The Senate has ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Cyber Crime, the first multinational, multilateral treaty to require cooperation among law enforcement agencies in the investigation and prosecution of computer network crimes.
A future in which electronic health records are available in real time nationwide may be as much as a decade away, but states today are looking at how to use e-records to improve the citizens' health, track diseases and lower their health-care costs.
IT services companies need to be especially careful about employment discrimination issues, which, if mishandled, inevitably divert management and employee attention from project work and lead to lower productivity and delay.
Congress is building a Homeland Security Department funding piñata, with technology-laced spending sweeteners for every state and congressional district, and it's on a fast track for enactment before fiscal 2007 begins Oct. 1.
Losing out on small business set-aside contracts and plunging headlong into the mid-tier market is not necessarily an attractive proposition for some small businesses, industry analysts said.
After factoring in $12 billion in miscoding errors, said Democrats on the House Small Business Committee, just 21.6 percent of all federal prime contracts in fiscal 2005 went to small businesses. ? and more briefs
The Comptroller of the Currency needs content management solutions to replace the technologies it uses to produce and distribute publications and Web content.
To increase competition among services contracts, the General Services Administration should develop a new schedule for IT services and expand the Defense Department rule of three to the rest of government, according to the Acquisition Advisory Panel.
No growing business would try to operate without documented business processes, illustrated by flowcharts, but when it comes to the many business processes where taxpayer money is spent, such process documents are hard to come by.
The Labor Department has vast resources to help people find jobs, collect benefits and more. The problem: For some, the resources are too much of a good thing, and they need coaching to help navigate the volumes of information.
Life continues to get tougher for middle-market federal suppliers. Executives and company owners in the federal technical and professional services business have sensed a significant change in the demographic profile of this market since the mid-1990s.
When CACI International Inc. wanted to create an advanced budgeting and reporting software tool for federal agencies, it didn't want to reinvent the wheel. Instead, the systems integrator sought to build on applications its customers had to minimize user resistance.
It's hard to imagine a federal IT mandate that touches every agency where they communicate, execute and operate, and not see dollar signs. But as systems integrators and their partners eye the chance to convert government networks to the newest Internet protocol, they're finding it hard to get a handle on the opportunity.
SunGard Investment Systems Inc. has won a $13 million contract from the Treasury Department to provide investment accounting software and support services to the Office of Public Debt Accounting.
Large federal businesses preying on weaknesses in the Small Business Administration's contracting programs to win work intended for small companies could face more robust requirements intended to aid small businesses.
