The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will launch a system March 1 so law enforcement and financial institutions can transmit information about people they suspect of financing terrorist activities or laundering money
State and local governments in the next several years will move to sharply align their IT investment with desired public policy outcomes in such areas as healthcare, human services and economic development, according to a new study.
The Small Business Administration is changing its Historically Underutilized Business program to help small businesses create more jobs in economically distressed communities.
The federal telework law will bring more business to systems integrators and other contractors, but agencies still need to figure out how to comply with the four-year-old legislation, said Jim Shanks, president of CDW Government Inc., Herndon, Va.
President Bush last night gave a nod to two federal IT initiatives in his fifth State of the Union address: the federal health IT architecture and the government's entry-exit system.
The federal telework law will bring more business to systems integrators and other contractors, but agencies still need to figure out how to comply with the four-year-old legislation.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the final public draft of recommended security controls for federal systems, a fine-tuned version of a document that will become a mandatory Federal Information Processing Standard by the end of the year.
The Small Business Administration is changing its Historically Underutilized Business program to help small businesses create more jobs in economically distressed communities, the agency said today.
The extraordinary financial and human capital challenges facing the federal government will be with us for many years. Because their dimensions and impacts are so significant, it is more important than ever that agencies have access to a wide range of innovations that will let them do much more with much less.
SI International Inc. plans to spend $75 million to buy Shenandoah Electronic Intelligence Inc., a Harrisonburg, Va., company with strong ties to the Homeland Security Department.
The Homeland Security Department has revised its rules on whether contractors can use foreign nationals on its contracts. The new rules clarify the situations in which foreign nationals are precluded from working on DHS contracts, but they also create challenges for many contractors.
The National Park Service is looking for an electronic incident management, analysis and reporting system for law enforcement, emergency management and security activities. The system will manage information about incidents related to facilities, including prisons, roads, rivers, dams, deserts, mountains and archeological sites. Incidents may include law enforcement, search and rescue, emergency management services, wild and structural fires and resource observations.
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency seeks vendors to provide technical assistance to the Kenya Revenue Authority for a computerized integrated tax system.
The Air Force Special Operations Command wants information about commercial equipment for its Man Portable Air Defense training system. The system will incorporate missile warning system simulation and visual cueing.
The government last month unveiled a new plan that calls for overhauling the nation's air transportation system in anticipation of dramatically increasing demand for air space.
Systems security concerns caused the Veterans Affairs Department's and the Small Business Administration's e-government initiatives to drop a grade each in the latest ratings on the President's Management Agenda.
