General Dynamics lands Air Force radio order

General Dynamics Corp. won a contract from the Air Force Special Operations Command to deliver 1,402 combat search and rescue radios.

SRC wins naval warfare systems engineering work

Scientific Research Corp. has won a contract with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center to provide systems engineering and other services.

SAIC nabs highway toll system deal

Science Applications International Corp won a contract from the Illinois Tollway to assist in a systemwide conversion to a barrier-free electronic toll collection system.

Tech Success: What's the password?

With about 125 of its 600 employees deployed across the United States, computer password problems and lockouts were a major issue for the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.

CSC wins Air Force base operations work

Computer Sciences Corp. has won a contract from the Air Force Air Education Training Command to provide base maintenance and operations support services.

Northrop Grumman team chases Army mega deal

Northrop Grumman Corp. has assembled a team of companies to compete for the Army's Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services program.

BEA to acquire portal solutions company

BEA Systems Inc. will acquire enterprise portal solution provider Plumtree Software Inc. for about $200 million in cash.

Radiance acquires open source intelligence provider

Defense contractor Radiance Technologies Inc. has acquired Open Source Publishing Inc., a provider of open source intelligence support services, said Radiance officials.

VBrick Systems wins digital video R&D grant

VBrick Systems Inc. won a National Science Foundation grant to develop new technology for digital video applications.

DRC wins $97m training services contract

Dynamics Research Corp. won a $97 million task order contract with the Army Training, Doctrine and Combat Development Directorate to for training services.

Contract modification brings BAE more robotic work

BAE Systems North America Inc. won a contract modification for an Army armed robotic vehicle program that is worth at least $122.3 million.

Big weather needs big computers

Using wind tunnels to test airframe designs was a pivotal scientific breakthrough. Moving from wind tunnels to computer modeling was another leap.

'A new foundation'

How does a company with revenue of less than $1 million per year acquire a company with revenue reaching nearly $430 million a year? The small company has something the big company wants.

Report: Open source makes strides in federal arena

A growing number of federal IT managers at U.S. civilian and defense agencies are choosing open-source Linux over proprietary Unix operating systems, according to a new survey.

BearingPoint wins FDIC security contract

BearingPoint Inc. has won a contract to help the FDIC consolidate technology security self-assessment and monitoring activities.

EDS nabs U.K. criminal justice system support deal

EDS Corp. won a contract to provide service to the United Kingdom's justice system, said officials from the Plano, Texas-based company.

MPC wins state supply contract

MPC Computers has become a certified supplier of Sun Microsystems products for an association of states to supply local governments with computer systems.

BearingPoint wins CDC support contract

BearingPoint Inc. won a contract with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that potentially could be worth $15 million over five years.

HUD picks McDonald Bradley for Web support

McDonald Bradley Inc. won a contract from the Housing and Urban Development Department's Office of Community Planning (OCP) for its Internet/intranet maintenance and support project.

Tech success: Lights, camera, NASA

No sooner had NASA officials begun in-vestigating the space shuttle Columbia accident in 2003 when they met an obstacle: problems with the film and video that recorded foam insulation breaking off the fuel tank and smashing into the craft.