American Management Systems Inc. has won a 29-month, $25.2 million contract from the Massachusetts Office of the State Comptroller to develop a statewide financial management system.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has signed a $23 million contract extension with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to continue providing administrative services to the state's Medicaid Primary Care Case Management System.
State officials have not significantly reduced planned spending on information technology programs, despite a $22 billion budget shortfall in state governments across the country, according to market research and consulting firm Input Inc.
City governments have made dramatic gains in putting information and services online in the past year, but they tend to rely too heavily on user fees and premium services that ultimately may limit user access, according to a new report.
ManTech International Corp. won a $21 million subcontract from Technical and Management Services Corp. to assist the company on an Air Force weapons system upgrade.
J. Clark Kelso has been appointed by California Gov. Gray Davis to serve as the state's new chief information officer and special adviser on information technology.
The Bush administration and Congress have not followed through on their pledge to provide state and local governments with nearly $6 billion in homeland security funding, said Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes at a Sept. 19 news conference in Washington to announce new homeland security initiatives by the states.
<FONT SIZE=2>On May 16, South Carolina Chief Information Security Officer Jim MacDougall discovered that the state's servers were being scanned for vulnerabilities by a hacker in Beijing. After informing Matt DeZee, the state chief information officer, MacDougall blocked out a range of Internet protocol addresses, including the ones scanning the system.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Both houses of Congress are working on legislation that would tighten security loopholes in the way states issue driver's licenses, but the bills may have a hard time passing this year because of concerns about privacy.</FONT>
Stanley Associates Inc. won a five-year contract to provide a wide range of information technology services to the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. won a $4 million contract from the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts to implement a statewide justice information management system, the company announced Sept. 9.
Twenty-one states have enacted driver's license security legislation this past year, a state legislator told the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation's subcommittee on highways and transit.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will distribute more than $900 million to state governments in coming months for bioterrorism preparedness, including about $300 million slated for information technology solutions.
Northrop Grumman Information Technology has won a three-year contract from the Louisiana Department of Social Services to provide information technology services to support agency operations.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. won a $234 million contract from the state of Ohio to operate the state's child support collection and disbursement unit.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a four-year, $157 million extension to continue providing a variety of information technology services to the Australian Federal Government.
Motorola Inc. has won two contracts totaling $44.6 million to provide public safety communications systems to large county governments in Maryland and North Carolina.
