SI wins $11 million Agriculture contract
SI International Inc. has won a five-year, $10.7 million contract to maintain the Department of Agriculture's cargo tracking system.
Raytheon identifies focus for info solutions division
The newly formed information solutions division of Raytheon Co. will focus on four areas within the government IT arena, said Tom Anderson, vice president and chief operating officer of the new Reston, Va.-based division.
Tech success: Navy sails with SiteScape
Managing the development of a large, complex system can itself be a complex task. Chains of responsibility need to be charted and followed. Every time a change is made, appropriate personnel, in a specific order, need to approve it -- some of who may be located thousands of miles apart. Program managers need to know the status of all the tasks under way to understand how the project, as a whole, is progressing.
Boeing, SAIC win contract for Future Combat Systems
A team led by Boeing Co., Chicago, and Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, has won a $14.9 billion contract to develop and demonstrate prototypes of assault vehicles, sensors and related networking equipment for the Army's Future Combat Systems program.
Power to the paperless
The Air Force is retiring the phrase "electronic form." Two years ago, when the Air Force Departmental Publishing Office was tasked with converting the service's 17,000 forms into electronic format, service officials decided the term "e-form" didn't describe what happens when documents are put online.
Boeing, SAIC win Future Combat Systems work
A team led by Boeing and SAIC has won a $14.9 billion contract to develop and show prototypes of assault vehicles, sensors and related networking equipment for the Army's Future Combat Systems program.
Raytheon bags NASA, Army contracts
Raytheon Co. has won NASA and Army contracts with combined potential value of $610 million.
Agriculture buys $1 million worth of EF Johnson IP radios
The sales, won by the company's EF Johnson division, represent a growing market for radios that are Internet-ready and meet emerging interoperability standards, said Jim Ridgell, vice president of EF Johnson's federal business unit.
Pa. adopts VeriSign's managed PKI service for JNET
Pennsylvania's Integrated Justice Network now uses digital certification services from VeriSign Inc.
Madison wins $14 million Air Force work
Madison Research Corp. won a $14 million contract to support the Air Armament Center at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
Microsoft's new server pitched as integrator money-saver
The release of Microsoft Corp's new server operating system is being pitched to integrators as a way to save money on fixed-price contracts, the company claims.
Open source gets secure
Two new efforts to certify the security capabilities of open-source products show an increasing interest among federal agencies to use the software for mission-critical work.
Five win $1.2 billion in defense work
Five companies won a spot on a $1.26 billion contract to help develop techniques of thwarting weapons of mass destruction.
AMD attacks Intel domain
Mark Seager, a contracting officer at the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will change the wording in the next solicitation he issues for servers. In previous purchases, Seager specified the particular make of processors to be used in the servers, often naming market leader Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. But an eager challenger, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., has produced a microprocessor that could serve just as well, if not better, for the needed servers.
Lockheed Martin wins $3.9 million joint interoperability work
Lockheed Martin Corp. has been awarded $3.9 million to build a system that will allow the military services to share battlespace information.
RCI wins $21 million Army base support work
Resource Consultants Inc., Vienna, Va., won a $21 million contract to provide personnel support services to Fort Knox, Ky.
Abt wins $10 million in Iraq heath care rebuilding
The U.S. Agency for International Development has selected Abt Associates Inc. to help stabilize Iraq's health system infrastructure.
HP, Navy back open-source security initiatives
As the use of open-source software, such as Linux, increases in the public sector, commercial and government agencies are taking steps to obtain credentials necessary for open source use in high-security environments.<br>
GAO defines enterprise architecture benchmarks
Responding to agency requests, the General Accounting Office has updated its guide on enterprise architectures with expanded metrics to measure how well an agency succeeds in implementation.
Raytheon awarded $8 million DARPA work
Raytheon Co. won an $8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a laser radar imaging system.
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