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The U.S. government is moving at a brisk pace to launch information technology projects authorized by the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. Federal information technology providers are looking for the chance to participate in contracts flowing from the $1 billion allocated by the plan to the government s Technology Modernization Fund.
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President Joe Biden proposed a $6 trillion budget on Friday, aimed at expanding economic opportunity, improving education and creating a DARPA-like agency tasked with healthcare innovation, among other investments.
The budget, which expands on congressional allocations authorized under COVID-19 relief bills, focuses on what Biden s administration calls building back better, a slow pivot from the devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.
The budget s health IT initiatives include broadband expansion, strengthening public health infrastructure and bolstering cybersecurity. For all of the hard-won progress our Nation has made in recent months, we cannot afford to simply return to the way things were before the pandemic and economic downturn, with the old economy’s structural weaknesses and inequities still in place, the budget reads.