General Dynamics, HP win $151M in Special Ops Command contracts

General Dynamics Corp. and Hewlett Packard Co. will provide network and data center services to the U.S. Special Operations Command under a pair of contracts that have a combined value of more than $151 million.

Four contractors vie for $1.4B in Navy awards

A quartet of contractors will provide IT systems for ships, submarines and land-based facilities for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and other prospective U.S. government and foreign military customers.

ManTech helps FBI again in battling cyber threats to bureau

ManTech International Corp. will help protect and secure the FBI’s classified communications infrastructure from domestic and foreign cyber threats by providing cybersecurity services under a five-year contract that could be worth as much as $10.5 million.

Harris tasked with modernizing Army medical centers’ IT networks

Harris Corp. will upgrade communications networks at 23 Army Medical Treatment facilities for the Army’s U.S. Information Systems Engineering Command under a one-year contract worth $10.6 million.

Alion puts Guard Dog through its paces for DARPA

Alion Science and Technology Corp. will conduct performance evaluations on the Graph Understanding and Analysis for Rapid Detection – Deployed On the Ground (Guard Dog) program, under a three-year, $4.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

NCI supports Air Force wireless network expansion

NCI will help the Air Force upgrade its wireless network program under a Netcents contract worth approximately $17.3 million.

TCS takes DOD personnel to school for cybersecurity training

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has won a five-year Defense Department contract worth approximately $49 million to provide the DOD’s military and civilian personnel with on-site computer network operations training in support of the government’s cybersecurity workforce development efforts.

GSA's Google Apps award raises Microsoft’s hackles

Microsoft Corp. complains that GSA amended a request for proposals that resulted in Unisys Corp. winning a $6.7 million contract to create a cloud-based e-mail system using Google Apps. What ticked off the software giant?

Army reveals $25 billion in contracts for Aberdeen post

With hundreds of contractors standing by in a filled Aberdeen Proving Ground auditorium, the Army unveiled the details of more than $25 billion in contracts that will come to the region.

Unisys brings Google Apps to GSA

Unisys Corp. has won a General Services Administration contract worth $6.7 million to create a secure, cloud-based e-mail and collaboration platform for the agency.

SAIC powers up radio communications for CBP

Science Applications International Corp. will upgrade communications systems for the Homeland Security Department's Customs and Border Protection unit under a two-year task order that could be worth as much as $45 million.

CACI upgrades data systems for Customs and Border Protection

CACI International Inc. has been awarded a five-year, $29 million task order from the Homeland Security Department to support the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. The work was awarded through the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) contract vehicle.

Unisys’ IT assistance to Minneapolis to run through 2015

Unisys Corp. has received a contract extension worth an estimated $33 million to provide further IT outsourcing services to the city government of Minneapolis through 2015.

AT&T to build $286M call center for Social Security Administration

AT&T Government Solutions will build a contact call center solution for the Social Security Administration as a result of a contract award through the General Services Administration's Networx Universal contract vehicle that could be worth as much as $286 million to the telecommunications company.

A-T Solutions continues evidence collection aid to FBI

A-T Solutions Inc. will continue to help the FBI with evidence collection software under a new five-year, $3 million contract to continue working with the FBI Evidence Response Team Unit as it modernizes its Evidence Collection and Management system.

TechAmerica urges action by lame-duck Congress on laundry list of IT wants

TechAmerica President and CEO Phil Bond today urged the upcoming lame duck session of the 111th Congress to take concerted action before adjournment on a range of unresolved IT issues.

NARA e-mail service on the fritz

Efforts to replace faulty network equipment have been complicated by problems with U.S. trade law.

Dell is aboard with IT support for Coast Guard

Dell Services will provide IT to the Coast Guard under a five-year, $92 million Standard Workstation and Communication Infrastructure Support Blanket Purchase Agreement.

TCS to upgrade Navy satellite system

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. will provide satellite communications assistance to the Military Sealift Command under a $315 million indefinite, delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a guaranteed first-year minimum of $5 million.

NCI unveils twin-win NetCents task orders

NCI Information Systems Inc. has gotten two task orders from the Defense Department’s Network Centric Solutions contract that have a cumulative value of about $18.5 million.