“… Early spending focused on emergency response efforts -- purchasing ventilators, vaccine research, treatments and constructing emergency medical facilities. The Health and Human Services Department has been the major recipient with the Veterans Affairs Department and Federal Emergency Management Agency also seeing growth, Plexico said.” “For just IT spending, Plexico said there was an spike early on for equipment that government employees needed for the shift to remote work. There also has been an increase in spending on professional services to help agencies such as the Small Business Administration with rolling out the Paycheck Protection Program and other programs.” “The increase Plexico described was also reflected in the presentation by Joanne Woytek, program director for NASA's SEWP vehicle.” “Woytek reported that SEWP has seen these examples of companies vaulting into the contract's top 25 list of manufacturers -- IBM and its storage solutions, Motorola and it…” Read the full article here. Source: How COVID is shaking up federal spending – By Nick Wakeman, May 27, 2020. Washington Technology.