Who won April's biggest contracts?

Looking at April’s contract round up, you’d hardly believe that contractors are beginning to be impacted by sequestration.

Just as with March, to make April’s list, you had to have a contract in the $150 million and above range.

Washington Technology covered 45 contract awards in April, a hefty increase over the 30 in March, and a significant increase over the 13 in February.

CGI wins $38.8M California contract for a voter database system

CGI Group has won a four-year, $38.8 million contract with California to implement a centralized, statewide voter registration database system.

The system, known as VoteCal, will provide a single, official source of voter registration information, and will connect to multiple state agencies as well as all 58 county election official offices to improve registration efficiency, CGI said in a release.

Joe Theismann's 5 lessons for life and business

Next week, former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann will be a keynote speaker at FOSE, the massive government technology trade show that my company produces each year.

It begs the question, what can a former professional football player, known during his playing days for being brash and cocky, teach government executives and federal contractors?

Lockheed nabs support contract for Navy combat center

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training has won a $17.7 million services contract with the U.S. Navy to support the Center for Surface Combat Systems.

The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract involves Foreign Military Sales to Norway and South Korea.

Lockheed Martin will provide training material, development and maintenance, instructor services, program management, administration and training systems services, the Defense Department said in a release.

Work will be performed in Dahlgren, Va., and in Moorestown, N.J., and is expected to be completed by December 2015.

Funds in the amount of $2 million will be obligated at the time of the award, and will not expire at the end of fiscal 2013.

DIA hunts for innovation at industry day

The Defense Intelligence Agency wants your help with innovation and is inviting industry participation at its Innovation Day 2013, which will be held at its headquarters on June 27.

The event will be unclassified, and is an opportunity for industry to hear presentations from agency senior leadership on the agency’s current and emerging challenges in a tight fiscal environment that getting even tighter.

Contractor convicted of spying on former company

A business development executive at a government contracting firm has been found guilty of spying on his former employer.

Robert Edwin Steele, 38, of Alexandria, Va., was convicted of 14 counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer.

According to a statement by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Steele left one company in December 2010, but kept a secret administrative account, and used that to download hundreds of proprietary documents from his former company.

NASA develops next simulation, training contract

NASA has kicked off development of the follow-on contract for a $132 million simulation and software pact now held by L-3 Communications.

The agency is looking at procurement approaches, small business requirements and organizational conflicts of interest as it developments the next iteration of its Simulation and Software Technology Contract.

3 Phoenix scores $75M contract to support sub systems

3 Phoenix has won a $75 million contract to provide engineering services for Navy open architecture and network-centric operations and warfare systems in support of submarines.

Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, 3 Phoenix will provide engineering services to support software development, procurement of commercial off-the-shelf products and hardware and software integration required to improve technology on the subs, the Defense Department said in a release.

Soul searching for success

In this difficult fiscal climate, it’s more important than ever to be dedicated to your client.

Indigo IT, a women-owned, small disadvantaged business that provides IT services to the federal government, learned this lesson firsthand.

The company was founded in 2001 by Rob Craig and Shane Van Wyngaardt, and began focusing solely on the federal sector when Denise Van Wyngaardt joined the company as managing member.

Northrop names new CEO for U.K., Europe

Northrop Grumman has named Andrew Tyler CEO of its business in the United Kingdom and Europe, effective July 1.

As CEO, Tyler will play a leading role in supporting the company’s current programs, develop strategies for growth and will identify new business opportunities for Northrop Grumman’s activities in the United Kingdom and in Europe, including NATO countries, the company said in a release.