GTSI Wins Contract For Ruggedized Notebooks

GTSI Corp., Chantilly Va., has won a three-year blanket purchase agreement worth up to $28 million to supply the Marine Corps with ruggedized notebook computers, the company announced Sept. 11.

New Evaluation Methodology Saves VA $30 Million

A new methodology of evaluating IT investments has allowed Veterans Affairs to save $30 million, according to a case study released by the Federal Chief Information Officers Council.

IBM Sees Future in Grid Computing

While the new concept of grid computing has started to flourish in the academic community, officials with IBM Corp. already are eyeing corporate and government applications that could follow recent experimental projects the company has won.

Resellers Hustle for Fed Year-End Dollars

Radio ads are touting trade-in deals for government legacy systems ... Busy federal contracting officers receive "survival kits" filled with snacks and supplies ... Airplanes pull advertising banners across the hazy Washington sky.

Study: Government IT Workers Deserve Raise

The pay system should be revamped for federal IT workers, according to a study commissioned by the CIO Council and the Administrative Office of the Courts.

Red Hat CEO Proposes Non-Profit Organization to Help Schools

Commercial Linux vendor Red Hat Inc., Durham, N.C. wants to establish a non-profit organization that would introduce Linux and open source software to the education market.

SGI Fed Wins Livermore Supercomputing Work

SGI Federal Inc. and Linux NetworX Inc. won a $2 million contract to provide a Linux supercomputing cluster to the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Pentagon CIO Eyes Network-Centric Architectures

The Department of Defense will pursue network-centric technologies, according to its new chief information officer, John Stenbit.

CIA Incubator Technologies Ready for Active Duty

In-Q-Tel Inc., the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm, has invested $30 million over the past two years in companies with promising technologies.

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PeopleSoft Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., has licensed its PeopleSoft 8 human resources management system to the Defense Department to serve about 3.1 million military personnel worldwide.

Air Force Taps Northrop Grumman for Data System

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been chosen by the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a real-time systems recovery program for distributed command and control systems.

Fingerprinting Puts a More Foolproof Touch on Prime Time

When NASA needed a foolproof way of controlling who entered its new Triana Science and Operations Center at the University of California in San Diego, it went for fingerprint-based access.

General Dynamics Wins Army Telecom Contract

General Dynamics Corp. won a contract worth up to $98 million to supply local telephone service for the Army.

CSC Promotes Fed Sector President

Paul Cofoni, president of Computer Science Corp.'s federal sector, has been elected a corporate vice president.

GAO: IRS Needs Better Control of Modernization

The IRS still needs to improve controls over its business systems modernization program,according to a GAO report.

Qwest to Equip Maryland High-Speed Network

Qwest Communications International Inc. has been awarded a contract to supply Maryland with fiber-optic backbone-level Internet access for the "Network Maryland" project.

Northrop Grumman Wins Surveillance Contract

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded $45 million contract to develop a Navy battlefield analysis system, called Coastal Battlefield Reconnaissance and Analysis.

Accenture Gets $33.6 Million to Upgrade IRS.gov

Accenture Ltd. won a five-year, $33.6 million project to redesign and support the Internal Revenue Service's Web site.

IBM, Qwest to Equip $53M NSF Research Network

IBM Corp. and Qwest Communications International Inc. were chosen to support the National Science Foundation's three-year $53 million grid computing project.

Oh, Canada: Gov't Offers New Online

Canada's ambitious plan to be the world's most-connected government is expected to generate billions of dollars of work for systems integrators and other information technology contractors.