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President Obama Proposes a Better R&D Tax Credit
On September 8, TechAmerica expressed strong support for a stronger and permanent federal research and development (R&D) tax credit such as the one proposed by President Barack Obama in a speech today....
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Salesforce Chairman & CEO to Receive Award
Since 1959, TechAmerica's David Packard Medal of Achievement, honors significant lifetime contributors and pioneers of the high-tech industry...
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State CIOs Promote Business Innovation
TechAmerica, NASCIO, and Grant Thornton's CIO Survey report emphasizes the need to upgrade IT governance and strengthen central IT organizations...
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Federal Government Affairs
The Federal Commercial Policy activities of TechAmerica are overseen by a new Commercial Federal Policy Committee. All Federal Policy Committees report into this committee. The Federal Policy Committees are where the day-to-day policy and communications on commercial federal policy
Policy Issues/ Committees || Staff
Federal: Policy Issues
The committee infrastructure is as follows:
- Commercial Federal Policy Committee
- ARRA (American Recovery & Reinvestment Act) / Stimulus
- Cloud Computing (joint with Public Sector (PS))
- E-Commerce & Telecommunications
- Energy & Smart Grid (joint with PS)
- Environmental
- Government Market / Procurement Policy
- Health IT (joint with PS)
- Immigration
- Information Security
- Intellectual Property
- PAC (joint with PS)
- Privacy Task Group (working group of E-Commerce and Telecom and Information Security Committees)
- Small Business Policy Council
- Tax & Fiscal Policy
These Committees work on the key legislative, regulatory and legal issues that confront the industry. What follows is a series of one pagers on each of these committees and what professionals what might be interested in participating.
Staff Contact Info: Get Involved Today
Kimberly L. Allman (bio)
Senior Vice President, State Government Affairs and Interim SVP of Commercial Policy
202.682.4450
kim.allman@techamerica.org
Liesyl Franz (bio)
Vice President, Information Security Programs and Global Public Policy
202.682.4434
liesyl.franz@techamerica.org
Marie Lee
Vice President & Counsel, Tax Policy
202.682.4448
marie.lee@techamerica.org
Christopher E. Wilson
Director and Counsel, E-Commerce & Telecommunications
202.682.4451
chris.wilson@techamerica.org
Randi Meyers
Director and Counsel, Federal Government Relations
202.629.0216
randi.meyers@techamerica.org
Bartlett Cleland
Senior Director, Policy
703.626.8478
bartlett.cleland@techamerica.org
Eric Ebenstein
Manager and Counsel, Domestic Policy
202.682.4439
eric.ebenstein@techamerica.org
Hamed Ghaemi
Legislative Assistant, Commercial Policy
202.682.4455
hamed.ghaemi@techamerica.org
For additional information on TechAmerica's federal government affairs activities, please contact Kim Allman at 202.682.4450 or kim.allman@techamerica.org.
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This entry was posted on Monday, May 18th, 2009 by Jason Langsner.
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