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Earlier this week, the President signed the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (S.1681 鈥� P.L. 113-126). The bill authorizes appropriations for intelligence and intelligence-related activities across 16 federal agencies in the intelligence community (IC).聽 The IT Alliance for Public Sector (ITAPS) has been monitoring provisions of interest for contractors as it moved through the legislative [...]
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Some good news coming out of the high-level U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) in Beijing this week is that China has signaled it is continuing domestic consultations to raise its level of ambition to expand product coverage of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA). And this signaling was apparent during the meetings today and yesterday at very senior levels. The bad news is that [...]
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Negotiations on the Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) launched this week at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva aimed at removing tariffs on a broad range of environmental technologies. 聽91快活林, as part of the Coalition for Green Trade, is advocating for a timely and ambitious negotiation of the EGA to ensure a wide range of new and innovative technologies designed to protect the environment [...]
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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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This week, the 91快活林 (91快活林) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly convened a dialogue on the ENERGY STAR庐 program that has reaffirmed the benefits that strong and focused public-private cooperation can generate. 聽The groundwork that was laid this week could evolve the ENERGY STAR program to achieve greater energy savings with significant benefits [...]
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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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We applaud Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) for introducing S. 2505, the bipartisan Wi-Fi Innovation Act.聽 Americans increasingly depend on smartphones and portable devices that rely on spectrum for connectivity and 91快活林 has long held the view that we must make efficient use of all spectrum to meet our nation鈥檚 growing demand.聽 The 5 GHz band provides tremendous opportunity to expand [...]
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With policy wallahs from around the world intensifying their focus on how India鈥檚 Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to breathe new life back into his country鈥檚 sputtering economy, 91快活林 (91快活林) President and CEO Dean Garfield sent a letter congratulating the new leader on his historic electoral victory and suggested policy recommendations intended to help set the stage [...]
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A majority of House members now support a bill that would update the woefully antiquated Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which specifies standards for law enforcement access to electronic communications. With 218 representatives backing H.R. 1852, the bipartisan 鈥淓mail Privacy Act,鈥� the House of Representatives should seize the opportunity to pass legislation that takes a meaningful step [...]
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