Analysis: Stimulus package ripe with IT opportunities
Stimulus package favors IT opportunities in health care, energy, broadband and cybersecurity.
Grassley submits H-1B amendment
The legislation would ban TARP funds from going to companies that employ H-1B visa holders.
Grassley hits Microsoft on layoffs
Microsoft should lay off its foreign workers on H-1B visas before it lays off American workers, Sen. Charles Grassley.
Tech CEOs offer Obama views on stimulus
President Barack Obama holds a meeting with high-level technology executives to discus the economic stimulus package.
Group calls for digital infrastructure stimulus
A $30 billion investment in information technology in a government-led economic stimulus package would create about 949,000 U.S. jobs, according to a new study.
Stan Soloway | Forging progress on key initiatives
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction issued a massive report in December, which concluded that the U.S. engagement in Iraq was marked, and to an extent doomed, from the beginning by an under-resourced and undermanned infrastructure.
Divide and conquer
A collection of new software tools can beat configuration management problems.
10 stories you've been following
Check out the top stories that Washington Technology readers are following.
Issa: Contractor oversight might require more resources
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the new ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, expects the committee will focus on a range of topics, including procurement and contracting issues.
A firm voice on the Hill
Low-key Ed Towns takes charge of Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
New Oversight and Government Reform Committee chair named
Rep. Edolphus Towns said he intends to focus on contracting reform, oversight of departments, agencies and the private sector, and the rights and duties of federal employees.
New form helps contractors report crimes
A new online form will help contractors comply with the FAR rule that requires them to tell the government about criminal activities.
Report calls for increased contractor scrutiny
Congress has moved in the right direction in contractor oversight, but the Obama administration and incoming Congress need to do more, the new report said.
GSA to share costs with Treasury from dropped TCE contract
The day before the Treasury Department dropped its Treasury Communications Enterprise contract, the GSA and Treasury signed an agreement under which GSA would defend the cancellation of the controversial deal.
Contracting skirmishes foreshadow broader policy battle
GSA Administrator Lurita Doan expects heated debate to occur in Congress over the next few months about federal government contracting.
Davis: A-76 sparks partisan discord
One of the first casualties of the new Congress could be a program designed to create competition around functions performed by the federal government, said Rep. Tom Davis.
$1B TCE contract has plug pulled by Treasury
After years of contention with the Bush administration and Congress, the plug has been pulled by the Treasury Department on its controversial $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract.
Sen. Clinton calls for full review of passport card
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for a "rigorous and comprehensive" review of the proposed border-crossing identification card that is an integral part of the Bush Administration's Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.
Jerry Grossman | New SBA size further stratifies small business
Arguably, the Small Business Administration's final rule, announced Nov. 15, regarding small-business size recertification under long-term federal contracts has few beneficiaries in the long term, except, perhaps, unsuccessful small businesses.
Jonathan Cain | Oral commitment leaves company in the lurch
Several useful lessons were highlighted last month when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided a case that brought to a close a long-running dispute between an SBIR grantee and the government.
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