The Washington State Department of Information Services is planning two solicitations for a justice information network. One will be for the design of the network's technical architecture, and the other will be for the network's enterprise service architecture.
When California officials contracted out the state portal four years ago, their strategy was the antithesis of an enterprise approach. Rather than awarding one prime contract, they awarded 20 contracts to six contractors.
Two and a half years ago, Ken Buck was glad to leave his job promoting share-in-savings contracting for the General Services Administration. He was frustrated that few agencies and contractors had tried the method, despite its authorization by law in 1996.
The telecommunications industry is once again in a state of flux. Still acclimating to the flood of competition unleashed by the 1996 Telecommunications Act and licking its wounds from a scandal-tainted 2000 market crash, the industry now must grapple with how best to deliver a wide variety of services over a changing network infrastructure.
Don't forget about the 33 percent of American adults who aren't using the Internet, or the novice users who don't know their way around a Web page, Dave Girouard, general manager of enterprise for Google Inc., warned government and industry information technology executives today in Philadelphia.
Federal officials are hoping to bolster support among states for an anti-terrorism information-sharing network with a new approach that would let each state keep greater control over its information.
The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service created the Center for Acquisition Excellence, which will provide free online training on several GSA purchasing programs.
Information Systems Support Inc. has been added to the Washington Technology 2004 Top 100 at No. 48, with prime IT contracting revenue of $138.7 million for the 12 months from July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003.
The good news for government information technology contractors is that the annual $60 billion federal budget isn't likely to decline any time soon. The bad news is that the budget isn't likely to increase much, either, according to government and industry experts. "There aren't huge dollars available to increase the IT budget, but the IT pie is going to be divided differently," said <b>Debra Stouffer</b>, former chief information officer at the Environmental Protection Agency and now an executive at DigitalNet Holdings Inc.
Advanced Technology Systems Inc. has implemented an application that allows electronic payments and account reconciliation at the Housing and Urban Development Department.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color> The three federal E-Travel vendors now have until Dec. 31 to sell the 24 largest federal agencies on their travel management systems.
Companies responding to the federal government's request for information for new e-government projects should provide ideas for systems that integrate existing initiatives.
The United States fell from third to sixth place in an annual global survey of nations' e-readiness, largely because other countries had greater adoption of broadband Internet access.
