CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, in June announced it received a 20-month, $550,000 grant from the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration to develop an information technology technical support specialist apprenticeship.
Zip Brown, vice president of the eGovernment Solutions Group at American Management Systems Inc. in Fairfax, Va., used to say that several of her company's products were compliant with Section 508, a new federal regulation that goes into effect June 25.
Like it or not, meetings are a fact of life. In government as elsewhere, there's not enough time or money to travel everywhere. So people meet in other ways.
AFCEA's 55th annual conference and exposition, TechNet International, has everything for the communications, electronics, intelligence and information systems professional.
Innovative Technology Application Inc., a Springfield, Va., custom multimedia software developer and federal contractor, appointed Bert K. Mizusawa as its new president.
Before Ray Lopez teamed up with Anteon Corp. through the Defense Department's Mentor-Protégé Program, the 35 employees of Engineering Services Network Inc. in Arlington, Va., were a "rag-tag group of technocrats," Lopez said.
A panel of key players in the digital copyright debate will discuss the issues shaping the future distribution of media worldwide from 8 - 11 a.m. at The University Club in Washington, D.C.
New York state will provide $15 million in high-tech training grants to 28 organizations, benefiting 4,000 workers, Gov. George Pataki announced last month.
Ted Koska noticed in 1993 that the pool of candidates for Washington state government jobs was shrinking, especially at the executive level. By 1995, he realized there would be a definite shortage.
F. Whitten Peters, who served as secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C., from 1999 until his resignation in January, has joined DynCorp in a consulting capacity as special assistant to the president and CEO.
The average company trains 78.6 percent of its workers and spends an average $677 per employee annually, according to the 2001 State of the Industry Report, issued last month by the American Society for Training & Development in Alexandria, Va.
Twelve years ago, one Microsoft Corp. employee expressed interest in making the software giant's products more accessible to people with disabilities, spawning an initiative that has grown into a company unit of 40 full-time workers.
