The Real ID Act requiring U.S. citizens to carry federally approved identification cards has created a potentially huge, unfunded mandate that is sending shock waves through state governments.
State and local governments are giving more consideration to use of open source code as another way to help them relieve continuing budget pressures, according to a market research.
CGI-AMS has won a contract from Kentucky to implement an enterprise resource planning solution to streamline business processes and improve productivity.
NEC Solutions America Inc. has entered into a partnership with Tropos Networks Inc. to provide wireless mobile data systems to police, fire and emergency medical personnel.
CGI-AMS Inc. has won a $2.7 million contract from the Internal Revenue Service to assist the agency with the first phase of its Filing and Payment Compliance initiative.
San Diego County has qualified eight systems integrators to compete for the renewal of its seven-year, $875 million enterprisewide IT outsourcing project scheduled for award later this year.
More than a half dozen state governments are poised to embark on enterprise resource planning projects this year as they try to improve their back office functions.
A unit of CompuDyne Corp. has won a $1.3 million contract from the Irving, Texas, Police Department to provide an integrated public safety and criminal-justice system.
The company has won a $39.4 million contract from the Air Force to support the military's next generation of joint and coalition network management systems.
States and counties waiting for additional guidelines from the federal government will be hard-pressed to get new voting systems deployed before next year's elections.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has hired consultant and <i>Washington Technology</i> columnist Tom Davies as senior vice president of business development for its Government Solutions Group.
