
The Government Printing Office has announced the availability of an audio book available for the first time on the agency’s …More
GAO Calls for Stronger Oversight of IT Operations and Maintenance
Of the 10 largest IT operations and maintenance investments in fiscal 2012, just one underwent an operational analysis to ensure …More
GSA Closed 37 Data Centers in 2013
GSA has announced it closed 37 non-core data centers in the past fiscal year as part of an OMB government-wide …More
TIGTA Lauds Transition to IT Asset Management System, but Faults Controls
The IRS’s Service Asset and Configuration Management – SACM, organization successfully imported data from its legacy IT asset management system …More
DHS Awards Remote Sensing Contract
DHS has awarded a contract for remote sensing technology to Aero-Metric to aid in incident management. Aero-Metric, which is owned …More
GAO Cites Challenges and Benefits of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication
The development of vehicle-to-vehicle – V2V, technologies has progressed to the point of real world testing, and if broadly deployed …More
White House Still Mum on Number of Enrollments Through HealthCare.gov
Figures have yet to be released on the number of health insurance enrollments through HealthCare.gov even as it has emerged …More
Test Early, Test Often: Engineers Join Tech Surge
The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services has announced the addition of engineers from Google, Red Hat and Oracle to …More
GSA to Weigh Alternative Fuel Use in Award of Package Delivery Contracts
GSA has proposed that in 2014 vendors competing for the federal government’s $1.5 billion package delivery services contract be assessed …More
Mars Curiosity Rover Team Lead Given Sammie Medal
David Lavery, a program executive for solar system exploration on NASA’s Mars science lab teamand the team leader for the …More
CRS: $70 Billion Budget for Climate Related Activities From 2008 – 2012
OMB and agencies have identified about $70 billion available from fiscal 2008 – 2012 for climate change related activities, with …More
IG: SSA Scanning Tool Unable to Provide Sufficient Hardware Identification
The Social Security Administration has a process to identify hardware devices connected to its network, but the network scanning tool …More
NIST Releases Cyber Security Framework
The Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a preliminary cyber security framework designed to help …More
ThinkB!G Awarded Contract to Provide Technology Training Services
GSA has awarded ThinkB!G– a technology training solutions provider – an IT schedule 70 contract for Adobe authorized certification training …More
Microsoft Announces Dedicated Cloud for Government Customers
Microsoft has announced a new enterprise products including Windows Azure US Government Cloud that is says is designed to help …More
HS Announces “Tech Surge” to Triage HealthCare.gov Debacle
The Department of Health and Human Services has acknowledged technical glitches and problems with the main federal portal designed to …More
Report: FISMA Alone Insufficient to Drive Cyber Security
Just half of 203 federal cyber security professionals surveyed in July by MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving government …More
Suggests Overly Bureaucratic Approach to Cyber Security
Survey respondents want budgets for better and faster equipment and to see a shift in focus from FISMA compliance toward …More
CMS Needs IT Solution to Remove SSNs from Medicare Cards, GAO Says
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has not taken needed steps such as designating a business owner and deciding …More
Booz Allen Awarded $413 Million Task Order Under GSA Alliant Contract
Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services, LLC, has been awarded a $413 million task order under the GSA Alliant government-wide acquisition …More
