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‘All hands on deck:’ From Hawaii to Texas, FEMA employees pitch in on Helene response

FEMA personnel, even those not deployed, are working long hours to get supplies where they are needed.

  • By Eric Katz

How one small business chipped away at the market and captured a $75M opportunity

LeapFrog Soutions builds off early success to land large marketing deal with FEMA; eyes growth in health IT.

  • By David Hubler

ICF award helps FEMA prepare for radiological emergencies

ICF International Inc. has won a five-year recompete contract worth more than $15 million to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency implement its Radiological Emergency Preparedness program.

  • By David Hubler

FEMA releases preparedness app in time for hurricane

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced a new mobile application for disaster preparedness on Android, but some users apparently were confused by an apparent rogue application, also available from Android.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Will a national alert system be ready for the next emergency?

Tuesday afternoon's 5.8 earthquake left hundreds of thousands of people along the East Coast temporarily without cell-phone service as circuits became overloaded and communications in many cases was reduced to texting or tweets. So what's a nation to do?

  • By David Hubler

Lieberman tells FEMA to centralize IT

FEMA can't manage its IT systems with an uncoordinated approach to building systems, senator says.

  • By Matthew Weigelt
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Tweeting tornado warnings a good idea despite limitations, bloggers say

Using Twitter to spread a disaster warning message has advantages and disadvantages, bloggers write.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

QinetiQ continues FEMA, DHS integration services

QinetiQ North America has won a two-year option award worth up to $15.6 million to continue to provide Asset Tracking Services to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

  • By David Hubler

Many federal blogs wither from neglect

Our Dying Blog List highlights those in critical condition. Help us add to it.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Five years after Katrina, government IT still feels storm's fury

Five years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, the region continues to rebuild and the federal government is still trying to fix information technology-related problems that the storm and its aftermath exposed.

  • By Ben Bain

Seeking disaster relief? Who you gonna call?

FEMA chief architecture talks about DisasterAssistance.gov success stories at GTRA.

Northrop leads team to aid FEMA

Northrop Grumman Corp. will provide operational support for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s regional preparedness exercises under a 20-month, $5.5 million task order.

  • By David Hubler

Team wins award for State Dept. project

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Agencies create Facebook pages for Deepwater and floods

FEMA and other federal agencies are establishing Facebook pages to help with disaster responses.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

FEMA seeks social media contractor

Federal Emergency Management Agency issues a contract request for a media services company that can deliver information from disaster areas via social media and local media news outlets.

  • By Doug Beizer

5 companies named to FEMA support contract

Unisys Corp. is one of five companies chosen to compete for task orders under FEMA’s $500 million Centralized Operations, Maintenance and Management Information Technology contract.

  • By David Hubler

European communications companies make bid for U.S. sales

Two European communications companies are seeking to increase their share of the U.S. government market by touting the benefits of their videoconferencing and mobile satellite offerings.

  • By David Hubler

Auditors: FEMA's contract files a mess

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is not following standard procedures for managing its contracting files, according to an audit released by DHS' inspector general.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

SAIC to train FEMA emergency responders

SAIC has won a five-year Homeland Security Department training contract for FEMA that could be worth as much as $104 million.

  • By David Hubler

Watchdog group questions FEMA appointment of contractor

Group alleges potential conflict of interest for former contractor who is now FEMA chief of staff.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

CSC wins DHS contract for emergency communications

Computer Sciences Corp. will support the DHS program that gives priority to authorized users on emergency networks.

  • By Alice Lipowicz