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As reported in the Washington Post ... While the nation waits for help from the $787 billion federal stimulus package, Washington-area contractors are already cashing in ... reports show that a sizable sum has gone to federal contractors in the Washington area...

... The Energy Department is paying Technology & Management Services, a Gaithersburg firm, $6.9 million to review applications for renewable energy loan guarantees. The Department of Homeland Security awarded Deloitte Consulting's Arlington branch $8.6 million to provide "program management and support" for the stimulus plan's $1 billion airport security initiative, and gave McKing Consulting, a Fairfax firm, a $1.5 million contract to review applications for fire department construction funding...

... the contracts represent a relatively small portion of spending. But they help explain why the Washington area is weathering the recession so well....

... Of the stimulus grants and contracts awarded so far, the District of Columbia (D.C.) has received nearly 10 times as much per capita as the national average, and Maryland has received more per capita than much harder-hit states, among them Florida, Michigan, Nevada and Ohio. Virginia's statewide average is relatively low, but of the 496 stimulus contracts the state has received, two-thirds of them, with a total value of $562 million, have gone to Northern Virginia, home to hundreds of contractors...

.. CGI Federal, a Fairfax firm, won a $4 million contract from the Environmental Protection Agency to set up a reporting system for stimulus spending. And the National Institute of Standards and Technology hired MacArthur & Baker International, of Bethesda, for $1.6 million to develop a "framework that . . . minimizes the risk of fraud, waste and abuse" in the agency's $610 million stimulus spending ... Contracting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, headquartered at Tysons Corner, won contracts worth more than $30 million to oversee two big new projects that government officials say they cannot handle alone: the expansion of broadband access and construction of high-speed rail...

Read on at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/02/AR2...

ENJOY!

CC

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Interesting, but any specific healthcare IT examples?

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