The Chiefs of Police Association of Pennsylvania recently awarded a $2 million contract to Printrak International Inc. of Anaheim, Calif., to develop an integrated mug shot imaging network. The contract is part of a statewide effort to link all mug shot imaging systems.
The city of Chicago has begun advertising the sale of its vacant lands and buildings on the Internet in a program that lets citizens preview properties put up for auction.
A $123 million project to build a new tax system for the commonwealth of Virginia should net returns for American Management Systems Inc. beyond the borders of its home state, company officials said.
One of the greatest challenges facing the states is how to collaborate on solving common information technology problems. State IT leaders are aware of the need to collaborate but have lacked an effective means to do so.
A Massachusetts-led project to build an online procurement system is creating an opportunity for a large systems integrator and its software developer partner to roll out similar systems in other state and local governments as well as in the federal government.
State governments, which have some of the largest administrative systems in the country, historically have sought custom solutions for their enterprisewide administrative needs. But momentum is beginning to swing in the opposite direction.
Take a mainframe environment in a major state agency and demand from end users for a simple front-end system and no-nonsense answers to financial questions, and you quickly find yourself on the verge of a migraine-size problem seeking an imaginative IT solution.
