Indianapolis Chief Information Officer Mike Hineline doesn't hesitate to acknowledge the shortcomings of local government when it comes to delivering electronic services to citizens and businesses.
In January, Texas attorney Riecke Baumann filed the first electronic lawsuit in Fort Bend County, Texas, while sitting in his Houston office, an hour drive from the courthouse.
Mark Forman, administrator of e-government and information technology in the Office of Management and Budget, recently spoke with Staff Writer Gail Repsher Emery about e-gov.
When the Office of Management and Budget two years ago unveiled its e-government program, "e-gov" became a buzzword, and OMB's 25 high-profile projects requiring extensive collaboration among agencies became synonymous with e-government.But industry and government officials are discovering, is much more than 25 initiatives.
Using sound-bite rhetoric and deliberate misinformation, opponents of competitive sourcing are simultaneously assaulting the Office of Management and Budget's May 29 revisions to Circular A-76 and engaging in guerrilla campaign tactics to ban competition, agency by agency, through legislation.
Commerce secretary asks Congress to combine his department's Technology Administration, National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the e-commerce policy functions of the International Trade Administration.
The Homeland Security Department has started advertising for a person to fill Laura Callahan's position, but an agency spokeswoman said that Callahan remains on administrative leave.
Federal agencies have started work on plans for new cross-agency IT initiatives that will consolidate operations in criminal investigation, public health information, financial management and human resources, said Mark Forman, administrator of IT and e-government in the Office of Management and Budget.
Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Tom Davis today said they have asked the General Accounting Office to investigate the use of diploma mill degrees by federal employees.
Nine agencies improved their ratings on the President's Management Agenda scorecard released today ? the greatest improvement so far in implementing the 2-year-old agenda.
A senator wants answers from the Labor Department about measures they can or might take regarding Laura Callahan's questionable academic degrees and the department's policies.
The federal personnel office wants agencies to do a better job of screening employees to ensure that they are not claiming credentials from unaccredited colleges or universities.
Cybersecurity regulation that will affect the private sector is on the way this year, a congressman said today. And the Business Software Alliance opposes mandates.
Proposed changes to federal rules for buying software could make it difficult for agencies to adopt commercial software licenses, a Boston-based law firm says.
After meetings with more than 72 companies, the National Archives and Records Administration will release a request for proposals by January to build the Electronic Records Archives system.
