Agencies team on security ed
The Homeland Security Department and the National Science Foundation will sponsor and expand the NSF Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service program.
Firms oppose proposed small-biz rules
For the last eight years, Bill Colligan has carefully managed the growth of CSSI Inc. to ensure that the Washington company would retain its status as a small-business contractor until it was ready to compete with larger firms. This meant holding CSSI's annual revenue under its small-business revenue cap of $21 million, even while the number of employees grew to 210.
GSA asks for agencies' help with SmartBuy
General Services Administration officials are asking agencies for their help in negotiating enterprisewide software licensing agreements under the SmartBuy program, said Neal Fox, assistant commissioner for commercial acquisition at GSA's Federal Supply Service.
Air Force office needs support
The Air Force's Office of Space Command wants contractors that can provide research, development and program analysis support for the Atmosphere and Space Division of the Air Force Technical Applications Center. The division is responsible for collecting and exploiting satellite-borne remote-sensor data and providing national command authorities with nuclear weapons explosion data.
Next generation GPS
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego is searching for companies interested in contracts for the next-generation Global Positioning System navigation system with enhanced security and open-system architecture.
War game requires wireless network
The Marine Corps is looking for a vendor to provide wireless network equipment for its Sea Viking war game. Future war games will also require these wireless technologies, which will be incorporated into all unclassified games. The Sea Viking war game requires a large, powerful local area network.
Davis resurrects acquisition reforms
Acquisition reforms that didn't make it through Congress last year have been brought back to life by their author, Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.)
Davis pushes for more action on security clearances
Legislation this year may force the Defense Department to speed its process for granting security clearances to private contractors and government personnel who need access to classified information on the job.
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OPM unveils diploma mill abuses and outlines policy changes
The Office of Personnel Management has told agency heads it has identified several federal employees who claimed to have undergraduate and graduate degrees but had obtained their credentials from diploma mills.
AT&T touts continuity of operations plans
The government should leverage the expertise of private industry when it develops continuity of operations plans, an AT&T Corp. executive told Congress today.
Buy Lines: How to talk your way into government business
Teams of industry and government experts gather every day to address requirements and solve problems in the federal acquisition process. That process increasingly involves performance-based contracting approaches in which contractors make oral presentations for both market research and contract negotiation.
CSC vows success on troubled IRS contract
Many taxpayers dread the month of April when they must file their annual income-tax returns. But perhaps no one has more cause to shrink from the Internal Revenue Service these days than Computer Sciences Corp.
Later biometrics deadline sought
	The Homeland Security and State departments asked Congress for a two-year extension of an October deadline by which 27 countries were to provide biometric passports to citizens traveling to the United States.
DOD wants change in limits
Defense Department officials asked Congress to change a law that limits defense task and delivery order contracts to five years, including options and modifications, according to Deirdre Lee, the Pentagon's director of procurement.
DHS exceeds small-biz goals
The Homeland Security Department awarded almost 41 percent of its prime contracts to small businesses between the department's creation March 1, 2003, and Sept. 30, 2003, the end of the fiscal year, according to the department's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. The annual federal goal for small-business prime contracting is 23 percent.
Agencies to shift e-gov priorities
President Bush's fiscal 2005 budget reflects a slight shift away from creating new e-government projects to a focus on maintaining existing IT projects and shoring up network security, according to industry and government officials.
Infotech and the Law: Now, why can't foreigners work on fed IT deals?
The Homeland Security Department issued interim rules Dec. 4, 2003, that established its own acquisition regulation, known as HSAR. The rules supplement the Federal Acquisition Regulation and establish a uniform acquisition process for the entire agency, except the Transportation Security Administration.
Social Security seeks services
	The Social Security Administration needs a vendor for network intrusion protection services at its Baltimore headquarters. Services include weekly and monthly compliance tests of the agency's external network, including firewalls and Web servers, monthly audit reports, security advisories, technical support and provision of real-time intrusion detection technology.
NASA wants data sources
NASA Ames Research Center seeks submissions from commercial companies for airborne remote-sensing instruments for its suborbital research programs, specifically for its Earth Science Enterprise.
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