Lockheed Martin has won the largest public-private job competition ever conducted at a civilian agency.

The Federal Aviation Administration awarded Lockheed a 10-year, $1.9 billion contract to operate its flight service stations. The work is now performed by about 2,500 government employees.

Lockheed said it will offer jobs to all of them with comparable pay and benefits.

The chairman of the House aviation subcommittee wants to turn airport security screening back over to contractors.

Rep. John Mica (R-FL) told USA Today he is preparing legislation “to get [the Transportation Security Administration] totally out of operating screening.” He said privatizing the system would reduce long waits at airport checkpoints.

Under Mica’s plan, TSA would set standards for screeners that were hired by contractors.

Democrats on his committee said they oppose privatization.

Since November airports have been permitted to apply to replace TSA screeners with contractors. Only one airport, in Elko, NV, has expressed interest, according to Airports Council International.

After April 1, federal IT purchases costing less than $2,500 must comply with Section 508 accessibility standards. The Federal Acquisition Regulation micropurchase exception ends on that date.

Section 508 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act requires that electronic and information technology bought by the federal government must be accessible to people with disabilities. That applies to printers, copiers, fax machines, scanners, laptops, desktop computers and telephones, among other things.

The Architectural And Transportation Barriers Compliance Board sets accessibility standards. For more information, go to www.access-board.gov.

The National Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have released a standard IT security checklist.

The Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) was developed in consultation with industry and is vendor-neutral. “The intent of the XCCDF is to provide a uniform foundation for expression of security checklists, benchmarks, and other configuration guidance, thereby fostering a more widespread application of good security practices,” NSA said in a statement.

The document is available at http://csrc.nist.gov/checklists/.

SBA announced it is terminating the waiver of the nonmanufacturer rule for petroleum and coal products manufacturing.

The agency said it recently discovered small business manufacturers for this class of products. Termination is effective Feb. 14.