TASC tasks ex-CIA official with advancing technology business

TASC has named former senior CIA official Bob Silsby vice president of its Business and Technology Office.

CGI upgrades IT systems at Canadian justice ministry

CGI Group Inc. will overhaul Quebec's Department of Justice IT systems under a five-year contract valued at $24.5 million.

Unisys updates Michigan's child welfare IT system

Unisys will provide Michigan with a new child welfare information system under a 5-year contract that could be worth as much as $47 million.

CGI takes North Carolina county into the cloud

CGI Group Inc. has won a 12-year contract worth $30.5 million to replace a North Carolina county's enterprise resource planning system with a cloud-based system.

URS unveils cloud portal for GSA schedule purchasing

URS-Apptis, the IT business arm of URS Corp., has received federal approval to operate its FedCloud.com as an infrastructure-as-a-service portal so government agencies can use it to make purchases on the GSA Schedules.

SAIC continues systems support for Navy warfare center

Science Applications International Corp. has been tasked by the Navy with providing systems engineering and life cycle integration services to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division under a five-year award that could be worth more than $38 million.

Agencies don't account for all program costs, experts say

Auditors at GAO found that several agencies with interagency contracts and those that help with acquisitions don’t carefully account for all the costs of their programs.

CGI wins $207M EPA award to upgrade central data exchange

CGI Federal will support EPA's effort to improve a critical database used to report environmental data.

6 contractors share $210M DOD information assurance awards

Six government contractors have each won a Defense Department contract worth more than $40 million to provide a range of support services to the Navy and other DOD and federal agencies, according to a September 8 DOD announcement.

OFPP keeps classic defintion of fed-only work

OFPP keeps the inherently governmental function definition 'intimate,' but leaves much discretion about jobs closely associated.

Dovèl hires health care IT pro to boost sector sales

Dovèl Technologies has hired Adam Welsh as senior vice president and general manager for health IT to grow the company’s presence and gain new customers.

Macfadden to shore up Coast Guard financial system

Macfadden & Associates Inc. has won a five-year, $9.9 million contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to provide financial management support.

Lockheed to cut 340 employees, 190 voluntarily

Lockheed Martin Corp. will reduce its human resources roles by some 340 employees, more than half of whom accepted a corporate buyout, the company announced Sept. 8.

SAIC provides mission-critical IT to Special Ops Command

Science Applications International Corp. will provide mission-critical IT to the Defense Department under a five-year contract that has a ceiling value of more than $35 million if all options are exercised.

ManTech names ex-NRO officer senior VP of advanced tech unit

ManTech International Corp. has appointed Deborah Thurman senior vice president and group deputy in the Systems Engineering and Advanced Technology group. She formerly served as senior vice president of contracts responsible for all contract-related functional areas within the company.

DRC unit provides specialty engineering support to DOD

High Performance Technologies Inc., the operating unit of Dynamics Research Corp., has won a $39 million Defense Department contract to provide policy, guidance and human capital support.

ICF award helps FEMA prepare for radiological emergencies

ICF International Inc. has won a five-year recompete contract worth more than $15 million to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency implement its Radiological Emergency Preparedness program.

Committee finds manual processes in automated systems

“Agencies employ a tangled web of disparate manual processes to generate the data,” according to the House committee.

Iron Bow hits mark with management buyout

Iron Bow Technologies LLC has become a privately owned entity now that President and CEO Rene LaVigne and other senior executives have acquired a controlling interest in the company through a management buyout, according to an announcement released Sept. 6.

CSC's new health care VP to lead federal business push

David Levitt has been named vice president of health IT solutions at Computer Sciences Corp.'s North American Public Sector Health Services Division, responsible for developing new business with key federal health agencies.