A small player wants to have a much bigger role in federal information technology. Does it matter if its employees wear orange jump suits?

The player is Unicor. It also uses the names, Federal Prison Industries. It employs convicts as labor to provide a variety of services; and it's operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

GCN.com reports, Unicor plans to greatly increase its sales of technology services to federal agencies. It will do so directly, and by joining teams of other vendors over the next two years. One selling point: labor rates that compare to those of low cost foreign countries.

Among its services are processing of records and litigation documents. Unicor also provides IT services such as HTML and SGML tagging, indexing and scanning.

For more, visit Government Computer News online at GCN.com.