People
VA turns to Plateau for e-learning system
The department awarded Plateau Systems a $10 million contract to help train VA employees and meet federal mandates.
Acquisition
GSA picks Symplicity -- again -- to redo FedBizOpps.gov
The contract has been hung up in protests for more than three years.
Modernization
Education Dept. taps Perot for IT infrastructure work
The department will move its network infrastructure from a government-owned environment to one owned and operated by a contractor.
People
Emergency responders to have online info source
FEMA awarded a contract to make its Emergency Management Information System a single repository for emergency management information.
People
Budget agreement in Michigan averts 35,000 layoffs
State employees, including 1,700 in the IT Department, spent much of the weekend wondering if they should report to work today.
Acquisition
USDA first to award SmartBuy encryption contract
The department awarded SafeBoot a $1.8 million contract to provide 180,000 licenses for the company's encryption services and support.
People
TechTeam Government Solutions names three VPs
The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of TechTeam Global, is pushing business development.
People
DHS signs on to create threat assessment coordination group
Lawmakers hope the group will improve how federal, state and local officials create and share intelligence.
People
Letter: DISA behind the SOA curve
The agency wastes money on testing when industry solutions already exist.
Digital Government
Letter: Voting laws, not technology, are the problem
Had state election laws been on par with technology in 2000 and 2006, elections those years would have been automatic do-overs.
People
Letter: State Department Web site still dry
The new Dipnote blog has not made a difference in openness or entertainment, a reader says.
Digital Government
FCW Download and Table of Contents
Table of Contents for this weeks's magazine and some extras.
Modernization
Broadband operators reject ding-a-ling answers
Scottsburg, Ind., officials got tired of waiting for broadband service to come, so they created their own
People
Talking across the fence
IT industry groups have complex relationships with the federal agencies and lawmakers they often collaborate with
People
Tickets to travel
How border states, with the blessing of the Homeland SecurityDepartment, are setting their own card standards for identifying travelers at border crossings
People