DRC nets $70 million Army deal

Dynamics Research Corp. has won a subcontract to provide training software and documentation for the Army's Future Combat Systems program.

IGov wins Defense wireless deal

IGov.com, McLean, Va. has won a blanket purchase agreement to sell wireless services and products to the Defense Department.

Accela sells Fla. environmental work

Software vendor Accela Inc. has won a $4 million contract from Dade County, Fla., for software and support to the Department of Environmental Resources Management.

White House ties research to results

	Preparing for the fiscal 2005 budget, the White House is stressing that agencies must tie research and development to their missions, according to a June 5 guidance signed by White House science adviser John Marburger and Mitchell Daniels, then director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Application servers fuel e-gov

A new e-government tax program helped 50,000 Californians last year, though they'll never know it. That's because the program prevented the state from mistakenly sending them stern reminders to pay their taxes.

Tech Success: Weblogs help Justice take a bite out of crime

Often, Justice Department analysts and law enforcement officials share what they know about narcotics dealers and terrorists by trading e-mails. But this informal information exchange can be messy: E-mail servers quickly fill up with duplicate copies sent to multiple recipients. No one is usually tasked with keeping a central repository of all the documents and the comments they generate.

Micro Warehouse Gov/Ed lays off 11

<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED)</font color> Government information technology reseller Micro Warehouse Gov/Ed Inc. will be affected minimally by layoffs at its parent company, an executive says.

SGI wins Los Alamos sale

The Department of Energy has purchased a visualization system from Silicon Graphics Inc. to help its labs analyze America's nuclear stockpile.

Autonomy to acquire Virage

Autonomy Corporation plc, Cambridge, U.K., is planning to buy Virage Inc., San Mateo, Calif., in a $24.8 million cash deal, Autonomy announced Thursday.

ManTech wins $6.8 million Air Force work

ManTech International Corp., Fairfax, Va., won a $6.8 million contract from the Air Force to support space control operations, the company announced this week.

MicroStrategy's postal win marks increased gvmt presence

MicroStrategy Inc.'s $5 million contract to provide business intelligence software and support to the Postal Service marks the company's increased emphasis on the government sector, a top executive says.

NIST: Security products need standardization

Despite wide use across government, intrusion detection systems have no standard performance metrics, according to a new report.

Sun, VeriSign promoting new PKI products

Sensing a growing market for online identity management, Sun Microsystems and VeriSign are offering new identity-management tools to government.

Tech Success: Senate uses iAnywhere everywhere

Few government employees spend more time away from their desks than members of Congress. They're always on the move, often racing between meetings with committees, constituents and colleagues. Keeping them abreast of the latest schedule changes, memos, press meetings and volumes upon volumes of policy updates is a challenge for their staffs.

Anatomy of a multimedia system

In June, the Defense Department awarded TranTech Inc., Alexandra, Va., a $9 million contract to build an asset management system to hold digital images, audio, video and other documents.

Unisys wins TSA port safety pilot project

Unisys Corp. will install improved safeguards in the Port of New York and New Jersey to scan contents of containerized shipments.

McDonald Bradley chairwoman steps down

Sharon McDonald, chairwoman of integrator McDonald Bradley Inc., has stepped down.

AMS wins $100 million intel work

American Management Systems Inc., Fairfax, Va., has recently won several contracts totaling more than $100 million from intelligence agencies.

General Dynamics wins $42 million U.K. helicopter work

General Dynamics Corp., Falls Church, Va., has won a $42 million contract to install two-way data communications capabilities on British helicopters.

Tumbleweed acquires Valicert

Security solutions provider Tumbleweed Communications Corp. has completed its acquisition of Valicert Inc.