Sybase snaps up Mobile 365
Sybase Inc. has purchased Mobile 365, a mobile messaging and content-delivery company, for $425 million in an all-cash transaction.
NIST offers secure Web services tips
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released for comment a draft of Guide to Secure Web Services.
Pearson enrolls for VA eligibility work
Pearson Government Solutions Inc. won a $24.7 million task order from the General Services Administration to help veterans who are eligible for education benefits.
DOD re-ups CACI for acquisition management support
CACI International Inc. will continue its support of a Web-based suite of applications that replaces the Defense Department's legacy acquisition reporting system under a newly won prime contract.
Investment group lassoes Intergraph
Intergraph Corp. of Huntsville, Ala., has agreed to be acquired for $1.3 billion by an investor group led by Hellman & Friedman LLC and the Texas Pacific Group.
Viisage, Identix morph into L-1 Identity Solutions
The shareholders and boards of directors of Viisage Technology Inc. and Identix Inc. approved their merger this week, forming the new company L-1 Identity Solutions Inc.
BearingPoint wins Jordan fiscal systems work
The Jordanian government has tapped BearingPoint Inc. to help improve tax administration and budget management through a contract awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Lockheed Martin will proof ID system for HHS
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a proof-of-concept contract to implement biometric identification cards for Health and Human Services Department employees.
Calif. taps Netsmart for health software
Netsmart Technologies Inc. won a contract with a California regional mental health authority to deliver a system to manage processes such as scheduling and clinical assessments.
Postal branch seeks research on advanced search tools
The U.S. Postal Service is conducting market research for a commercially available advanced search and analysis tool for data and text material.
Systems Made Simple to encrypt VA computers
Systems Made Simple Inc. of Syracuse, N.Y., has been awarded a $3.7 million contract from the Veterans Affairs Department to assist the VA in upgrading all department computers with enhanced data security encryption systems to protect sensitive data on veterans.
Ga. county finds unity in Tyler software
Columbia County, Ga., hopes to unify information used by county employees in different agencies through an array of software tools from Tyler Technologies Inc.
TSA to wrap up Secure Flight reassessment
The Transportation Security Administration expects by next month to complete its reassessment of its controversial Secure Flight airline passenger-prescreening program, according to a GAO letter to Congress.
InterSystems to do DOD health care database
InterSystems Corp. was selected to deliver its Cache post-relational database software for the Defense Department's Composite HealthCare System.
IBM sweeps up MRO Software
With an eye toward building solutions based on service oriented architectures, IBM Corp. announced it plans to acquire MRO Software for about $740 million in an all-cash deal.
Ciber signs on for New Hampshire ERP work
Ciber won a $13 million contract from New Hampshire to install enterprise resource planning software to better coordinate state business and administrative functions.
Federal pension corporation embarks on SOA work
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has awarded a four-year, $6 million contract to Keane Inc. to aid in various projects related to service-oriented architecture.
Washington state re-ups Digimarc for driver's licensing
In a move to bolster security around its driver's licenses, Washington awarded Digimarc Corp. a $10 million, three-year contract extension to upgrade the state's licenses and the processes and equipment used to create them.
Deltek Systems buys C/S Solutions
Software maker Deltek Systems Inc. has picked up its third software company in the last nine months with the acquisition of C/S Solutions Inc.
Boom times ahead for ID solutions
U.S. government agencies likely will fuel $8 billion in indentity initiatives in the next five years..
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