First responder spending is gradually shifting from emergency response to recovery operations, and the shift means that fewer dollars are flowing to firefighters and more is flowing to law enforcement.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has won a $12.5 million contract from the Delaware Administrative Office of the Courts to provide an integrated justice information management system.
<font color="CC0000"> (UPDATED) </font color> The Florida State Office of Technology is terminating contracts with BearingPoint Inc. Accenture Ltd. which will essentially kill the state's groundbreaking outsourcing project known as the MyFlorida Alliance.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a five-year, $74.8 million contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide hospital data abstraction and data validation services.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill this week requiring that all electronic voting systems produce a voter-verified paper audit trail by January 2006.
Identix Inc. has won a one-year, $2.2 million contract from the State Department to provide a biometric solution to support the department's visa processing services, the company announced today.
Tier Technologies Inc. has won a five-year contract from the New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to manage a data match program used to locate people who are delinquent on their child support payments.
<font color="CC0000"> (UPDATED) </font color>Virginia Secretary of Technology George Newstrom will resign from his post effective Oct. 1 to pursue other opportunities, Virginia Gov. Mark Warner (D) said this morning at the Virginia Information Technology Symposium in Norfolk.
A new oversight board in Virginia is charting a course toward an enterprise approach to technology as it continues to assert its control over all technology planning for the state.
When the Defense Logistics Agency awarded Accenture Ltd. a performance-based contract two years ago to modernize its supply chain management system, agency officials soon realized the "performance-based" aspect of the contract required as much work from them as it did from the contractor.
A wireless public safety project and an emergency management system are among the eight projects to be recognized this year by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.
Tom Jarrett, Delaware's secretary of technology and chief information officer, is the new president of the National Association of State CIOs. Jarrett said he will continue to push for aligning government technical investmetns with state business agendas.
The city of Biloxi, Miss., wanted to encourage its citizens to recycle motor oil and other petroleum products and drive them to their recycling Web site for more information. So they turned to action star Steven Segal for help.
States need to make fundamental changes to their budget processes if they expect to cope with the demands of federal mandates, author and consultant David Osborne told a gathering of state CIOs today.
The use of emerging technologies and open source code are among the hot topics that will be featured at the annual meeting of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers next week.
Hewlett-Packard Co. has won a 10-year, $290 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide data center consolidation services for the agency's Enterprise Data Center program.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has won a five-year, $51 million contract renewal from Louisiana to continue managing services for several key health care programs.
M/A-Com Inc. has won an $8.4 million contract from Cecil County, Md., to provide an interoperable communications solution for the county's public safety agencies.
Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell has suspended the decision by her predecessor to consolidate all state technology personnel into the state's Department of Information Technology.
