Senate approves Defense nominees

While the Senate still mulls over President Bush's selection for Defense Department CIO, legislators recently signed off on several Defense appointments before they took their August recess.

Protests put brakes on Lockheed work for Army AKO portal

The Army has announced that Lockheed Martin Corp. will not perform any work associated with the Army Knowledge Online portal until protests challenging the award of the contract are resolved.

Lockheed shoots for 99 percent satisfaction with AKO portal

Higher performance, easier use and access, and increased cost benefits are among the advantages the Army expects to gain with Lockheed Martin Corp. as managing the Army Knowledge Online portal.

Lockheed team wins AKO award

Lockheed Martin to lead effort to integrate the Army Knowledge Online enterprise Web portal.

Accenture to overhaul Army's financial-management system

Accenture has won a $537 million contract from the Army to develop a consolidated financial-management system for active, Reserve and National Guard units.

J-UCAS receives first release of common operating software

The COS is being co-developed by Boeing Co., Northrop Grumman Corp. and John Hopkins University's Applied Research Laboratory.

Raytheon VP Grimes on deck for Defense CIO post

If confirmed, John G. Grimes, vice president of Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, will replace Linton Wells.

DISA seeking vendor for transaction monitoring system

In a request for proposals issued June 6, DISA's Computing Services is searching for an automated tool to monitor and troubleshoot transaction performance from end-user locations.

Army to issue contract for AKO portal, RFPs for GFEBS, ITES-2

The contracts represent roughly $1.4 billion in combined procurements and include the Army Knowledge Online enterprise portal and a consolidated approach for the service's financial-management systems.

Army to cast more critical eye on enterprise networking programs

Maj. Gen. Dennis Moran said Army IT budgetary dollars in 2006 would be closely linked to how well a program's requirements are defined and whether the program is being built to service the whole enterprise.

Northrop Grumman unit wins Navy CLIP contract

Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems was awarded the Common Link Integration Processing contract to develop common software and common-link processing for a joint Navy-Air Force program.

Navy awards hundreds of contracts for SeaPort-e initiative

The Navy has awarded more than 500 contracts under the SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) contract vehicle for a hodgepodge of support services for weapons systems acquisition.

DISA seeks stronger software for Defense systems

The Defense Information Systems Agency has released an RFI for programs to combat internal threats to their networks and systems.

Horizon wins DLA food-service management contract

Horizon Software has been awarded a $48 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide food-service management software to the dining facilities of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

General Dynamics gets $50 million more for battlefield robotics

General Dynamics Robotics Systems of Westminster, Md., received $50.7 million in additional funding for its Army Future Combat Systems Autonomous Navigation System, designed to bring next-generation robotic ground vehicles to the battlefield to aid warfighters.

DISA unit seeks database monitoring software, issues RFI

DISA's Computing Services division seeks industry feedback on enterprise database monitoring software for both mainframe and distributed environments.

DOD seeks bandwidth for information systems network

The Defense Department will release a request for proposals to obtain technologies that would add bandwidth to the Defense Information Systems Network.

Acrobat user gaffe exposes classified info

A public military report on an investigation into the shooting death of an Italian security agent includes blocks of classified data that can be deciphered as easily as copying and pasting text.

Suppliers must put RFID tags on DoD products

Defense contractors now must mark items delivered under defense contracts with unique identification tags.

Army delays RFP for $20B enterprise contracts

The Army announced a delay in the request for proposals and award of its $20 billion enterprise IT buy, saying it needs more time for evaluation.