McDonald Bradley to deliver bomb defusing data

McDonald Bradley Inc. won an $11.1 million contract with the Defense Department to build a network to provide information to troops defusing roadside bombs in Iraq.

Anteon wins contract with potential $75M value

Anteon International has won a subcontract from Portage Environmental to support the Air Force's Center for Environmental Excellence, Global Engineering, Integration and Technical Assistance 2005 program.

Tech success: Rapid recovery

Every day, medical staffs worldwide look to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology for help in making diagnoses based on samples of materials such as tumors and tissue.

InterSense gets follow-on deal for helmet technology

InterSense Inc. will continue work on a cockpit-helmet tracking system for the U.S. Army, officials from the Bedford, Mass., company said.

Smart-card group forms Physical Access Council

An alliance of government and industry leaders is forming an organization focused on physical access control and smart-card adoption.

Titan wins Navy contract

Titan Corp was awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Center that could be worth up as much as $125 million over five years.

Tachyon extends service delivery area

Growing demand from defense customers leads Tachyon Networks Inc. to expand the delivery of its satellite broadband solutions to Asia, the Pacific Rim, Latin America and Africa.

Science Dynamics buys Systems Management Engineering

Science Dynamics Corp., a developer of Internet protocol technology, has acquired an 82 percent equity interest in Systems Management Engineering Inc.

Army to get rugged computers from DRS

DRS Technologies Inc. received a $21.3 million order to provide rugged computer systems for the Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program.

Alion picks up Carmel Applied Technologies

Alion Science and Technology Corp. has acquired Carmel Applied Technologies Inc., a developer and integrator of systems to produce 3-D visuals for flight simulators.

CSC, Symantec offer managed security services

Computer Sciences Corp. and Symantec have entered into an alliance to offer managed security services worldwide.

Bioscrypt wins Belize passport work

Bioscrypt Inc., a provider of identity verification technology, announced that its Bioscrypt Core algorithm has been licensed by 3M-AiT for use in the Belizean Machine-Readable Passport System.

Alion acquires ManTech division

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New tools spur collaboration

When U.S. tanks rolled into Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq, one of the command vehicles was outfitted with cyclone antennas to establish a link with orbiting satellites. The satellite connection gave life to an onboard collaboration system that let commanders in the tank share audio, video, data and applications with command centers just about anywhere.

Megadata to help airport decision makers

Megadata Corp. won a contract to supply a suite of collaborative decision-making software to Washington Dulles International Airport. The airport, airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration will use the Passur software.

Raytheon wins missile defense work

Raytheon Co. won a $151.3 million Army contract extension to support engineering services for the Patriot air and missile defense program.

Analyst: HP head's departure could be marketing coup for competitors

The departure of Carly Fiorina as Hewlett-Packard Co.'s chairman and chief executive ? and no permanent replacement lined up ? could be a marketing boon for HP competitors in the government market, one analyst said.

CSC wins next phase of CADE work

Computer Sciences Corp. received a $34 million task order from the Internal Revenue Service to perform work on the Customer Account Data Engine project.

PKI providers picked by DOD

Two companies have been tapped by the Defense Department Public Key Infrastructure Program Management Office to provide digital certificate validation products to users worldwide.

RFID embedded in supply chain

In its simplest form, radio frequency identification is a method to track what is inside a case, pallet or shipping container full of goods. But the evolving technology is more than a replacement for bar codes.