New priorities and initiatives come along with a new administration. For some critical issues, such as outsourcing and budget constraints, the real impact will not be known for several years.
The Justice Department wants information on the available technologies and capabilities needed to build a national information system that would store and share information on violent gang activities.
Opportunities or obstacles? Spend more or less on marketing? Will the defense sector grow or shrink? Will oversight and transparency hurt business? These and other topics fed the discussion at a recent government contractors forum.
State and local governments are hurting themselves by imposing too many onerous terms on information technology contractors, according to a trade association.