South Carolina CIO Jim Bryant spoke recently with Washington Technology about disaster preparedness, major statewide IT initiatives, and building public-private relationships.
A new open IT standard, capable of facilitating emergency data sharing across local, regional, national and international governments and organizations has been ratified by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
As the Veteran's Affairs Department undergoes a major process and systems transformation, the agency will buy up to $365 million worth of Microsoft software and services from MicroTech LLC.
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font color> Phillip Bond, senior vice president of government relations at Monster Government Solutions Inc., has been named president and CEO of the Information Technology Association of America, the group announced this morning.
The Small Business Administration is proposing to implement a new regulation aimed at providing more contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses.
The Pennsylvania Transportation Department, seeking to bolster its IT security for state driver's license processes, has awarded Viisage Technology Inc. a series of contracts worth $45.5 million.
RS Information Systems Inc. has won a five-year, $111 million seat management and services contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Government interoperability and disaster preparedness experts painted a bleak picture of how much progress states have made toward communications interoperability since Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast last year.
We've grown fond of the way the Internet has made some of life's most tedious and time-consuming transactions less onerous. We no longer have to register our vehicles, pay parking tickets or even file taxes in person. Just fill out a form online, press "send," and get back to whatever you were doing. Citizens who receive public assistance are pressing for the same kind of online access from human services agencies.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers has released a brief on public-private partnerships with specific suggestions for companies working on IT initiatives with states.
The greatest challenge facing an organization intent on major changes is convincing people that such change is possible and getting them to buy into it, former IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti said today at the National Association of State CIOs midyear conference.
The closure of the Veteran's Contracting Office at the Small Business Administration and the planned cancellation of the Veterans Advisory Committee in September have drawn the ire of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.).
Karl Browning is intent on using IT to make the state of Indiana's government run more efficiently and with far more oversight of contracts and performance for both government agencies and private-sector partners.
As Gulf Coast businesses and residents look to get back to living normal lives after Katrina, Rita and Wilma, a new hurricane season approaches. And most businesses are not ready for what is likely to be another round of powerful storms, said Sue Hornstra Kerr, co-founder and co-president of Continuity First.
Logistics Applications Inc. finally won a facilities management services contract with the Energy Department, after the company's initial 2005 win of the deal was protested by the National Treasury Employees Union.
With an eye on improving its modeling, simulation and engineering capabilities, Alion Science and Technology Corp. has acquired Micro Analysis and Design Inc.
