Office work tends to slow to a crawl in August with employees taking advantage of school breaks and warm weather to get out of the office. Government is no different.

Los Angeles County's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) William Fujioka presented his recommended

This year's 44th Annual IT Solutions Management (ISM) for Human Services Conference focused heavily on the importance of cust

Sitting in the audience at nearly any human services conference over the past year, it seems the same discussion is occurring over and over again with equal fervor and varying levels of frustration

As we near the tenth anniversary of 9/11, it seems wireless communication during times of crisis is still an uphill battle. Tuesday's 5.8-magnitude earthquake centered in Mineral, Va.

It's the law: The Defense Department must know how it spends every cent of its budget by 2017. But the agency said only 14 percent of its budget is now auditable.

The 44th Annual IT Solutions Management for Human Services (ISM) Conference was held August 14-17, 2011, at the Hilton hotel

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Agency heads must plan 2013 budgets that are up to 10 percent below this year's discretionary spending levels, according to newly released instructions from the Office of Management and Budget.

North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue recently announced that Secretary Reuben Young will lead the newly restructured Department of Public Safety.

Defense Department spending data submitted to Recovery.gov contained $1.7 billion in errors.

Federal financial managers are accustomed to dealing with budget challenges. But rarely have they faced the combination of challenges now heading their way:

Last week, the Virginia Information Technology Agency (VITA) issued a solicitation for its statewide two-way radio requirement.

Peter Grace, Director of Office of Strategic Planning and Management, HUD

Now that a debt ceiling deal is struck, agency financial managers are struggling to figure out their budgets for next year and beyond — and planning for the worst.

A Treasury Department push for electronic invoicing for federal contractors could speed payments and save the government $450 million a year, the government says.

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When looking back at the justice and public safety markets in July, it's nearly impossible to ignore the happenings of the Los Angeles County Regional Interoperable Communications System project (LA-R

With temperatures and deficit-debate tempers reaching record highs in Washington D.C., July also proved to be an interesting month in state and local health care and social services.

Fiscal year 2011 has been an unusual year in the federal space for sure.

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Today, the Obama Administration is announcing the launch of the Government Accountability and Transparency Board.

Worries about the Defense Department's implementation of enterprise resource planning systems increasingly encompasses data quality from feeder systems.

Cloud computing applications and solutions continue to be one of the hottest trends in the public and private sector today.

On July 12, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established new rules to enable public safety answering points (PSAPs) to obtain more accurate informati

As the federal government nears the brink of missing its self-imposed deadline for raising the debt ceiling, it's a good time to assess the potential impact on state and local governments and their co