WITC is affiliated with the American Council for Technology or ACT (formerly the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils or FGIPC). ACT was originally created by Executive Order of the President of the United States on June 28, 1966, and a congressional resolution contained in H.R 4845, 89th Congress. Today ACT is a not-for-profit corporation established in December 1979 to facilitate and encourage professional communication between organizations of the government information technology (IT) community located across the country, between those organizations and industry, and between those organizations and central management (regulatory and oversight) agencies in Washington, DC. For more information on ACT, visit www.actgov.org.