Doing Business With Tennessee Valley Authority
400 W. Summit Hill Drive<br> Knoxville, Tenn. 37902<br>(865) 632-2101<br>
Committee continues review of SBA reauthorization
House legislation that would reauthorize spending by the Small Business Administration for fiscal 2004 and 2005 has been delayed because of concerns about its procurement provisions, according to House Democrats on the Small Business Committee.
Lawmakers: Adopt existing IT to fight terror
Congress is increasingly convinced that commercial software tools are adequate for the data mining and analysis requirements of fighting terrorism and protecting personal data from misuse.
Rep. Davis launches U.S. Visit probe
The Homeland Security Department's border systems modernization is receiving renewed congressional scrutiny just as the agency is seeking proposals for the massive overhaul.
Doing Business With: Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Doing Business With: Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Buy Lines: Competitive sourcing ? Yeah, right
In October, the Agriculture Department issued a report on its competitive sourcing program, from which one could infer that competition at DoA is, indeed, DOA.
Supercomputing road map starts
	An interagency task force has begun building a five-year road map for federal spending on high-end computers.
Enhanced 911 on hold
	A lack of money and coordination at the state and local level is delaying implementation of Enhanced 911 emergency service for cellular phones, according to a General Accounting Office report.
Info security group formed
	Rep. Adam Putnam has formed a Corporate Information Security Working Group, comprised of representatives from industry and academia to work for improved information security in U.S. businesses.
FPDS in midst of system overhaul
There's an old saying that if you torture the numbers long enough, they'll tell you whatever you want to hear. But the numbers coming out of the Federal Procurement Data System have long been known to have problems that can interfere with their ability to tell anything, such as lack of timeliness, inconsistency and reporting errors.
Infotech and the Law: Reconstructing Iraq -- A primer on the contracting maze
Rebuilding Iraq is under way. The most ambitious nation-building program since the Marshall Plan in 1945, this effort will involve about $75 billion in expenditures. Much of the effort will focus on updating the country's technology infrastructure, and most of this money will be spent on contracts issued to the private sector.
DARPA announcement
	The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants proposals to investigate, prototype and demonstrate an air-to-air-to-surface hybrid link and networking concept. It will involve combined and simultaneous free-space optical and radio frequencies. Proposals are sought in range and flight demonstration systems integration and technology maturation.
NIST small-business program
	The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking proposals from small businesses to participate in the NIST Small Business Innovation Research program. Phase 1 is for feasibility research in several areas, including high-accuracy, high-stability, high-pressure transducers; software development on high-speed impact of multilayered materials; safety and privacy in managing credentials; device-independent interaction framework for immersive scientific visualization; applying software test generation methods to large programs; and computational tools to support intelligent and distributed computer-aided design.
Missile defense support
The Army Space and Missile Defense Command will recompete the multiple award contract for Space and Missile Defense Initiatives Support. Task areas include vision statements and doctrine, developing architectures and providing program support, such as modeling and simulation, system analysis and integration, prototype development and analyzing emerging technologies analysis.
Military plans more satellite buys
The Defense Department is poised to go on a buying spree for satellites and satellite services.
Buy American amendment dies in Congress
Technology industry lobbyists have emerged victorious from the fight over "Buy American" provisions included in the Defense Authorization Act.
Doing Business With the Department of the Air Force
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Infotech and the law: Step-by-step guide to creating a corporate ethics program
In response to Enron and other corporate debacles, and to increased federal regulation, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, companies are again examining their in-house compliance and ethics programs.
Buy Lines: Keep your eyes open for conflicts of interest
Enterprisewide solutions can optimize results and leverage available funding for federal agencies. But sometimes they also create potential for organizational conflicts of interest or related appearance issues.
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