President Bush's new budget plan calls for industry to provide federal agencies with information technology solutions tailored to the government's needs, according to Mark Forman, the administration's point person on IT and e-government. Forman told technology executives that $30 billion of the $52 billion requested for IT in the president's fiscal 2003 budget will go toward projects that solve problems and help agencies achieve their goals.
Navy Rear Adm. Charles Munns is being assigned as program manager of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program office. Marine Corps Col. Robert Logan will be his deputy.
The Bush administration's fiscal 2003 budget request will include $52 billion for information technology spending, a 15 percent boost over current spending, according to Mark Forman, associate director for information technology and e-government in the Office of Management and Budget. The federal government will spend about $45 billion on information technology in 2002.
Karen Evans, chief information officer - The department fosters a secure and reliable energy system that is environmentally and economically sustainable. It is the trustee of the nation's arsenal of nuclear weapons and supports U.S. contributions to science and technology.
The departments of Defense and State are each building electronic systems designed to streamline the cumbersome U.S. export review process, but critics worry that industry's burden will be made heavier because the two systems may not be compatible.
Rapidly increasing defense and intelligence budgets. Congressional passion for easing procurement requirements to speed the acquisition of new technologies.
The FBI employee benefits information session is about to begin when Tom asks Pete, "What do you say if some dude's got a gun, and he's got someone hostage, and he says, 'I want a getaway car in 60 seconds or she dies.' "
Signal Corp. won a task order to provide knowledge management and technical support to the Army's Office of the Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications and Computers.
In a pair of new reports, a Washington think tank is pushing for governments to use advanced technologies in fighting terrorism and improving homeland security.
Armed with $3.4 million in federal funds, the 3-month-old nonprofit Telework Consortium in Herndon, Va., will demonstrate the benefits of teleworking, or working outside the office.
Attempts to limit government outsourcing will again be a flash point for the information technology industry when Congress comes back to Washington Jan. 23.
The General Services Administration, by putting a massive $35 billion ceiling on the Connections telecommunications program, has all but guaranteed that large numbers of systems integrators and telecom providers will vie for a spot on the new program.
