RS Information Systems Inc. won a contract, potentially worth $88 million, to provide systems management and engineering services to the Space Warfare Center of the Air Force Space Command.
National Information Consortium Inc. has won a five-year, $5.5 million contract with the Federal Election Commission to provide an electronic filing system for the disclosure of campaign finances.
Electronic Data Systems Corp. has won a three-year contract to provide California's Welfare Client Data System Consortium with a digital learning program to train its employees.
In a pair of new reports, a Washington think tank is pushing for governments to use advanced technologies in fighting terrorism and improving homeland security.
The Internal Revenue Service is re-examining whether to allow citizens to file income taxes directly online, a move that has raised the ire of tax preparation software companies and their supporters on Capitol Hill.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc., Dallas, won an eight-month, $30 million contract with a local social services agency in Texas to provide welfare and work-force services.
Stronger, more uniform processes are needed for issuing state driver's licenses before they can serve as secure identification, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators said.
Accenture Ltd. has won a $500,000, four-month contract from the Department of Agriculture to develop recommendations for a departmentwide e-government strategy.
Systems integrators specializing in the state and local market are seeing the federal government as fertile ground for information technology solutions originally developed for their state and local customers.
New York state officials likely will cut back spending on electronic government initiatives in the new fiscal year, redirecting millions of dollars to disaster recovery and emergency response in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, according to industry analysts.
George Newstrom, an executive with Electronic Data Systems Corp., has been appointed by Virginia Gov.-elect Mark Warner to serve as the state's secretary of technology, the governor's office announced. Newstrom is a senior vice president and president of Asia Pacific information solutions for EDS of Plano, Texas. Don Upson, the current secretary of technology, will continue to serve until Newstrom takes over March 1.
Three systems integrators signed new partnership agreements with companies that strengthen their ERP offerings, enhance Web and collaborative software capabilities and bring access to cutting edge technologies.
