First Stetson Awards honor six of the Trail Bosses who rode herd on a wild bunch ofIRM acquisitions
"No news is good news" is a saying clearly understood by the winners of the first Trail Boss Stetson Awards. The six federal information technology procurement managers honored this month know that when things go right, they won't be in the public eye. With systems buys, "the success measure comes far, far after the program award," said speaker George Coulbourn, vice president of Boeing Information Services.
GSA moves IT policy offices from IT Service into new unit
After more than a decade of shaping the government's IRM landscape, the General Services Administration's Information Technology Service is getting out of the systems procurement policy-making business. GSA Administrator Roger Johnson has drafted plans for incorporating ITS' policy functions into a new Office of Governmentwide Planning, Policy and Leadership.
NT is Posix-compliant, GSBCA decides; ruling raises questions
All operating systems certified as Posix-compliant ought to be equal. But some, as George Orwell might say, are more equal than others. A recent ruling by the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals affirmed the Posix compliance of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT operating system. Several months ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology certified NT as complying with the Posix standard, Federal Information Processing Standard 151-2 for open operating systems. However, C3 Corp.
Debate ends; MAS duties move
After weeks of internal debate, General Services Administrator Roger Johnson has approved the consolidation of all GSA schedule programs into a single operation run by the agency's Federal Supply Service. The shift, which officially takes effect Oct. 1, ends the Information Technology Service's role as chief negotiator and manager of the Multiple-Award Schedule information technology contracts.
Now hear this: We're listening
The Pentagon is embarking on a radically new approach to managing and operating its global information transport needs, judging from the solicitations for the Defense Information Systems Network. For as long as computers have been around, DOD has bought and operated its own communications switches and network multiplexers, and in some cases, even the connecting copper and fiber-optic lines. Industry's role has been limited largely to providing dumb pipes that link DOD's far-flung installations.
GCN Editorial
It's now three weeks, more or less, until the desktop software version of a new millenium dawns. Windows 95, a new operating system, brings special concerns to a government with tight operating budgets and a need to maintain an aggressive pace of information technology infusion. Much as it may frustrate everyone in the microcomputing food chain from hardware and software manufacturers to end users, the simple fact is that Windows 95 is something that must
Procurement reform tussle will continue on House floor
House Republicans and Democrats will take their procurement reform fight to the House floor, and a lively battle seems inevitable. The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee last month approved Rep. William F. Clinger Jr.'s procurement bill, but only after the Pennsylvania Republican assured committee Democrats they could offer amendments during floor debate. The House is expected to vote on the bill next month, committee staff members said.
All talk and no action sums up DOD systems security budget
The vulnerability of Defense Department information systems is ""the major security challenge of this decade and possibly of the next century,'' according to a landmark Pentagon study. But a review of next year's Defense budget suggests Congress and DOD aren't really that concerned. Few topics grab headlines like the unrelenting penetration of DOD networks by hackers. When the Joint Security Commission reported in February 1994 that ""we have neither come to grips with the enormity
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Now hear this--sidebar
For the first wave of acquisitions to build the Defense Department's new global network, the Defense Information Systems Agency has divided the requirements into four buys. One contractor will build and run the basic network architecture for the Defense Information Systems Network. As many as nine contractors will provide DISN transmission services. One contractor will meet the department's worldwide videoteleconferencing needs. And finally, one contractor will be DISA's helping hand for the DISN program.
DOD Briefs
Still waiting for that secure product evaluation? It may have been lost in the move. The National Security Agency has relocated its Trusted Product Evaluation Program, which gives security ratings to commercial hardware and software products. Formerly housed in the National Computer Security Center, TPEP now functions under the Office of Commercial Solutions and Enabling Technologies, a unit of the Information Security Customer Service and Engineering Group.
Small businesses share of fed contracting declines
Small business federal contracting is at its lowest level in decades, the American Small Business League reports.
IBM, Cram Software partner on COTS software?
The strategic alliance will deliver human services, social security and workforce services information technology solutions to government agencies.
Digital Reasoning names federal sales director
Rick Jensen will use his more than 25 years of sales experience to expand sales of the company's data-mining software solutions.
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