Opinion

Can an Agile mindset save you from the LPTA trap?

The Agile methodology can create a closer partnership with customers and increase the likelihood of success but it can also help your solutions stand out as exceptional in a low-price, technically acceptable world.

  • By Lisa Mascolo

NetCents protests keep rolling in

The number of protests against the Air Force's NetCents 2 Products contract awards has grown to 10, with more potentially on the way. Can the contract survive, or is this $6.9 billion contract headed for a crash landing?

  • By Nick Wakeman
Opinion

Time to embrace Agile and beyond

The benefits of Agile development are immediate and obvious but to reap its real value contractors and customers have to embrace flexible architectures and processes including procurement and program management.

  • By Jason Bloomberg

NetCents redo hit with wave of protests

Five companies have filed protests over the second round of award decisions in the $6.9 billion NetCents Products contract. The question remains whether the Air Force corrected its mistakes between round 1 and 2, or are more troubles on the way..

  • By Nick Wakeman

CACI wins $54M contract to modernize diplomatic security systems

CACI International has won a Development, Modernization and Enhancement contract to modernize diplomatic security systems for the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security.

  • By Mark Hoover

Lockheed wins $166.8M NASA contract extension

Lockheed Martin wins a $166.8 million contract extenstion to continue providing mission support services to NASA's manned spaceflight program. Extension boosts value of the contract to $1 billion.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Raytheon nabs $12.7M delivery order for joint standoff weapon integration

Raytheon Co. has won a contract with the U.S. Navy to integrate a joint standoff weapon into an aircraft's operational flight program software.

  • By Mark Hoover

U.S. courts release $95M Dell product contract

The U.S. courts plan to buy nearly $100 million in Dell products over the next five years, and has released a solicitation that will go to a single Dell Federal Premier Partner.

  • By Nick Wakeman

DHS develops ID management contract

The Homeland Security Department is developing a contract for an identity management system that will issue 300,000 ID cards

  • By Nick Wakeman

PowerPoint and a new generation of visual learners

Steve Kelman learns a few things about the power of images.

  • By Steve Kelman

Google turns off tool for searching government sites

Google has stopped operating several specialized search tools, including the Google.com/UncleSam search engine of government-related Web sites.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

FBI Sentinel a test for agile development

If the effort works, the federal IT community should think about how to make agile a more common approach in government, writes blogger Steve Kelman.

How much fun and games do federal websites need?

Are flashy interactive features really necessary for a government website to be considered "good?"

Medical marijuana creates budding business opportunity

The legal pot industry has prompted small businesses to roll out new software to meet its growing needs.

  • By GCN Staff

Microsoft names next-gen Dynamics AX ERP solution

Microsoft announced the formal product name of its next-generation Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning solution at the Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference this week.

  • By Kurt Mackie

PowerPoint: Your guide to loving it, hating it or leaving it

FCW cartoonist and blogger John Klossner provides some handy tips for loving PowerPoint -- or for getting more time to spend with your family.

  • By John Klossner

Ozzie lays out 'post-PC world'

Ray Ozzie, renown for jumpstarting Microsoft's move to the Internet cloud, described a new vision for the company in a "post-PC world."

  • By Kurt Mackie

'War consists largely of endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides'

An Army Reserve colonel in Afghanistan is fired after writing a column slamming the military's use of PowerPoint, saying days are spent preparing, presenting and viewing slide shows.

  • By Kevin McCaney

'War consists largely of endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides'

An Army Reserve colonel in Afghanistan is fired after writing a column slamming the military's use of PowerPoint, saying days are spent preparing, presenting and viewing slide shows.

  • By Kevin McCaney

USDA, Marines replace SAP in isolated organizations

The Agriculture Department and the Marine Corps, citing cost, incompatibility and other issues, are replacing their SAP software with another vendor’s in specific divisions.

  • By Kathleen Hickey
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