Digital Government
NASCIO goes to Washington
Twenty-one state CIOs took their concerns about cybersecurity and identification cards to Capitol Hill.
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Feds hunt for XML core
The National Information Exchange Model seeks to identify a core set of schemas and ensure their standardization.
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Agencies to form commodity councils
If agencies can drive a better deal by bringing purchases together, OMB will ask them to do it, the head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy says.
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NC develops skills
The governor’s office will devote money and personnel in developing the state’s Center for 21st Century Skills program.
Digital Government
St. Louis tackles bus maintenance
Accenture is developing a system that analyzes real-time data from sensors on St. Louis buses.
Cybersecurity
Security group wants ideas
An interagency task force is appealing to industry for ideas to improve security while reducing costs.
Digital Government
More Medicaid IT outsourcing?
Spending on outsourced Medicaid Management Information Systems will rise by one-fifth, Input says.
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TopOff exercise heads off virtual terrorists
Emergency workers respond to new and imagined threats.
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Sharing drives DHS data project
DHS officials are translating the responsibilities into a data architecture.
Digital Government
EDS keeps Medicaid work
Rhode Island will continue using EDS to process Medicaid claims.
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State and local officials look to outsourcing
Retiring workforce driving new push to contract out services.
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Risk or population?
Congress will consider distributing homeland security money based on risk rather than on population.
Digital Government
Philly releases Wi-Fi RFP
Philadelphia issues a request for proposals for its widely reported Wi-Fi plan.
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RFI released for cross-agency security
The request for information identifies five network security areas that could benefit from a governmentwide approach.
Cybersecurity
Security forum members to meet in May
The Chief Information Security Officers Exchange has already started working to raise the federal government’s security grade.
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