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Excelicon Added to GSA’s $50B 8(a) STARS III Program as Prime Contractor
June 22, 2021 Excelicon was named among the awardees of the 8(a) STARS III Governmentwide Acquisition Contract used by the General Services Administration to procure information technology services from 8(a) small businesses. As an 8(a) STARS III prime contractor,…
Optimize Your Computer For Working From Home
By Jacob Eberhart, IT Specialist, Excelicon While we’re all away from our desks but at our keyboards, here are a few tips to keep your computers running smoothly. After all, technology is the key for working remotely during this time…
Why Do Business with the U.S. Federal Government in Times of Crisis (or Not)?
By Nitin Pradhan We live in a world of darkness. The below performance chart of the Dow Jone Industrial Average on March 16th, 2020 proves it. There is panic selling happening all across the U.S. and the world. Food shelves…
A Whole Community Approach to Technology Business Management (TBM) & Why I Left Government
By Kelly Morrison, Director, Grant Thornton I’ve always enjoyed collaborating across a wide array of networks on key issues impacting the federal government and its constituents. And I relished my time in government, where I really felt like I was…
Cyber Watch – Are You Really Resilient?
By: Dean C. Gallup MBCP CISM, Director, Cybersecurity and Business Resilience Consulting, Advantaged Solutions, Inc., Vice-President, Mid-Atlantic Disaster Recovery Association (MADRA) Your cyber resilience program can define your agency or organization’s ability to respond to and recover from a cyberattack…
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Excelicon Added to GSA’s $50B 8(a) STARS III Program as Prime Contractor
June 22, 2021 Excelicon was named among the awardees of the 8(a) STARS III Governmentwide Acquisition Contract used by the General Services Administration to procure information technology services from 8(a) small businesses. As an 8(a) STARS III prime contractor,…
GAO Information Technology: Agencies Need to Develop and Implement Modernization Plans for Critical Legacy Systems
The U.S. government plans to spend over $100 billion this fiscal year on information technology. Most of that will be used to operate and maintain existing systems, including aging (also called “legacy”) systems. These systems can be more costly to…
OMB tells agencies how they can win some of the $1B in the Technology Modernization Fund
By Jason Miller, Federal News Network If federal chief information officers and program managers want to get their hands on some of the $1 billion in the Technology Modernization Fund, they have less than a month to put their plan…
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GAO Information Technology: Agencies Need to Develop and Implement Modernization Plans for Critical Legacy Systems
The U.S. government plans to spend over $100 billion this fiscal year on information technology. Most of that will be used to operate and maintain existing systems, including aging (also called “legacy”) systems. These systems can be more costly to…
The Current State of Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform and Management
Updated February 3, 2020 Summary The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reported that the federal government budgets more than $90 billion each year on information technology (IT) investments. Historically, the projects supported by these investments have often incurred “multi-million dollar…
H.R.1232 – Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act
Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act – Title I: Management of Information Technology within Federal Government – (Sec. 101) Requires the heads of the following agencies to ensure that their respective chief information officers (CIOs) have a significant role in…