On July 16-20, 2010, the National Association of Counties (NACo) held its annual conference in Reno, Nevada. NACo is currently the only national organization representing county government.

The 13th National Child Welfare Data and Technology Conference took place July 19-21, 2010 in Bethesda, Maryland.

INPUT recently released a report titled "Congressional Public Safety Funding Requests: A $1 Billion Lifeline for IT Projects,"

INPUT recently released a report titled "Congressional Public Safety Funding Requests: A $1 Billion Lifeline for IT Projects," w

Next week, INPUT's Justice and Public Safety (JPS) team will attend the Arizona Association of Public Safety Communication Officials/National Emergency Number Association (APCO/NENA)

Exciting news this month in health care was the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (ONC) release of the final temporary certification

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently accepting applications from states through August 3, 2010 for http://www.cms.gov/DemoProjectsEvalRpts/downloads/mapcpdemo_El

This month, a few of INPUT's health and social services analysts, myself included, headed downtown to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) 2010 Government Health IT Conf

After almost two years of planning and project development, the city of Indianapolis recently awarded its long-awaited enterprise resource planning (ERP) system contracts.

The General Services Administration released numbers on state and local government's use of GSA Schedule 70 (what GSA calls its

The California County of Solano Department of Mental Health plans to release a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the im

Today, Connecticut Governor M.

The 5th Annual State and Local Procurement Symposium: "Pointing the Way, State and Local Procurement in Challenging Times," was held May 13-14, 2010, in Seattle, Washington.

In late 2009, the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued a request for information (RFI) to determine how the agency could establish a large scale, statewide automated ticket enforcement sy

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) established a web forum for health information technology (HIT) stakeholders to open the lines of communication and learn

The Federal Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program has recently been receiving considerable attention in the

The 9th Annual National Child Welfare IT Managers' Meeting, sponsored by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Children's Bu

As INPUT is attending this year's International Association Chiefs of Police / Law Enforcement Information Manage

Yesterday, I attended a cloud computing forum and workshop hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The 2010 Health Information Technology: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs, and Improving Quality National Conference, hosted by Governor Deval L.

For a while now, INPUT has speculated that federal immigration reform would have some impact on the states and localities.

The State of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare (DPW) released a notice that it will hold an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Contracting Vendor Forum on May 20, 2010 in preparation for an up

Today, CGI Group announced its planned acquisition of Stanley, Inc. for $1.1 billion.

Rich Varn, the futurist former CIO of Iowa and current CIO of San Antonio, used to joke about how TV shows like "24" and the CSI franchise create a ridiculously false impression of government IT.

If you have had the pleasure of attending a National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) "How to Market to State Governments" meeting before, you know it is a great opportunity to under