Unisys Corp. has hired former Missouri Chief Information Officer Gerry Wethington as vice president for homeland security and justice and public safety programs.
The General Services Administration hopes the success of its Quicksilver projects will convince Congress to let it use surplus funds from its IT sales and services operations to support e-government initiatives next year.
President Bush has used the bully pulpit to advocate for the adoption of health IT, such as electronic health records, and in fiscal 2006 he has requested $125 million to back up that talk.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency have released a specification to standardize IT security checklists.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology Jan. 31 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.
Thales e-Security Inc. is finishing work on an encryption appliance to secure legacy process control systems that regulate much of the nation's critical infrastructure.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency have released a specification to standardize IT security checklists.
Designed to have thousands of systems run on it, the Defense Department's new enterprise architecture will usher in what some people are calling the biggest IT transition ever done.
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.
UPDATED: Computer Sciences Corp. and Raytheon Technical Services Co. win systems development and integration contracts with the Patent and Trademark Office, allowing the two companies to compete for work at the agency, officials at the Patent Office said.
Accenture LLP won a five-year, $87 million contract to help the U.S. Mint operate and improve the business systems and processes that support its retail sales and marketing activities.
The Air Force Research Laboratory wants to build a modular data network that can integrate everything from tactical unmanned aerial vehicles to ground forces.
The Office of Management and Budget has tapped Stacie Higgins as its new manager of the government-to-government Quicksilver portfolio and Grants Management Lines of Business initiative.
The Washington Department of Social and Health Services is planning an RFP for late January for a portable communications device for people who are both deaf and blind. The state needs a contractor to design, produce, market and support such devices.
The Indiana Department of Revenue wants data query and analysis tools and services to use with information stored in its return processing system. No date has been set for the RFP. The tools and services will let information stored in the returns processing system be accessed for queries, extracted for analytical purposes and used for "what if" analysis and data mining and for faster access to decision-making data.
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Service wants to deploy an enterprise invoice management system. An RFP is expected this month. The vendor would design, develop, implement and operate the system.
