The Presidential e-Government Initiatives have lost steam because people still prefer to interact with agencies over the telephone, according to a new report.
A new report from the Justice Department's inspector general said the government's center for consolidating information from various terrorist watch lists has suffered from poor IT management.
Two industry associations said the draft strategy released earlier this month didn't address of the issues surrounding the reporting structure of the new Federal Acquisition Service and the guiding principles of the reorganization.
AT&T Government Solutions won a subcontract to provide engineering and installation work at key locations in the United States and abroad for the Defense Department's Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion project.
CDW-G will provide the software for 28,000 desktops and 884 servers in the Naval Network Warfare Command's One-Net, a single enterprise network covering 16 shore installations in Europe, the Middle East and Far East.
The Homeland Security Department is looking for ideas on how to launch a major enterprise-level Identity Management Project for its 180,000 employees, as well as for state, local and federal contractors and officials.
The contracts represent roughly $1.4 billion in combined procurements and include the Army Knowledge Online enterprise portal and a consolidated approach for the service's financial-management systems.
VeriSign Inc. said it has been approved by the Defense Department to issue digital certificates required for anyone who wants access to protected government Web sites and applications.
The Defense Information Systems Agency today issued a request for proposals for the $300 million, Joint Hawaii Information Transfer Service contract for telecommunications services.
The Homeland Security Department is not adequately prepared to recover its IT systems following a disaster, according to DHS acting Inspector General Richard Skinner.
Maj. Gen. Dennis Moran said Army IT budgetary dollars in 2006 would be closely linked to how well a program's requirements are defined and whether the program is being built to service the whole enterprise.
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission hinted that the agency might have to reorganize to better address the rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Secretary Mike Leavitt said an Rx drug adverse-event reporting system could be one of the first projects that a federal advisory group might take on as part of an initiative to build a national health information exchange.
A group of emergency management agencies and IT industry representatives, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, are moving to refine their Extensible Markup Language protocol for emergency public warnings.
The request for proposal for the 10-year, $65 billion Alliant contracts for governmentwide information technology services will be issued in August, according the General Services Administration's assistant commissioner for commercial acquisitions at the agency's Federal Supply Service.
NEC Solutions America Inc. has entered into a partnership with Tropos Networks Inc. to provide wireless mobile data systems to police, fire and emergency medical personnel.
The Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office has outlined new subfunctions for the health and human resources business lines, and clarified definitions for two subfunctions and three new lines of business.
The Health and Human Services Department has released requests for proposals that it hopes will pave the way toward developing a national health information network infrastructure that supports the exchange of electronic health records.
Major homeland security IT contracts awarded to Northrop Grumman, Accenture and Unisys are among IT programs coming under scrutiny by Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General.
