Cybersecurity
New SmartBuy deals on the way
GSA plans to take an existing Defense agreement with IBM, extend it governmentwide and call for bids on a new antivirus contract.
Modernization
Mercy for tsunami victims?
Pentagon officials may deploy the USNS Mercy and its advanced communications capabilities to help tsunami victims.
People
FirstGov gets tsunami info
FirstGov.gov has gathered Web addresses meant for searching for U.S. citizens affected by the disaster.
Modernization
Apple discounts storage
Fed agencies get $500 off on Apple's Xsan storage-area network file system.
People
GAO: Feds meet e-gov strictures
Or at least most of the ones in the first two parts of the E-government Act.
People
IRS predicts electronic tax filings will pass 50 percent mark
The IRS anticipates that more than half of all taxpayers will file electronically during the 2005 tax-filing season that begins today.<@SM>
Digital Government
RFID to track SSA material
Radio frequency identification tags will help agency manage orders for pamphlets, forms.
Modernization
Army buys more network gear
Joint Network Node to support IP-based voice, video and data communications.
People
Former congressman joins House committee staff
Ed Schrock will work as a House Government Reform Committee staffer.
Acquisition
SBA: Large firms credited with small-biz deals
Report shows that $2 billion worth of federal contracts went to companies miscoded as small businesses.
Digital Government
Military sends teams to deal with tsunami aftermath
Teams reaching devastated South Asia zone expected to provide communications infrastructure, water and other humanitarian aid.
Digital Government
A place for your old computer
The EPA has created a new program to help federal agencies dispose of obsolete hardware.
Modernization
CMS to apply business rules engines to claims processing
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has requested information on two technologies that could revolutionize the way health care claims are settled.
Digital Government
Web aids tsunami response
The Internet is being used to help find people and link resources around the world in the aftermath of the tsunami tragedy.
Modernization
Hometown supports Illinois soldiers
Paris, Ill., raises money to buy radios and GPS receivers to help equip a local guard unit.
People
Air Force picks four environmental vendors
Vendors will share work under the $850 million Global Engineering, Integration and Technical Assistance program.
People
DHS chooses E-Travel vendor
Homeland Security has set a deal with E-Travel vendor EDS for electronic-travel services for the department.<@SM>
Acquisition