GSA issues HSPD-12 solicitation

The General Services Administration is shopping for a contractor that has delivered a large-scale integrated biometric identity management system in the last three years to deploy its HSPD-12 initiative.

Hacker penetrates USDA database

Secretary Mike Johanns alerted employees in the Washington area that a hacker broke into a database at headquarters and may have stolen the names, Social Security numbers and photos of about 26,000 current and former workers and contractors.

Vendors, agencies struggle with HSPD-12

Recent surveys signaled just how much vendors and agencies are struggling to implement Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.

Protests filed over Army's ITES-2S award

Five companies have protested the Army's recent $20 billion Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services contract award.

Telos, Air Force strike SmartBuy deal

The Defense Department late last week officially extended its enterprise software agreement with Telos Corp. for two of its titles to the rest of the federal government, offering discounts between 5 percent and 40 percent off of the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service schedule.

Telos on verge of closing SmartBuy deal with GSA

The General Services Administration earlier this week announced they are close to an enterprisewide software deal with Telos Corp. of Ashburn, Va., for their information assurance and automated message handling system titles.

GSA releases RFI for Budget Formulation Line of Business

The General Services Administration has released the final request for information for Budget Formulation under the three new Lines of Businesses Consolidation initiative ? three business days before the industry day.

RFI issued for IT Infrastructure LOB

Vendors are asked to "describe solutions and implementation approaches for achieving the government's IT Infrastructure Optimization Initiative vision and goals through the development of common solutions integrated with the Federal Enterprise Architecture."

How's your backbone?

How cryptic is the mandate for federal agencies to transition their network backbones to Version 6 of the Internet Protocol by 2008? Walt Grabowski thinks it may be more cryptic than first thought.

Blum: Agencies' A-76 winning down by one-third

Private-sector victories in some of the large competitions in 2005, including a 2,500-employee competition at the Federal Aviation Administration, likely contributed to the dip in the federal employee winning percentage last year.

GSA to release RFIs for new Lines of Business

The General Services Administration plans to release requests for information and hold industry days for the three news lines of business?IT infrastructure, geospatial and budget formulation?in mid-April.

Lockheed wins FBI Sentinel deal

Contract for $305 million will enhance case management, information sharing and analysis capabilities.

DOD's BEA Version 3.1 on its way to Congress

Version 3.1 addresses architecture gaps between intragovernmental transactions and within environmental safety and occupational health from the earlier 3.0 version.

OMB crunches numbers, revises 2007 IT budget forecast

At first glance, the administration heralded its commitment to technology in the fiscal 2007 IT budget, raising the request by more than 2.8 percent over this year. But in a closer analysis of the numbers from agencies over the past month, the Office of Management and Budget revealed that the White House's IT request will increase by only 0.5 percent over 2006.

GSA chooses vendors to support LOB initiatives

Booz Allen Hamilton, Grant Thorton, Performance Management Consulting Inc., SiloSmashers Inc. and Touchstone/SRA have been awarded a blanket purchase agreement to provide support for the Office of Management and Budget's Lines of Business consolidation initiatives.

Davis questions Treasury's approach to enterprise contract

Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) said this week that the Treasury Department's insistence on going forward with its own contract instead of using a General Services Administration governmentwide vehicle "makes no sense."

Accenture to install new Air Force financial system

Accenture Ltd. has been selected by the Air Force to install the service's Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System.

Bush's submits fiscal 2007 IT budget

Under President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget request submitted to Congress today, agencies would receive an IT budget of $64.2 billion?a 3 percent increase over fiscal 2006.

New, improved FirstGov.gov up and running

GSA officially launches FirstGov's new search engine powered by Vivisimo Inc.'s clustering technology and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN search tool.

ISC protests FedBizOpps contract award

Information Sciences Corp., the incumbent vendor, is suing the General Services Administration over a contract the agency awarded to Symplicity Corp. last month.