The Council for Excellence in Government unveiled a plan for achieving electronic government that recommends spending $3 billion and appointing an e-gov czar.
The Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project is a harbinger of the coming convergence of the telecommunications and information technology markets, according to a leading telecommunications analyst.
Several major federal agencies are delaying the so-called blacklisting rules that give contracting officers broad power to decide whether contractors are qualified to bid on government contracts.
The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the government market has left a nagging question for many startup companies still in business: What's the best way to make a profit?
Officials at startup company Virtual Compliance Inc. say that unlike many Internet-based businesses, theirs solves a real problem: how to comply with federal regulations.
Several of the country's largest telecommunications companies are quietly waging a legal battle with the General Services Administration to prevent the agency from disclosing their rates on government contracts.
Government agencies are scrambling to create what many see as the ideal in online services: a portal that cuts across agencies, providing a single place for citizens to interact with the government.
The fact that electronic government services represent only about 5 percent of today's state and local information technology market hasn't stopped some systems integrators from chasing it as if it were the only opportunity available.
VC3 Inc., a small integrator serving the public and private sectors, is seeking to expand its GovHost.com e-government division's reach nationwide through the Feb. 15 debut of a new reseller program.
The United Kingdom won't meet its goal of delivering all government services to citizens and businesses electronically by 2005, according to a recent report by Forrester Research Inc.
The government likely cannot adopt a completely commercial model for electronic procurement, and it probably shouldn't, according to Deidre Lee, director of procurement for the Department of Defense.
Science Applications International Corp. won a five year, $23 million contract to perform software independent verification and validation for NASA's Goddard Software IV&V Facility in Fairmont, W. Va.
Government and industry representatives today released a report calling on federal agencies to beef up information security as they move government information and services to the Web.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a pair of 10-year contracts to help U.S. embassies and consulates provide visa information and support services. The two contracts are worth $100 million.
GovWorks Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, calling itself a victim of the "growth-at-any-cost craze" that has killed a slew of Internet companies.
