Homeland Security Revving Up for Acquisitions

by Wilson P. Dizard III
(March 4, 2003)

 

ORLANDO, Fla.—The Homeland Security Department within the next month or so will begin issuing requests for information for systems and services it will need, speakers said today at the Information Processing Interagency Conference.

Flyzik, now a partner in the firm of Guerra, Kiviat, Flyzik and Associates of Oak Hill, Va., also said the department's Science and Technology Directorate would carry out pilots of "things that are not ready for prime time today."

"The most exciting working group is the enterprise architecture” team, Flyzik said. The department wants to have 80 percent of its systems architecture in place by September, he said.

HSD sent Coast Guard chief knowledge officer Nat Heiner to speak for Cooper, who stayed in Washington for the official opening of the department last Saturday.

"I can't tell you when that is going to happen," Heiner said, and added the department plans to set up a Web site for vendors.

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