The federal and state governments and industry will have to collaborate to achieve a health care system made up of local and regional interoperable networks, Health and Human Services secretary Michael Leavitt said today.
The Federal Aviation Administration awarded Raytheon Co. a contract option to continue deployment of the new color display Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System.
The Government Accountability Office has thwarted a $1 billion Treasury Department award to AT&T Corp. after it learned that agency had entered into an agreement that encouraged it to let the contract expire early.
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED</font color> The Government Accountability Office has sustained protests filed by three companies against the Treasury Department's award of the $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract to AT&T.
The Transportation Department issued a request for program IT support services for its newly formed Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
The Treasury Department did not adequately manage the building of a new HR system, pushing the price much higher than at other federal agencies, according to a new inspector general report.
President Bush has used the bully pulpit to advocate for the adoption of health IT, such as electronic health records, and in fiscal 2006 he has requested $125 million to back up that talk.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will launch a system March 1 so law enforcement and financial institutions can transmit information about people they suspect of financing terrorist activities or laundering money
The Department of Housing and Urban Development wants industry sources to support deployment and testing of PeopleSoft financial management software for the Federal Housing Administration Subsidiary Ledger.
An anemic 2005 budget will force the IRS to curtail work on most efforts to modernize its business systems and instead focus on payment and compliance and improving tax administration, said IRS CIO Todd Grams today.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services seeks information from database vendors on the GSA schedule about the capabilities of their platforms to handle extraordinarily large volumes of data.
If it has to, the Federal Aviation Administration will forgo some of its systems modernization to cover salary and training for the 12,500 air traffic controllers it expects to hire during the next 10 years.
<font color="CC0000"> (UPDATED) </font color>Qwest Communications Inc. and two other vendors have protested the award to AT&T Corp. of the potentially $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract.
The Education Department is seeking information from industry on how to exchange data between state systems that handle information about migrant students.
