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.
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.
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.
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?
Lieberman tells FEMA to centralize IT
FEMA can't manage its IT systems with an uncoordinated approach to building systems, senator says.
Tweeting tornado warnings a good idea despite limitations, bloggers say
Using Twitter to spread a disaster warning message has advantages and disadvantages, bloggers write.
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.
Many federal blogs wither from neglect
Our Dying Blog List highlights those in critical condition. Help us add to it.
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.
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.
Agencies create Facebook pages for Deepwater and floods
FEMA and other federal agencies are establishing Facebook pages to help with disaster responses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Watchdog group questions FEMA appointment of contractor
Group alleges potential conflict of interest for former contractor who is now FEMA chief of staff.
CSC wins DHS contract for emergency communications
Computer Sciences Corp. will support the DHS program that gives priority to authorized users on emergency networks.
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