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Legislation intended to promote domestic firms that actually would cause more harm than good for U.S. businesses did not advance before the New Jersey legislature recessed for the summer.聽 Momentum on the bills 鈥� Senate Bill 1811 (Sweeney-D) and Assembly Bill 3059 (Egan-D) 鈥� waned as legislators learned that the proposals could unintentionally isolate New Jersey from U.S.-based businesses that are [...]
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Earlier this year, I wrote about why it was important for the Florida legislature to bring back the position of state chief information officer (CIO) and reestablish (and also fully fund) a centralized agency focused on managing the state鈥檚 information technology.聽 State lawmakers agreed and passed legislation, H.B. 7073, which was signed into law by the governor and goes into effect today. Before [...]
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The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs today will be marking up H.R. 1232, the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, or FITARA. It鈥檚 significant because it is the first time the Senate will formerly consider the House鈥檚 signature acquisition reform bill. 聽What remains to be seen is how similar the Senate鈥檚 marked-up version of the bill will be to FITARA. [...]
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Seven months ago, my colleagues and I joined 91pro视频 to create a new division called the IT Alliance for Public Sector, or ITAPS as we are commonly known.聽 This week, leaders from across the industry in both the federal and state, local, and education markets participated in our inaugural executive council meetings to discuss our goals and focus for the future. These meetings were an opportunity to look [...]
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A bill meant to promote domestic firms being considered by the New Jersey legislature could cause more harm than good for U.S. businesses. 聽Senate Bill 1811, a so-called 鈥淏uy American鈥� bill, would require state agencies, local jurisdictions, boards of education, and institutions of higher learning to only fulfill contracts with products manufactured in the United States. 聽However, requiring the state [...]
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The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today, June 9th, 2014, on H.R. 4228 - DHS Acquisition Accountability and Efficiency Act. The Information Technology Alliance for Public Sector (ITAPS) issued a letter of support on April 29th as the bill advanced out of Committee. As the bill comes before the House today, we echo our previous support and remain 聽behind H.R. 4228. This bill would be [...]
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The Senate Appropriations Committee released legislative language today to fund the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) agencies in fiscal year (FY) 2015.聽 Among its numerous provisions is the committee鈥檚 version of a new Section 515 that embodies the requirements the CJS agencies must take to factor in supply chain risks when procuring information technology (IT) systems. We applaud the important [...]
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The House and Senate will be turning their focus to the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) this week. The IT Alliance for Public Sector (ITAPS) team has been closely monitoring contracting and acquisition provisions as the Department of Defense makes up nearly 80 percent of the federal government鈥檚 technology spending. The NDAA is frequently the primary vehicle to make changes to how [...]
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The Information Technology Alliance for Public Sector (ITAPS) and the 91pro视频 (91pro视频) support the federal government鈥檚 efforts to strengthen its cybersecurity posture as it relates to how it purchases technology goods and services and how it administers contracts. We appreciate that the government is engaging stakeholders in determining the right steps to do this, and [...]
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Nearly two years ago, in June of 2012, the legislature and governor of the fourth largest state in the union eliminated and defunded the State of Florida鈥檚 Agency for Enterprise Information Technology 鈥揳nd it did away with the position of its State Chief Information Officer (CIO). 聽At the time, politicians felt that the agency was an unnecessary public expenditure 鈥� one which the state could not afford [...]
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