NASA Will Kick Off a $14 Billion Governmentwide IT Buy this Week

NASA Will Kick Off a $14 Billion Governmentwide IT Buy this Week

Publicly owned Internet infrastructure is luring jobs to smaller towns. Should big cities follow their lead?Over the next six months or so, we're going to see an explosion of new ways of interacting with computers, televisions, and mobile devices.If the past is prologue, the plan to making existing systems interoperable will be fraught with problems. NASA mission managers work in Firing Room Four of the Launch Control Center at NASA Kennedy Space Center. // Bill Ingalls/NASA/AP This week, NASA plans to release the preliminary request for its fifth governmentwide

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  1. Alice Lipowicz

    80.0 days ago

    NASA Will Kick Off a $14 Billion Governmentwide IT Buy this Week http://t.co/i1T58FOEvU via @nextgov

  2. Nextgov

    80.0 days ago

    .@NASA is going shopping! The agency is kicking off a $14 billion governmentwide IT buy this week: http://t.co/t00D3P4VxD (via @bobbrewin)

  3. Nextgov

    80.0 days ago

    NASA Will Kick Off a $14 Billion Governmentwide IT Buy this Week http://t.co/HFBenjni8Q



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