The General Accounting Office has rejected a protest of the Pentagon's award of a multimillion-dollar contract to IBM for the development of a new financial management architecture. The Defense Department announced in April that IBM had won the competition to develop the architecture ( DefenseAlert , April 10). IBM will lead an industry team, under the direction of the new DOD Financial Management Modernization Program Office, "to design a blueprint for future DOD investments in business management information technology," a...
