National Information Consortium Inc. has won a five-year contract to build and manage an e-government portal for the state of Rhode Island, the company announced July 2.
State and local tax agencies are relying on integrators more than ever to help them collect revenue and provide new services to boost their images and strengthen their collection processes.
A growing number of high-tech companies are forming alliances and creating new business lines aimed at tapping into the potentially lucrative electronic voting marketplace.
Companies that provide information security services are beginning to reap the benefits of a little-noticed cybersecurity law that took effect in November 2000 and is now exerting its influence over federal agencies throughout the government.
Zip Brown, vice president of the eGovernment Solutions Group at American Management Systems Inc. in Fairfax, Va., used to say that several of her company's products were compliant with Section 508, a new federal regulation that goes into effect June 25.
The federal government exerts a tremendous influence over the business processes, daily operations and technology development within state and local government agencies.
Information technology companies are uncertain whether they can meet a June 25 deadline that says all electronic and IT products they sell to the U.S. government must be accessible to people with disabilities.
AT&T Corp. has been awarded a $5 million judgment by General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals, far less than the $140 million the company was seeking in its claim against the federal agency. The decision, handed down May 18, gave New York-based AT&T the money as compensation for lost revenue the company claimed should have been generated under FTS2000, the GSA's mandatory long-distance contract put in place in 1988.
A key House lawmaker is planning to introduce legislation that would require the government to use private-sector practices to improve the way agencies purchase information technology services.
Sens. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., and John McCain, R-Ariz., and Reps. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., and Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., introduced a "sense of the Congress" resolution May 10, promoting the spread of international electronic commerce.
Compelled by new federal regulations to modernize health care information management, state governments are expected to spend $3 billion modifying or replacing existing health care systems, a complex effort that many officials liken to the year 2000 challenge.
Federal agencies must begin posting all government business opportunities worth more than $25,000 on the FedBizOpps.gov Web site by Oct. 1, a federal procurement council said May 16.
It's going to take some tough love by state chief information officers to get their information technology systems and projects through the next few troubled years.
The comment period on a rule that would revoke a controversial government contracting rule was recently extended from June 4 to July 6, and a public meeting about it was set for June 18.
American Management Systems Inc. has hired Steve Kolodney, chief information officer for the state of Washington, to head up the company's e-government initiatives.
Canada's federal and provincial officials see the Internet as an important channel for service delivery, but their online services won't fulfill the nation's plan for seamless government, according to a report released April 17.
Twelve years ago, one Microsoft Corp. employee expressed interest in making the software giant's products more accessible to people with disabilities, spawning an initiative that has grown into a company unit of 40 full-time workers.
Electronic government initiatives are sweeping the nation, rapidly moving from the drawing board to implementation. In many respects, the focus of new online activity is centered on creating self-service applications to enable customers to complete entire transactions online.
Many systems integrators are abandoning the self-funding model for electronic procurement, and now are asking their state and local government customers either to split the funding costs or provide a financial guarantee on their investment, according to analysts and industry officials.
