Software vendor Accela Inc. has won a $4 million contract from Dade County, Fla., for software and support to the Department of Environmental Resources Management.
	Preparing for the fiscal 2005 budget, the White House is stressing that agencies must tie research and development to their missions, according to a June 5 guidance signed by White House science adviser John Marburger and Mitchell Daniels, then director of the Office of Management and Budget.
A new e-government tax program helped 50,000 Californians last year, though they'll never know it. That's because the program prevented the state from mistakenly sending them stern reminders to pay their taxes.
Often, Justice Department analysts and law enforcement officials share what they know about narcotics dealers and terrorists by trading e-mails. But this informal information exchange can be messy: E-mail servers quickly fill up with duplicate copies sent to multiple recipients. No one is usually tasked with keeping a central repository of all the documents and the comments they generate.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED)</font color> Government information technology reseller Micro Warehouse Gov/Ed Inc. will be affected minimally by layoffs at its parent company, an executive says.
Autonomy Corporation plc, Cambridge, U.K., is planning to buy Virage Inc., San Mateo, Calif., in a $24.8 million cash deal, Autonomy announced Thursday.
ManTech International Corp., Fairfax, Va., won a $6.8 million contract from the Air Force to support space control operations, the company announced this week.
MicroStrategy Inc.'s $5 million contract to provide business intelligence software and support to the Postal Service marks the company's increased emphasis on the government sector, a top executive says.
Few government employees spend more time away from their desks than members of Congress. They're always on the move, often racing between meetings with committees, constituents and colleagues. Keeping them abreast of the latest schedule changes, memos, press meetings and volumes upon volumes of policy updates is a challenge for their staffs.
In June, the Defense Department awarded TranTech Inc., Alexandra, Va., a $9 million contract to build an asset management system to hold digital images, audio, video and other documents.
