Justice served with IT systems, services from SRA
The task order was awarded under the ITES-3 contract, a multiple-award vehicle for providing system development lifecycle services to federal agencies.
New Jersey chooses ACS for electronic benefits deal
ACS will provide transaction processing, call-center services, account management, Web-based transaction inquiry, online reporting, retailer management for merchants and automated teller machine access.
GSA extends Networx deadlines
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font>The General Services Administration is extending the deadlines for companies to respond to its requests for proposals for the FTS Networx procurement.
E-Government run amok!
In the first half of 2004, when the Environmental Protection Agency solicited public feedback for a proposed rule that would limit mercury output from power plants, it received almost 540,000 comments over the Internet.
Massachusetts Medicaid services deal awarded to Maximus
The commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded a four-year, $72 million contract to Maximus Inc. for a range of customer services for MassHealth, the state's Medicaid program.
GSA awards Symplicity new FedBizOpps.gov contract
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service late last week awarded Symplicity Corp. the contract to run the federal government's procurement portal.
DOJ funds cybersecurity lab to test Internet-size attacks
The Justice Department awarded a $500,000 grant to Iowa State University as seed funding for a cybersecurity lab that will accurately simulate online attacks.
Patent Office embraces 21st-century FTP
The Patent and Trademark Office has implemented an electronic transfer system to move large files of sensitive and complex data over the Internet rather than transport it on tape.
EDITOR'S DESK: Lessons of NMCI
Few federal projects have attracted as much second-guessing within IT circles as the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
Other agencies could benefit from NMCI's hard-learned lessons
The long travails of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program offers numerous lessons that can be applied by federal agencies designing very large contracts, and by integrators looking to bid on them.
Mixed and matched
When the Army was planning for the Army Knowledge Online portal, it chose a strategy that reflected its organizational structure.
Marines became reluctant partner
When the Navy embarked on the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project, some observers say, the Marine Corps balked.
Intranet still rides on DISN
One quirk of the NMCI contract is that, even though some credit EDS' contract win to the fact that the company had already set up its own wide area network, NMCI doesn't use it.
Navy's surveys show satisfaction
Through NMCI, the Navy has gained discipline and cost visibility, Navy officials say; and the majority of users are satisfied with the service, according to the Navy's sampling of users in the most recent quarterly survey.
NMCI goes for the save
When the Navy awarded Electronic Data Systems Corp. the groundbreaking Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract in October 2000, the two parties struck up a partnership that quickly came to resemble a difficult marriage.
Who has security clearance?
Imu Etuk, CEO of MathCraft Inc. in Dulles, Va., calls his company's Access Commander program 'security accountability software.'
The lowdown alternative browser
<b>What is it?</b> An alternative browser is a user interface for accessing data, media and applications over an intranet or Internet connection from a source other than Explorer.
Alternative browsers get a day in the sun
People scoffed when Microsoft Corp. officials said during the company's antitrust trial in 2002 that the IT market would provide all the necessary competition, so there was no need for federal intervention.
FEMA, emergency agencies and industry fine-tune XML
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, other emergency management agencies and IT industry representatives are moving to refine their Extensible Markup Language protocol for emergency public warnings.
IRS awards tax software contract to CGI-AMS
The agency has awarded a $2.7 million contract to CGI-AMS Inc. for assistance with the first phase of IRS' Filing and Payment Compliance initiative.
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