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Ethan Butterfield
Roadblocks ahead for Real ID
Driver's licensing reform stalls without DHS guidance.
- By Ethan Butterfield
NCI wins Norad IT services deal
NCI Inc. won a contract potentially worth $31.3 million to supply IT services to the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the Northern Command.
- By Ethan Butterfield
Veterans Technology Services winners selected
GSA today announced that it has awarded its $5 billion, 10-year governmentwide acquisition contract to 44 service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses.
- By Ethan Butterfield
A better brand
The company once known as AMS has renewed itself as part of CGI Group and is hoping for a banner year in 2007.
- By Ethan Butterfield
SBA regs ruffle feathers
A fair shake in federal contracting is what small IT companies are after. But what constitutes "fair" is a matter for debate, one that is raging around new regulations released by the Small Business Administration in November.
- By Ethan Butterfield
E-voting requires long-term strategy: IDC
Though state and local governments have spent nearly $3.8 billion since 2002 on electronic voting systems, they still have a long way to go before e-voting generates an accurate, timely and secure voting process, according to a new study.
- By Ethan Butterfield
Gateway lands Illinois education work
Sixth-graders and teachers in several Illinois school districts will get Gateway notebook PC's as part of a pilot project using technology to improve education.
- By Ethan Butterfield
Unisys checks in for DOD health care work
Unisys Corp. has won a contract to configure commercial software solutions for billing and accounts receivable operations within the Defense Department.
- By Ethan Butterfield
Digimarc puts stamp on Idaho driver's license security
In a move to beef up the security of its driver's license system, the Idaho Transportation Department has awarded Digimarc Corp. a contract extension.
- By Ethan Butterfield
Alcatel closes Lucent buy
Alcatel-Lucent began operating today as a new company on the completion of Alcatel's purchase of Lucent Technologies Inc.
- By Ethan Butterfield
Lockheed Martin gains altitude with Army surveillance deal
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s tethered aerostat surveillance systems offer the Army and its soldiers a birds-eye view of warfighting action in real-time.
- By Ethan Butterfield
Amit Yoran | Survival Guide: Perspectives from the field
Amit Yoran, former cyberczar, takes the reins at NetWitness startup.
- By Ethan Butterfield
A giant leap for first response
Cities move beyond walky-talkies and toward interoperability.
- By Ethan Butterfield
State Dept. re-ups Harris for visa work
Harris Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., won a one-year, $42 million contract renewal from the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs to continue delivering technical support services to more than 230 embassies and consulates around the world.
- By Ethan Butterfield
Indiana names Weaver CIO
As of Dec.r 1, Indiana CIO Karl Browning will become the state's new Transportation Department commissioner and current state chief technology officer Gerry Weaver will step into Browning's post as CIO.
- By Ethan Butterfield
CGI-AMS changes name to CGI
Making good on a promise CGI Group Inc. made when it bought American Management Systems Inc. in May 2004, the Montreal-based company this month changed the name of its U.S. subsidiary from CGI-AMS Inc. to CGI Inc.
- By Ethan Butterfield
L-1 gets Fla. fingerprint processing under its thumb
Needing help processing more than 70,000 applications annually, the Florida Financial Services Department has tapped L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. to put in place a fingerprint processing network for insurance agents.
- By Ethan Butterfield