Looking to open the door to a lucrative market, Hansen Information Technologies Inc. has struck a strategic alliance with Agresso Americas to provide a government-focused enterprise resource planning solution.
Having lost its chief information officer to political infighting in December, Massachusetts appointed a permanent replacement this week, naming Louis Gutierrez head of the Information Technology Division.
Female entrepreneurs looking to start or grow a business now have a new planning tool?MY BIZ for Women, an online resource from the Small Business Administration that provides business information and assistance just for women.
When Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn resigned in December, citing political turmoil that threatened to derail the state's adoption of an open-standards format for software, the behind-the-scenes battle between open-standards advocates and proprietary vendors went public.
A study released this week by the National Association of State CIOs recommends that the Homeland Security Department foster stronger ties with state CIOs and create a cyber security review team within the department.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted this week to finalize a seven-year, $667 million contract for Northrop Grumman Corp. to take over the county's IT and telecommunications operations.
Spurred by the need to replace outdated systems and to offset anticipated future government IT workforce shortages, state and local governments are expected to increase their spending on IT outsourcing from $10 billion in fiscal 2005 to $18 billion by fiscal 2010, according to a report by Input Inc.
Tier Technologies Inc., Reston, Va., won a $1.1 million contract to make improvements to the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services' interactive voice-response system and install a new claims application-by-telephone system.
The New Zealand government will continue to rely on Unisys Corp. to collect and safeguard the country's vehicle and driver information under a new contract.
The Homeland Security Department announced this week that the date that proposals are due for FirstSource, its small-business only contracting vehicle, has been pushed back to Feb. 9.
Rome Research Corp.,a unit of PAR Technology Corp., won a contract with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to provide IT instruction and help-desk services for a work flow program involving vendors that work with the agency.
New York Gov. George Pataki (R) filled two key IT leadership posts in the state this week, naming Meg Levine as director for the Office for Technology, and Michael Mittleman as chief information officer.
IT outsourcing by the federal government is expected to grow more than $5 billion over the next four years, according to a report released this week by the Reston, Va., market research firm Input Inc.
Northrop Grumman Information Technology won a 25-month, $36.4 million contract with Stafford County, Va., to design and build a public safety center for county police, fire and rescue, and emergency operations.
