Some agencies are already investing in intranet technology. The Electronic Commerce Council has released an RFI to the vendor community and has received good response. If anyone is interested in reading these RFI's, contact the CIO staff to gain access to them on a secure section of the CIO's website. The ECC will meet later this week to review them. He hopes that much of the money for converting to digital television will be federal.
Seats are still available if anyone is interested in signing up.
GOPB is not going to take any money out of the existing budget. The reduction was made possible due to recent audits regarding new device counts on the network which revealed the current rates would result in over-collecting. Dave mentioned the the CIO News Update and Technology Brief was distributed through a separate mailing. It is available on the CIO website for those who did not receive a copy. Budget increase requests from the agencies were presented to the IT Commission yesterday, and.a copy of the report was distributed.