Tasked with protecting 800,000 acres of pristine land at sites dispersed over Washington state, enforcement officers with the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife do not have the luxury of going to headquarters in Olympia every time they need to check a database or download a file.
Year after year, it's one of the leading types of airplane accidents: controlled flight into terrain. Pilots cannot see obstructions or they lose the horizon, and fatal accidents occur.
Rep. Tom Davis (R- Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, last week offered two suggestions for garnering greater participation from industry and government agencies in the Federal Technology Service's Networx telecommunications program:
Despite ambitious plans to begin rolling out the Secure Flight passenger-screening program early next year, the Transportation Security Administration has not yet finalized how the system will work or what information it will use.
The federal government awarded $155 billion in IT prime contracts in fiscal 2004, a 60 percent increase over IT-related spending in 2003, according to Reston, Va., market research firm Input Inc.
As chief information officer of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 1999, Larry Olson helped the state save more than $270 million by consolidating data centers, putting telecommunications services under one contract and building a common e-mail platform for state government.
The Montgomery County, Md., Office of Procurement plans to release a request for proposals in early January for a seat management contract. The current contract with L-3 Communications Inc. of New York expires in August. Seat management refers to outsourcing of desktop computers and related software, hardware, maintenance and help-desk support.
At least one of the seven new governors taking office in 2005 has first-hand experience using information technology to improve government performance.
The addition of a wide range of technologies and services to the General Services Administration's next-generation telecommunications contract has boosted the potential value of the vehicle to $20 billion.
The Defense Department comptroller now faces violations of the Antideficiency Act and is subject to criminal penalties and fines if he authorizes funds for any system that is worth $1 million or more and is not compliant with the Defense Department business enterprise architecture, said Marilyn Fleming, chief architect for the department's Business Management Modernization Program.
As officials at BAE Systems North America Inc. saw the federal landscape change, they decided to make some aggressive moves. Government agencies were contracting out more of their information technology needs, but they were bundling projects into fewer large contracts.
Akonix Systems Inc. launched a new system to block unmanaged access to instant messages and peer-to-peer file sharing. Akonix Enforcer v4.0 protects against risks from the unauthorized use of IM and P2P protocols such as eDonkey and BitTorrent.
A provider of satellite-based tracking, tracing, messaging and security services for ships, trucks and utilities received Coast Guard approval for its Ocean Alert Ship Security Alert System.
New London, Conn.-based Ortronics Inc. has designed a wireless solution to integrate with cabling to provide security and centralized management, company officials said.
Senforce Technologies Inc. has signed a four-year, departmentwide license with the Justice Department for its Enterprise Mobile Security Manager software.
