The Bush administration's 24 cross-agency e-government initiatives are paving the way for greater collaboration and information sharing among federal, state and local governments, officials said.
Debate about public-private job competitions is heating up on Capitol Hill as lawmakers await an independent report recommending improvements in conducting the competitions.
The House of Representatives March 20 approved 421-0 a bill that would allow increased telecommuting among private-sector employees doing work for the federal government.
The Department of Defense last week released initial details of its fiscal 2003 budget request for information technology and national security systems. The details show the Defense Department will remain an aggressive implementer of information technology.
The Freedom to Telecommute Act, allowing increased telecommuting among private-sector employees working for the federal government, was unanimously approved.
An Army information technology officer will sign up with Gen. Halftrack and the Camp Swampy crew this week. The new character in the 52-year-old Beetle Bailey cartoon strip will debut at the FOSE 2002 trade show at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center.
The House Government Reform Committee approved three bills that would reform the acquisition process and aid information technology employees in the public and private sectors.
Chances are good that only a close acquaintance or family member, perhaps two, know how you handle your money, what you go to the doctor for, and what landed you in jail for a night when you were 18.
Senior government officials are putting a higher priority on electronic government than they did a year ago, but they are walking a tightrope to balance the twin tasks of developing e-government and beefing up the security of their IT systems, recent studies show.
SAS Institute Inc. announced it will acquire ABC Technologies Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ABC Technologies will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS.
Two congressmen introduced legislation to improve how the government purchases and uses information technology by extending a pilot program that uses simplified acquisition procedures, establishing an exchange program for public-private IT managers and preventing federal contractors from being penalized for using telecommuting.
Three executives of Commerce One's e-government division and three institutional investors have negotiated a $9 million buyout of the operation. The firm, now called Aquilent, will officially open March 4.
The Bush administration wants to end a grant program aimed at training U.S. high-tech workers, and instead is proposing that in fiscal 2003, the program's funds be redirected to help foreign workers gain permanent employment status.
The Small Business Administration's reviews of subcontracts offered to small firms do not effectively ensure that small businesses get the biggest possible share of $77 billion in subcontracting awards under the Small Business Subcontracting Program, Sen. Kit Bond said Feb. 20.
Vice President Cheney unveiled a redesigned FirstGov.gov Web site at a White House press conference Feb. 27. The redesign is one of the administration's first high-profile accomplishments in its efforts to expand Web-based government services. The relaunch of FirstGov starts the deployment of the federal e-government strategy.
