The Bush administration is counting heavily on state and local governments to help it succeed with the government-to-government portion of its e-government program, said Mark Forman, associate director of information technology and e-government for the Office of Management and Budget.
The 24 e-government initiatives identified by OMB are the largest change management model that exists, Chief Technology Officer Norman Lorentz said at a conference.
The Bush administration's 24 cross-agency e-government initiatives are paving the way for greater collaboration and information sharing among federal, state and local governments, officials said. Mark Forman, associate director for information technology and e-government, is getting state and local governments involved in OMB's e-gov initiatives.
Solutions-oriented purchasing and homeland security were the two drivers of this year's FOSE government IT trade show, held March 19-21 at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center.
The Bush administration's 24 cross-agency e-government initiatives are paving the way for greater collaboration and information sharing among federal, state and local governments, officials said.
Debate about public-private job competitions is heating up on Capitol Hill as lawmakers await an independent report recommending improvements in conducting the competitions.
Senior government officials are putting a higher priority on electronic government than they did a year ago, but they are walking a tightrope to balance the twin tasks of developing e-government and beefing up the security of their IT systems, recent studies show.
Later this month, the first salvo in a competition for government business will be fired, but it won't be contractors dueling for the latest federal opportunity. Instead, the General Services Administration will face off against GovWorks, the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service franchise fund.
AT&T Corp. won a contract worth $2 million a year to replace the search engine for FirstGov.gov, the federal government's one-stop portal for information and services.
AT&T Corp. has won a contract worth $2 million annually to replace the search engine for FirstGov.gov, the federal government's one-stop portal for information and services, the General Services Administration announced.
Vice President Cheney unveiled a redesigned FirstGov.gov Web site at a White House press conference Feb. 27. The redesign is one of the administration's first high-profile accomplishments in its efforts to expand Web-based government services. The relaunch of FirstGov starts the deployment of the federal e-government strategy.
E-government remains a top priority in the Bush administration's new budget, despite the emphasis given to homeland security and information assurance.
IBM Corp. has agreed to fund the study of electronic government for a three years at the University of Maryland. The research will be carried out by Robert H. Smith School of Business' Center for e-Service.
A government and industry effort to educate citizens about computer security will launch soon, but the ambitious plan to reach the nation's 60 million home computer users had to be scaled back because of a lack of money, a General Services Administration official said.
Before government agencies buy into biometrics for security, especially facial recognition, they should resolve the policy and privacy issues, said panelists at a forum sponsored by the Cato Institute.
Bush administration officials called on Congress to pass trade promotion authority legislation and an economic stimulus package that would cut taxes, actions they said would help bring the economy out of recession.
Qwest Communications International won permission from the General Services Administration to offer Web-hosting services throughout the federal government. Jim Payne, senior vice president for Qwest's government systems division, said that once the company and GSA's Federal Technology Service sat down to negotiate, the process moved quickly.
The Internal Revenue Service is re-examining whether to allow citizens to file income taxes directly online, a move that has raised the ire of tax preparation software companies and their supporters on Capitol Hill.
