The FCC yesterday adopted an order allowing transmission of emergency alerts via text message to cell phone users nationwide, but the plan could falter without an agency to head it.
Hughes Network Systems will provide DISA and other agencies participating in the Government Education and Training Network with a distance-learning system for students at locations nationwide.
Ciracom Inc. and USA.net announced at the FOSE trade show in Washington that they have won a spot on the GSA schedule to sell Microsoft Exchange hosting services.
AT&T Inc. has finished installing a statewide network that will bring high-bandwidth broadband services and Internet access to school districts throughout Kentucky.
Fewer than a third of the $11.5 billion in contracts awarded by DHS in fiscal 2007 were approved after full and open competitions, according to USAspending.gov.