The Georgia General Assembly has allotted up to $2 million annually in credits for the 2008 and 2009 tax years for qualified employers.  Employers can receive up to a $20,000 tax credit for planning, consulting, training and/or raw labor costs associated with starting or expanding a telework program in the state.  Additionally, they can receive a $1,200 credit per new teleworker.

With this law, Georgia joins a growing number of states that provide various forms of tax incentives to employers who implement telework projects or provide mass transit and carpool subsidies to their workers.  Oregon, for instance, provides a 35% offset against corporate taxes for employer costs of telework programs and other energy saving expenses.

For more information on the Georgia Tax Credit contact Mike Levin, Executive Director, AeA Southeast Council, at 678.352.9469, and for information on the Oregon credit contact Jim Craven, Public and Legislative Affairs Director, AeA Oregon Council, at 503.624.6050.

RFID
For the last several years, AeA has been leading industry efforts to educate policymakers about Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in order to dispel myths surrounding the technology.  In support of this initiative, on September 19, Ben Aderson delivered a keynote address at the RFID World Conference in Boston.  He spoke to an audience of RFID experts about how policy could directly impact their businesses.

For more information on activity across the states or to get involved with AeA's State Government Affairs contact Ben Aderson.

Ben Aderson (bio)
Manager/Counsel, State Government Affairs and Technology Policy

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Sold-out Government-Industry Executive Interchange Draws 50+ Execs

On September 19, AeA conducted its Government-Industry Executive Interchange in the Association’s newly remodeled, state-of-the-art David Packard Conference Center.  This forum was held for Government and Industry executives to discuss their similar experiences, share insights, and exchange best practices.  Topics discussed were Health IT, Data Sharing, and Enterprise Architecture.

“These quarterly sessions have been very successful and are viewed as important must-attend events by top Government and Industry executives,” said Goldy Kamali, Director of AeA’s Government and Commercial Markets Group.  “Due to the format and intimate size of these meetings, senior executives have a true opportunity to exchange best practices and network with each other effectively.”

AeA's Government-Industry Executive Interchanges are DC's premier executive networking events that bring Federal CIOs, Program Managers, and Procurement Officials together with the leaders of the high-tech industry.  These gatherings attract a wide array of VIP attendees and sponsors.  Today’s session was sponsored by Cisco, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Adobe, Apple, Citrix, HP, Microsoft, and UHC.

Speakers included:

• Karen M. Bell, M.D., M.M.S., Director, Office of Health IT Adoption, HHS;
• Vernon Bettencourt, Acting CIO and current Deputy CIO, ARMY;
• Linda Boles, Business Development Manager, Federal Healthcare, Cisco Systems, Inc.;
• Robert Burton, Deputy Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget;
• Bobby Caudill, Group Manager, Global Government Solutions, Adobe;
• Teresa Carlson, Executive Director, Microsoft Federal;
• Alec Chalmers, Director of Sales for State and Local Government, and Education, Symantec;
• Soraya Correa, Director, Office of Procurement Operations, DHS;
• Casey Coleman, CIO of GSA;
• Jean Edwards, Architecture Manager, Sun Microsystems;
• Bill Hartwell, Vice President of Federal Area, Motorola;
• Mark E. Krzysko, Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, Business Transformation, DoD;
• Georgia K. Marsh, Identity Management Division, Office of Governmentwide Policy, GSA;
• Adair Martinez, Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Information Protection, Veterans Affairs;
• Helen Schmitz, Acting Chief IT Architect, NIH; and
• Marc Wine, Special Advisor to Director of TATRC, DoD.

For more information or to attend the next Interchange, planned for November 8, please contact Goldy Kamali, Director, Federal Government Market Group at 202.682.4432.