Lockheed continues diversification push

Lockheed Martin Corp. apparently is in the hunt to buy another Australian IT company.

A Lockheed spokeswoman declined to comment on reports from Australia that the company was attempting to buy a company called ASG; however, ASG filed with the Australian Securities Exchange that Lockheed had made two offers to acquire them.

5 win options for port security contract

Five small businesses have won the fourth option year under a $80 million port security contract with the U.S. Navy.

The winners are:

• Truston Technologies
• GPA Technologies
• Harbor Offshore Inc.
• Great Eastern Group Inc.
• Hardline-Resolute CM JV

Booz Allen wins $315M geospatial intell contract

Booz Allen Hamilton has won a $315 million single-award contract to provide technical research and development subject matter expertise to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Under the contract, Booz Allen will apply this expertise to all facets of the InnoVision Future Solutions Program through November 2017, the company said in a release.

Is your next BD exec a former journalist?

Rarely has the business development function been so difficult—or its skills so valued.

Tight budgets are shrinking the pool of new government opportunities, while continuing resolutions, sequestration, and battles over the debt ceiling have dramatically increased the uncertainty surrounding agency plans and programs. Companies cannot afford to overlook emerging opportunities, but neither can they afford to chase projects that may never get off the ground.

General Dynamics opens space innovation center

The EDGE Innovation Network’s 13th EDGE Innovation Center, that General Dynamics C4 Systems sponsors and houses in the company’s Seabrook, Md., facility is now open.

This space innovation center will connect NASA and other government agency professionals with more than 350 EDGE Innovation Network members from both industry and academia, General Dynamics said in a release.

Amazon-CIA deal triggers plenty of questions

When it comes to traffic on our website, few stories are as hot as the CIA-Amazon $600 million cloud deal .

For our sister publication, FCW, who broke the story, the traffic probably ranks the story as one of their biggest ever.

Big leadership changes mark first half of fiscal 2013

The first six month of fiscal 2013 are nearly at an end, and what a six months it has been.

Not only have we seen a presidential election and plenty of drama around the budget, but we’ve also seen more changes in the contractor ranks than is typical.

Let’s just take a look at the leadership changes we’ve seen since Oct. 1:

IBM wins $267M pact to take Ohio to the cloud

IBM has won a 10-year, $267 million contract with the state of Ohio to modernize its computer center through the development of a private cloud environment, as well as through the use of other hardware and IBM services.

The Ohio Computing Center houses infrastructure for a number of state agencies, IBM said.

CACI wins $140M contract with new civilian client

CACI International has won a five-year, $140 million contract with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. to modernize its IT infrastructure.

This contract is known as the Information Technology Infrastructure Operations Services and Support contract.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., or PBGC, is a federal agency that protects the retirement incomes of more than 44 million American workers in more than 27,500 private-sector defined benefit plans, CACI said in a release.

About PBGC, CACI president and CEO Kenneth Asbury said, “This is a new client for us with solid future business potential, and we welcome the opportunity to expand our support in the federal civilian space while strategically advancing our presence in the enterprise IT market.”

Can you help customers see the cloud more clearly?

As the U.S. government moves to the cloud, unlocking the cloud’s true potential requires a more comprehensive analysis of the potential benefits – maximizing benefits for the organization beyond cost savings – and how those benefits can be achieved.

The cloud’s appeal to both the public and private sectors is strong – and growing. In particular, the impact of executive mandates (e.g., the “Cloud First” federal IT policy and the “Digital Government” strategy), the need to address increasing cyber threats, and pressure to cut costs are  driving government agencies to research, select and implement cloud solutions, quickly.