Interior

A new regulation will bolster procurement for tribal businesses

The Interior Department’s final rule advances the president’s executive order on equity.

  • By Courtney Bublé

CenturyLink wins $1.6 billion telecom task order from Interior

After a protest from rival Verizon failed, CenturyLink emerged as the winner of the Interior Department's telecom modernization task order under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.

  • By Mark Rockwell

Former Interior official will direct B3’s federal business

New hire previously served as associate director of Interior Department’s Acquisition Services Directorate.

  • By David Hubler

Google scores Interior SaaS deal

The search giant gets another government cloud win.

  • By FCW Staff

Why contractors should pay attention to diversity and inclusion

On March 18, agencies need to file diversity and inclusion strategies. How long before they ask contractors for the same?

  • By Eileen Cassidy Rivera

Interior wants to put all its messages in one cloud

The department is looking for a cloud-based Enterprise eArchive System for capturing e-mail, social media, instant messaging and electronic documents.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

GD wins offshore energy management pact

General Dynamics will help manage oil and gas development for Interior Department.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Interior nixes contract, asks for industry input

Federal officials may be reaching out to industry more often to get the best from companies even as agency budgets tighten.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Acentia unveils 10 contact wins worth $20M

Among Acentia's previously unannounced wins were six new task orders worth $15.3 million from the Interior Department’s Bureau of Reclamation and two contracts from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission worth a combined $3.8 million.

  • By David Hubler

Google stops suit against Interior

Company says Interior will consider them for future cloud solicitations, but the Interior says, 'not so fast.'

  • By Washington Technology staff

Agencies don't account for all program costs, experts say

Auditors at GAO found that several agencies with interagency contracts and those that help with acquisitions don’t carefully account for all the costs of their programs.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Rare 5.9 earthquake shakes up D.C. federal buildings

"Did you feel it?" was the question that boomeranged around Twitter in thousands of tweets after an unusually strong earthquake hit Virginia about 90 miles from Washington, D.C.

  • By Alice Lipowicz and Matthew Weigelt

Interior reconsiders future of assisted services branch

Interior's IG questions the usefulness of the Acquisition Services Directorate in Sierra Vista, Ariz., saying its risks might outweigh its benefits.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Design a logo, win a prize

Interior Department offers a $1,000 prize for a logo design.

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Panelists at the Federal IT Acquisition Summit shared some of the lessons learned from federal assisted acquisitions.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

GAO freshens up its list of high-risk programs

The Government Accountability Office today updated its list of high-risk government programs, removing some programs and adding a new one.

  • By Alyah Khan

Is Google's fight with Interior a sign of maturity?

Cloud vendors are starting to fight each other in the legal arena for contract advantages. Is the technology still cutting-edge?

  • By John Zyskowski

Google sues Interior over cloud RFQ

Google and a cloud partner have sued the government alleging that an Interior Department RFQ unfairly excludes Google.

  • By Michael Hardy

Interior to get new deputy CIO

Gross takes on a new role at the Interior Department, continuing the changes at the department, Matthew Weigelt writes.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

General Dynamics to assist Interior with resource management

General Dynamics Corp. will furnish a variety of information management services to the Interior Department under a task order potentially worth $10.5 million over five years.

  • By William Welsh

Mashups go mainstream as agencies mix data with social media

Improved user interfaces, standardized components and robust security in mashup software are making it easier to pull service-enabling components from multiple resources.

  • By Rutrell Yasin