SAIC wins $56M NASA service contract for compliance services

Science Applications International Corp. has won a $56 million contract with NASA to provide safety, health, environmental and mission assurance services at two of NASA’s Ohio stations.

Under the contract, which has a 19-month base, three options years, and one five-month option, SAIC will provide services to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and to the Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio.

Northrop Grumman wins $14M option to finalize IED protection system

Northrop Grumman has won a $14.1 million option with the Navy to complete the development of the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Electronic Warfare system, or JCREW.

Specifically, the company will develop the system’s Increment 1, Block 1 system of systems.

JCREW is a next-generation system to protect warfighters, vehicles, watercraft and permanent structures from remote-controlled improvised explosive devices, the company said in a release.

2014 budget request points to new opportunities

More shared services, consolidation and cloud computing -- that’s where the Office of Management and Budget expects to find IT savings in 2014. More citizen-facing innovative applications, more mobility for the government, and more cybersecurity -- that’s where the White House will support higher spending.

IntelliDyne wins $21M IT support contract with Justice division

IntelliDyne has won a five-year $21 million information technology support contract with the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.

Under the contract, IntelliDyne will support the division through project management, administrative services, end-user support services, systems operations administration, systems engineering and development, security and remote trial support, the company said in a release.

Booz, InnovaSystems to compete for Navy readiness work

Booz Allen Hamilton and InnovaSystems International will square off over tens of millions in potential task orders under a pair of contracts they have won to support the Navy’s Defense Readiness Support System-Navy.

The two companies will compete for task orders under the contract. The contract ceiling for Booz Allen Hamilton is $65.6 million, and InnovaSystems International has a ceiling of $58.7 million

Is HR your hidden strategic asset?

Is HR your untapped strategic strength?

Over the last couple years I’ve noticed a change in how senior executives talk about people. For years, I felt like a lot of lip service was paid to this topic but not much else.

But that might be changing. More executives are talking to me about people and culture as a business imperative because the market is so tight and competitive.

MorganFranklin taps new CEO

MorganFranklin has named C.E. Andrews chief executive officer, where he will lead the company’s operations and play a critical role in planning and executing its growth strategy and vision.

Andrews succeeds Robert Morgan, who has been CEO since the company was started in 1998.

Time to embrace Agile and beyond

Remember the good old days of IT contracting for the federal government? Billion dollar projects over multiple years. Huge cost overruns. Dissatisfied customers. Angry taxpayers. And when the project finally went live, it was already three years out of date.

Not so good old days after all, it seems.

The newest threat to the cloud

The newest threat to cloud computing isn’t security or privacy but customer fatigue, according to a Forbes column.

Bob Evans writes, “Businesses are tired of hearing the tech industry squawk about whether this or that is a managed service or a faux cloud or a virtualized cumulonimbus cluster or a passing shower or black cloud of doom.”

Critical furlough questions you have to ask your customers

A lot of the conversation in the government market has swirled around questions about sequestration and its impact on contractors. And that’s the problem; there are plenty of questions, but not a lot of real answers.

That’s because the bottom line is, “nobody knows,” said Julian Rosenberg, government contractor advisory practice leader at Grant Thornton. And because nobody knows, Rosenberg’s recommendation to all government contractors is, talk to your contracting officer.