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Contractors adjust to expectations of slower growth

The good news for government information technology contractors is that the annual $60 billion federal budget isn't likely to decline any time soon. The bad news is that the budget isn't likely to increase much, either, according to government and industry experts.

Weiterlesen: USA: Special Report on Contractors: Flat budgets ahead

The U.S. Small Business Administration today announced the launch of a Web site that will serve as the business gateway for U.S. businesses to connect with federal agencies, providing specific business tools and resources. Currently in its initial phase, Business.gov is a powerful Web site that will provide one-stop, online federal government information and services that businesses need and can access in one easy-to-find location.

Weiterlesen: USA:SBA Launches Business.gov Web Site to Connect Businesses with Fed. Agencies

The Bush administration is making progress, witnesses told a Congressional panel--but they didn't agree on how much.

The federal government is making progress on implementing a federal enterprise architecture, yet much more work needs to get done, witnesses testifying before a Congressional panel said Wednesday. However, the witnesses didn't agree on the amount of progress made.

Weiterlesen: USA: Federal Enterprise Architecture Needs More Work

The Federal Enterprise Architecture needs to move to a service-oriented architecture and away from one that focuses on symmetrical multiprocessor concepts, said a former federal CIO.

Mark Forman, who was the first e-government czar, said today at a discussion of service-oriented architecture and Web services in government IT that the FEA is at a critical juncture because agencies are slow to use the component-based architecture and adopt Web services.

Weiterlesen: USA: Forman calls for new approach to the Federal Enterprise Architecture