California established its new state technology services department last month with a mission: send a clear signal to agencies and industry that the state is serious about consolidating central IT services and functions and leveraging its buying power.
Physicians who bilk Medicare on claims soon may be unable to hide among the system stovepipes of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Officials are modernizing CMS' data collection and storage systems, hoping to bring down the agency's soaring rate of improper payments and reduce waste, fraud and abuse.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) says the General Services Administration should conduct more post-award contract audits to ensure the federal government is getting the best possible prices on contracts.
The agency is trying to collect information to help the Office of Management and Budget finalize requirements for the federal identity card called for in Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12.
Share-in-savings contracting is struggling to get off the ground, with no contracts awarded that use the procurement method authorized in the E-Government Act of 2002.
Rhonda Joseph has assumed the enterprise architecture responsibilities previously held by Darren Ash as deputy associate CIO for the Transportation Deparment.
The Commerce Department agency will seek IT services for help desk, seat management, Web programming and development, network operations center, e-mail operations and other services supporting the IT infrastructure.
The Veterans Affairs Department has issued a draft request for proposals for its five-year, $1.4 billion Procurement of Computer Hardware and Software contract
Unisys Corp. has won a contract extension from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services to continue supporting its benefit eligibility system.
After issuing an amendment diminishing the requirement for integrated IT security between the system and other agency applications, GSA asked companies bidding on the contract to resubmit the portion of their proposals that the new amendment affected.
The National Archives and Records Administration has successfully achieved all major targets thus far for its Electronic Records Archives project to manage petabytes of information.
Dustin Lanier knows it won't be easy getting more than 200 agencies to turn over responsibility for their IT infrastructures to the Texas Department of Information Resources when a new state law takes effect Sept. 1.
It is one of the Homeland Security Department's most tantalizing, big-ticket, system integration projects on the horizon ? but it's been stalled for months as Congress and federal officials review the goals of the department and examine allegations of mismanagement in a related legacy system.
