Declining federal budgets and pressures from other companies are causing an increase in the competition for a decreasing number of government contracts. The world is exploding with new applications for desktop workstations, even in the military environment. The information technology field emerged with little discipling in either hardware or software development. Improvement was encourage through the introduction of government quality initiatives and a 1995 U.S. congrassional mandate limiting awards of new government contracts to those companies with a record of good past performance. Poor performance on a single contract can take a company out of competition for up to five years! This adds urgency to improving a company's performance on existing contracts.
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