When Stephen O'Keeffe introduced members of the newly formed advisory board of the Chief Information Security Officers Exchange at an April 5 press conference, the initiative seemed to have all the elements for success.
RS Information Systems Inc. has captured one of the first information services jobs for a young federal tax agency, winning a contract valued at nearly $50 million to provide technology support services to the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
In addition to all of the pricing, competition, human resources and other pressures facing government IT contractors, the Supreme Court just added one more: new exposure to age discrimination claims filed by older workers who are harmed by employment decisions that appear to be neutral.
As the federal telework initiative gains momentum, small and midsize vendors will have more opportunities to offer related products and services to the government, industry professionals said.
When a homemade bomb explodes in downtown Baghdad, its reverberations are felt as far away as Fort Polk, La., where U.S. soldiers train for duty in Iraq. The lessons learned on the ground about how insurgents use improvised explosive devices are transmitted immediately to Fort Polk's Joint Readiness Training Center.
State officials continue to face an uphill battle trying to get the federal government to ease rules governing how they can spend federal funds targeted for state IT systems.
Congress is moving to clip the wings of the Homeland Security Department's CIO and punish the department for ignoring demands from lawmakers for information.
GAO's report on how federal contracts were awarded to private companies to provide military support services in Iraq, did not take into account the severe battle conditions at that time.
Florida is considering creating a successor to the controversial Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange law enforcement database that shut down April 15 after its federal funding expired.
If ever the times demanded a culture of real innovation, that time is now. Tight budgets, ever-expanding missions and extraordinary human resource challenges have created unique and unrelenting tests for federal agencies.
E-government initiatives have been effective for transforming government service but have failed to bring about the much ballyhooed re-invention, said Martin Cole, chief executive of the global government group at Accenture Ltd., at the FOSE 2005 trade show, produced by PostNewsweek Tech Media, publisher of Washington Technology.
The U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology office is set to release a strategic plan as requested by Congress. Not surprisingly, the program office is expected to ask for more money.
