HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced the formation of a national collaboration and four requests for proposals as the next steps to advance adoption of health IT.
CGI-AMS Inc. has won a $2.7 million contract from the Internal Revenue Service to assist the agency with the first phase of its Filing and Payment Compliance initiative.
The Homeland Security Department will consolidate more than 20 portals and 150 Web sites into one enterprise portal serving the entire agency ? just as soon as commercial software catches up with its needs.
Like every other federal agency, the Food and Drug Administration has been directed to improve its enterprise architecture and break down walls that isolate agency databases.
Sun Microsystems Inc.'s $4.1 billion purchase of Storage Technology Corp. is taking place against the backdrop of a rapidly growing data storage industry.
Harris Corp. won a $6.6 million research and development contract from the Army Communications-Electronics Command to develop and demonstrate the Jigsaw Laser Radar 3D-imaging test-bed system for use on an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Lockheed Martin Corp. is part of a joint venture awarded a $3.4 billion contract to design and develop the Medium Extended Air Defense System for the U.S., Germany and Italy.
States and counties waiting for additional guidelines from the federal government will be hard-pressed to get new voting systems deployed before next year's elections.
As director, William Jeffrey would lead the governmentwide technical implementation of the federal identification card and the continued development of IT security and electronic-authentication technologies.
New U.S. passports with radio-frequency identification tags will be protected by a physical barrier, protections on the equipment used to read the tags and possibly encryption technology.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has called on technology vendors to develop products that would assist both safety and productivity.
The United States and the Netherlands are launching a "trusted traveler" program to speed up security checks for selected travelers between Amsterdam's Schiphol and John F. Kennedy International airports.
