Companies that want to help the Defense Department improve its security should bring solutions that expand its bandwidth, assure that its software is secure and have built-in redundancies, said Linton Wells, principal deputy undersecretary of Defense for command, control, communications and intelligence at the Industry Advisory Council's Executive Leadership Conference earlier this week in Hershey, Pa.
Treasury CIO Jim Flyzik and IBM executive Anne Altman are recipients of this year's awards, chosen by the CIO Council and sponsored by the FOSE trade show.
AT&T Corp. has won a contract worth $2 million annually to replace the search engine for FirstGov.gov, the federal government's one-stop portal for information and services, the General Services Administration announced.
Seeking to stake out a large chunk of territory in electronic government, Microsoft Corp.'s Chairman Bill Gates declared extensible markup language the language of government and Microsoft's .Net initiative as the best way to build e-gov applications.
