Recently at the National Contract Management Association’s World Congress in Denver, the clouds and storms that rolled into the mile-high city were harbingers of things to come for the week as the relationship between government and industry seems to continue a downward trend at a time when it needs to improve. However, it is theRead… Read more »
I went skydiving this past week, so naturally I found similarities between this and what I do for a living. Looking like an idiot is okay, just don’t be an idiot. Take a look at that picture. Yes, I look stupid. Dumb red cap. Well, it keeps you warm during the descent from 12,000 feet.Read… Read more »
Today, the TechAmerica Foundation released its report, Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud. It is a guide for the Obama Administration on “how government should deploy cloud technologies and for public policies that will help drive U.S. innovation in the cloud.” This continues a series of pushes for government toRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Joanna Salini reports. As the FCC’s narrowbanding mandate approaches, states and localities are scrambling to raise funds to upgrade their outdated radio systems. The FCC sent warning letters earlier this month to those localities not yet in compliance with the mandate. Many counties and municipalities have not only been pooling together to shareRead… Read more »
On 28 September 2011, FedCyber.com will present a one-day Government-Industry Cyber Security Summit to be held at the Newseum in Washington DC. The FedCyber.com Government-Industry Summit will bring together thought leaders who know the cyber mission in a venue designed to enhance our collective understanding of the threat, build on existing strategies to mitigate challenges,Read… Read more »
Government leaders and managers are increasingly doing business using methods and approaches that differ from the traditional contracts and grants process. Today, government leaders and managers need to know how to use innovative acquisition methods that shorten the lifecycle of a contract, as well as how to leverage new ways of tapping into the privateRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Kate Tussey reports. In any realm of government contracting, some states come out on top of others. South Dakota recently found itself on the losing side after pumping an estimated $49.7 million since 2008 into a Medicaid management information system (MMIS) that still remains inoperable. After two years of disputes with CNSI, theRead… Read more »
Last week the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority took a major step on its path to a new electronic fare system. A board committee approved a $9 million contract with LTK Engineering Services to manage installation of the system; the full board is expected to vote on Thursday. The $100 million project will allow passengers toRead… Read more »
An organizational meeting for UniversalCitation.org will be held 25 July 2011, at the Rutgers Camden Law School. UniversalCitation.org is a new, U.S.-based effort to urge governments to adopt non-proprietary legal citation standards, and to create new technologies that process and output non-proprietary legal citation information. According to the project’s Website, the organizers of this effortRead… Read more »
In our amazingly fast digital world, the collection of data has become very powerful. The power in numbers to help a client operate more efficiently, to help a lawmaker make a critical vote that will impact her constituents in countless ways, or even how an individual buys a car or house – all of theseRead… Read more »