To satisfy agencies' evolving and increasingly complex needs, IBM invests in innovations and resources, including shared services, reusable assets and the newly opened IBM Federal SOA Institute.
Verizon's status as one of three prime contractors awarded the Networx Universal contract caps off a year spent integrating the wireless and local infrastructure capabilities of Verizon with the global networking, architecture and federal government acumen of MCI.
The numbers say it all: 2005 federal IT spending increased slightly from fiscal 2004, but during that same time, federal systems integrator SRA International Inc. posted a 43 percent increase in revenue and a 48 percent rise in net income.
Computer Sciences Corp.'s solid slate of lucrative, long-term, federal IT contracts is among the lures for potential buyers of the integrator. The company has been courted in recent months by an array of suitors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., Lockheed Martin Corp. and a number of private equity firms, and has retained Goldman Sachs to explore its potential sale.
Federal agencies spend $1.8 trillion every year on equipment and services needed to run the government. And they're looking to streamline the procurement process through online buying. "Without question, almost every federal agency has started the process," said Jim White, senior vice president of i2 Technologies.
The Navy had planned to spend more than $3 million over five years on a contractor who could transport the personal effects of military personnel back and forth between Hawaii and Guam. But as the result of an April reverse auction through eBreviate, an Electronic Data Systems Corp. company, they'll pay just $2.1 million, a savings of about 30 percent.
Several leading manufacturers of wireless hand-held devices are launching initiatives to enter the federal market, banking on long-term success in a market still facing significant obstacles to widespread adoption. Wireless devices play a role in the trend toward automation and mobility in government, said Tech Data Corp.'s Terry Bazzone.
Several leading manufacturers of wireless hand-held devices are launching initiatives to enter the federal market, banking on long-term success in a market still facing significant obstacles to widespread adoption.
Government sales are holding their own for the largest information technology distributors ? and that's good news, given the softening of commercial market spending.
