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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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State CIOs Promote Business Innovation
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PS Federal Committee
This committee represents the interests of IT vendors in the federal civilian government marketplace. Since its inception, the committee has been an invaluable resource to members on issues such as technology trends, key issues and challenges affecting CIOs and CXOs, and allowing members to optimize business and networking opportunities. The members focus on business development and government customer interface. The members focus on business development and government customer interface. This is done through a series of programs and activities that aim to bring government customers before its members to discuss issues of mutual interest. Some of its signature programs include its monthly rountable series for senior government officials, its annual CIO survey, and its task groups which focus on issues of special interest to IT vendors. The Federal Committee meets monthly except for August and December--usually on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Its many task groups meet according to need. Please contact Olga Grkavac at olga.grkavac@techamerica.org if you have questions about this Committee.
- Chairman: Larry Konefal, Cisco
- Vice Chair: Debbie Granberry, SRA
20th Annual CIO Survey - Transparency and Transformation Through Technology
- “An important focus of the new administration has been to create a more open government, one is that is more transparent, participatory and collaborative,” said TechAmerica President and CEO Phil Bond. “Federal CIOs are excited about playing a key role in fundamentally changing how the federal government and its constituents interact through the use of information technology.”
- “The CIOs think that broadening public participation and involvement in government will create greater trust in government, increase the value that citizens receive from government, and unleash innovation with respect to governing and government services,” said Paul Wohlleben, a partner in the Global Public Sector practice at Grant Thornton, LLP.
- In support of open, transparent government, TechAmerica has found CIOs taking actions in two distinct areas – providing access to information through projects like Data.gov, USASpending.gov, Recovery.gov, and the Federal IT Dashboard, as well as increasing collaboration and participation through social media, Web 2.0 and Government 2.0, blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, public dialogue, and next generation Web applications.
- Looking ahead, CIOs see the following challenges (in order of priority):
- Cybersecurity
- IT Infrastructure
- IT Workforce
- IT Management
- Efficiency and Effectiveness
- Performance Management and Accountability
- Acquisition
- The survey reports data from in-person interviews with federal CIOs from civilian, homeland security and defense agencies in the executive branch, as well as key officials from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Congress.
Subcommittees
- 2010 Task Group Chair: Paul Wohlleben, Grant Thornton
An annual publication produced through personal member-conducted interviews of CIO’s and other senior government officials throughout the Federal Government to get an understanding of their concerns and priorities. The 2010 CIO survey, Transparency and Transformation through Technology was released at the March CIO Conference which featured the survey's results.
PS Small Business Subcommittee
- Chair: Leadership opportunities available. For more information contact Olga Grkavac.
- Vice Chair: Louis Matrone, IMC
This Subcommittee, which is jointly sponsored with the Procurement Policy Committee, focuses on the interests of the small and mid-size business within TechAmerica. It also monitors the concerns of large firms in meeting their small business goals. Current issues include the SBA’s proposal to modify the size standards.
PS Air Traffic Control (ATC) Subcommittee
- Chair: Ron Rhodes, OST
This Subcommittee is an industry liaison with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other government air traffic control-related agencies. Members have backgrounds in marketing, ATC and other FAA equipment procurement. Committee meetings feature FAA or other agency speakers discussing issues such as telecommunications programs, acquisition policies, budget matters, etc.
- Chair: Bill Perlowitz, Apptis
This Committee explores standards and programs currently being developed by the Federal Government for the adoption of cloud computing solutions (infrastructure as a service, software as a service, and platform as a service) in federal civilian space.
PS Federal Roundtable Dialogue Series
For over 20 years, the Federal Committee has hosted almost monthly roundtables with key government officials. Since 1988, TechAmerica members have had the opportunity to prepare questions for our guest speakers, most of whom have been Federal Agency CIOs and other senior officials, to foster a candid, high-value, substantive dialogue on issues facing government and industry alike.
For additional information, please contact Jennifer Kerber, Vice President, Federal & Homeland Security Policy, at 703.284.5337.
Documents and Resources
06-29-2010: BIO - Tim Grance, Senior Computer Scientist (ITL, NIST)
- Tim Grance, Senior Computer Scientist, Information Technology Laboratories, NIST briefed the PS Federal Cloud Computing Committee on June 29, 2010 on the Standards Acceleration to Jumpstart Adoption of Cloud Computing (SAJACC) program at NIST, and to talk about collaboration with the private sector vis-à-vis the incorporation of private sector use cases to inform approved specifications while NIST continues to develop mature standards for the use of cloud solutions in federal civilian space.
03-23-2010: BIO - Government Participants, TechAmerica 20th Annual Federal CIO Survey Event
03-23-2010: AGENDA - TechAmerica 20th Annual Federal CIO Survey Event
Categories: Public Sector
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing/Virtualization, Cyber Security/Information Assurance, cybersecurity, Federal Civilian Policy, IaaS, IPv6, Outreach, PaaS, PS, SaaS, Section 508 Accessibility, small business
This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 by Jason Langsner.
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- Federal Committee Meeting, Guest Speaker – Peter Tseronis, DoE – June 24th
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