Porous borders and balky Homeland Security Department technology programs came under fire in a spending bill that House and Senate appropriators have sent for floor approval.
They've spent years and millions of dollars preparing for this moment, and now the four teams chasing the federal government's largest ever telecommunications contract are ready to go head to head.
The back-to-back hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast this season are an object lesson on the importance of electronic medical records. Having electronic medical records might have cut the time needed to deliver health services to hurricane victims, and even reduced the cost of delivering those services, analysts and industry officials said.
<font color="CC0000"><b>UPDATED</b></font color> BearingPoint has won a $3.3 million contract from the Navy's Program Executive Office for Information Technology to support a major IT transformation initiative, the company announced this week.
Identix Inc. has won a contract from the Sheriff's Office in Hennepin County, Minn., to expand a mobile identification network for officers in the field.
The Homeland Security Department has tapped Charlie Armstrong, the former CIO of the department's Border and Transportation Directorate, to be its deputy CIO.
Litigation filed by On Track Innovations Inc. over the rejection of its contactless chip technology for U.S. passports could further delay rollout of the documents.
The Health and Human Services Department awards contracts to public-private groups to accelerate the adoption of health IT and the secure portability of health data.
GPO officials anticipate issuing a solicitation for a master integrator for the Future Digital Content System in December, with a contract award in February 2006.
CW Government Travel Inc. has been awarded a contract from the Education Department to provide electronic travel services and an expense management system.
