I was surprised when reading the article "The money trail: Contractors lean to the right" [Oct. 11] to find Mitre Corp. on a list of companies tracked by dollars contributed to political campaigns. Although you said these contributions include those made by "company employees and spouses," your story leaves the distinct impression that these monies are going to campaigns from companies on your Top 100 list of federal prime contractors. At Mitre, nothing could be further from the truth.
Amit Yoran brought to his former job as director of the Homeland Security Department's cybersecurity division the perspective of an engineer and entrepreneur. "Maybe that's not the right fit for the job," he said.
The Veterans Affairs Department has put out a draft request for proposals to modernize the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture.
Government IT administrators sweat over FISMA compliance, but pity the poor private-sector security officers who find they must meet the same systems security requirements.
The machines aren't effective if you don't know how to use them -- that's the one big lesson officials learned about e-voting systems in the Nov. 2 election.
Within the next week, the Government Accountability Office will add another chapter to the ongoing drama of the Housing and Urban Development Department's IT Services buy when it rules on the second protest filed by the losing vendor.
More than three quarters of aerospace and defense industry company officials say their IT and business strategies are either well or very well aligned, according to a survey by Computer Sciences Corp.
Congress has given the Homeland Security Department's Privacy Office a fivefold budget increase for fiscal 2005, to $35 million, and the office is trying to establish a framework for evaluating new data collection technologies and information sharing with other agencies and jurisdictions.
The Homeland Security Department plans to open an information technology acquisitions center next year and is trying to improve its disjointed procurement program, DHS' chief procurement officer said today.
Virginia technology officials are using a bold contracting approach to turn over the state's information technology infrastructure to the private sector.
Denver seeks CRM system. The city and county of Denver want to develop a customer relationship management system that lets citizens and businesses interact with local government via the Web, e-mail, phone, fax and in person.
I didn't find much on the Web site about doing business with ITA. You may want to follow the advice of CIO Renee Macklin and first contact one of the agency's senior functional leads.
