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Government IT Review - Cynthia L. Webb
About This Feature
The weekly Government IT Review surveys technology news involving all levels of government, from the federal to state, local and international. It is designed to give readers a primer on current trends and developments affecting the industry's major and interesting players, surveying news headlines from around the world. Washingtonpost.com's Cynthia L. Webb pens the feature.
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Contracting Riches for Nation's Capital
The metropolitan Washington region is reaping the rewards of Uncle Sam's procurement spending, with last year marking the highest growth rate of federal contract dollars in the area since the Beltway Bandit days of the 1980s.-washingtonpost.com

Past Columns
Wheels of Fortune (TechNews.com, Aug. 5, 2004; 11:37 AM)

IT Clouds Over the Sunshine State (TechNews.com, July 30, 2004; 10:18 AM)

States Prepare E-Gov Push (TechNews.com, July 22, 2004; 2:53 PM)

Cloudy IT Spending Forecasts (TechNews.com, July 15, 2004; 2:37 PM)

DHS Goes Back to School (TechNews.com, July 8, 2004; 2:01 PM)

Fall of the Titans? (TechNews.com, July 1, 2004; 11:39 AM)

Navy-Marine Corps Intranet Project Takes Fresh Flak (TechNews.com, June 24, 2004; 4:23 PM)

The Man From Sacramento (TechNews.com, June 17, 2004; 2:33 PM)

Seeding Security in the Heartland (TechNews.com, June 10, 2004; 2:16 PM)

America's Digital Welcome Mat (TechNews.com, June 3, 2004; 2:39 PM)

Total Information Dilemma (TechNews.com, May 27, 2004; 4:05 PM)

Grading E-Government (TechNews.com, May 20, 2004; 12:19 PM)

Lockheed Is King of the Contractors -- Again (TechNews.com, May 13, 2004; 5:22 PM)

Electronic Hanging Chads? (TechNews.com, May 7, 2004; 11:11 AM)

Defense Sector Riding High (TechNews.com, April 29, 2004; 12:11 PM)

E-Vote Rocked in California (TechNews.com, April 23, 2004; 12:09 PM)

Laissez-Faire on IT Security (TechNews.com, April 16, 2004; 12:34 PM)

E-Voting Revealed (TechNews.com, April 8, 2004; 11:26 AM)

Homeland Security Growing Pains (TechNews.com, April 1, 2004; 1:17 PM)

Uncle Sam: High-Tech Sugar Daddy (TechNews.com, March 29, 2004; 11:54 AM)

Security Sector Still Hot (TechNews.com, March 18, 2004; 11:07 AM)

Robot Builders Have Eyes on the Prize (TechNews.com, March 11, 2004; 2:09 PM)

E-Voting Field Test (TechNews.com, March 4, 2004; 11:41 AM)

Casualty of Defense Transformation (TechNews.com, Feb. 26, 2004; 11:44 AM)

GAO Scorches Air Security Program (TechNews.com, Feb. 20, 2004; 10:30 AM)

The Privacy Conundrum (TechNews.com, Feb. 12, 2004; 12:59 PM)

Tech Winners and Losers in the President's Budget (TechNews.com, Feb. 5, 2004; 12:24 PM)

Pentagon Stands by Internet Voting Experiment (TechNews.com, Jan. 30, 2004; 3:26 PM)

FTS Under Fire: More Headlines: Air Security Project Moving Forward; E-voting Update; Boston-area Firms Reap Pentagon Windfall; 2004 Predictions (TechNews.com, Jan. 15, 2004; 11:43 AM)

U.S. Visit Launch Met With Criticism: More Headlines: E-Filing Success Prompts IRS Changes; MCI Gets a Reprieve From Uncle Sam; New Headache for EDS (TechNews.com, Jan. 8, 2004; 1:39 PM)

Happy Anniversary, E-Government (TechNews.com, Dec. 18, 2003; 2:37 PM)

French, Germans, Russians Need Not Apply: More Headlines: Uncle Sam Gets a Bad Report Card; CSC Feels the Heat; E-Voting Firms Fight Back... (TechNews.com, Dec. 11, 2003; 5:45 PM)

After Shakeup, Can Boeing Soar Again?: More Headlines: Data-Sharing Hiccups in the War on Terrorism; Diebold Backs Down on Lawsuits; Bush Signs Nanotech Bill... (TechNews.com, Dec. 4, 2003; 1:15 PM)

Pentagon's IT Overhaul Gets Boost (TechNews.com, Nov. 27, 2003; 9:28 AM)

'Real Opportunities' at DHS: The DHS Money Question; Tight Times for E-Gov; Sun Shines in China; and more gov't IT headlines (TechNews.com, Nov. 20, 2003; 6:09 PM)

Cashing In on E-Voting?: More Headlines: Diebold Continues 'Net Sweep; Penny Pinching at Homeland Security; Good and Bad News for CSC; Ag's Hot Site (TechNews.com, Nov. 13, 2003; 1:42 PM)

FBI Gets a Case of CSC: More Headlines: Exodus, OMB-Style, Crock the Vote, The Sexy Side of E-Government (TechNews.com, Nov. 6, 2003; 3:06 PM)

Earnings Season Highs and Lows: More Headlines: Lockheed Soars ... While EDS Struggles; White House Web-Gate?; How Small Is Small?; Vietnam Goes Open Source (TechNews.com, Oct. 30, 2003; 1:50 PM)

Iraq Contracts Under Microscope: More Headlines: Small Contractors Getting Squeezed Out?, E-Voting-Gate, E-Gov Funding Shortfall, Don't Bet on GD-BAE Deal (TechNews.com, Oct. 23, 2003; 5:22 PM)




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