EES wins $1 billion DOE IT consolidation deal

Energy Enterprise Solutions LLC won a $1 billion competitive sourcing contract from the Energy Department to provide consolidated IT services?one of the largest federal IT services contracts ever awarded to a small business.

Northrop Grumman inks defense video-teleconferencing deal

Look out, Big Brother. The U.S. military has a new way of keeping an eye on its troops ? and its enemies.

October is fruitful for CompuDyne

CompuDyne Corp. of Annapolis, Md., announced it won awards in October totaling $4.6 million.

Northrop Grumman wins Jordanian command system deal

Northrop Grumman Corp. won a five-year contract worth more than $230 million to modernize the Jordanian armed forces' communications and IT networks and help secure the country against border threats.

Army recruits KEI Pearson for training, logistics support services

KEI Pearson Inc. won a four-year, $4.2 million contract from the Army to provide a range of technical and administrative services to support the global war on terrorism and other Army programs.

ManTech wins $125 million in new national security work

ManTech International Corp. won several new contracts and recompetes worth more than $125 million from federal agencies for national security programs.

Cubic wins Marine Corps aviation simulator deal

Cubic Corp. won a five-year, $43.4 million task order from the Naval Air Systems Command to supply the Marine Corps with instructors and operations and maintenance services for aviation simulators.

Return to the final frontier

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin relied on note cards to help guide the Apollo 11 lunar module to its landing on the moon in 1969.

CSC wins transportation command contract from Defense

Computer Sciences Corp. won a contract worth about $51 million to offer portfolio and IT investment management services for the Defense Department's U.S. Transportation Command.

USPS re-ups Lockheed Martin for address recognition work

Lockheed Martin Corp. won a contract worth up to $120 million to continue improving the U.S. Postal Service's automated systems for recognizing handwritten and machine-printed addresses on letter mail.

CSC, Lockheed talk deal

Computer Sciences Corp. may be the next big acquisition candidate in the realm of non-stop mergers and acquisitions in the federal IT market.

Three win next-gen satellite deals

When they're not building missiles and fighter jets for the government, Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will be making weather forecasting a little easier.

Inside Track: New federal projects

The Securities and Exchange Commission wants vendors to offer follow-on support for its Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval System, called Edgar.

SLOW growth ahead

The expansion of the federal IT budget is expected to slow over the next five years, with the growth rate dropping below 3 percent, according to the Government Electronics and IT Association's annual forecast.

CSC inks flood insurance program support deal

The new award is a follow-on to a 1999 contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency under which Computer Sciences Corp. provides training, consultation and analytical support services as the National Flood Insurance Program's bureau and statistical agent.

Constella wins NIH toxicology program data deal

Constella Group LLC won a five-year, $21 million contract from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to provide statistical and computer support to the National Toxicology Program.

SRA completes Spectrum Solutions buy

SRA International Inc. has completed its acquisition of Spectrum Solutions Group Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Large contractor of the year: Northrop Grumman Corp.

Despite Northrop Grumman Corp.'s standing as one of the largest defense contractors on the planet, the company's representative at the 2005 Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards sounded downright humble when the IT giant was named Large Contractor of the Year.

BearingPoint snares Afghanistan economic policy reform deal

BearingPoint International Inc. won a three-year, $45 million contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to help strengthen the Islamic republic's private sector through economic restructuring.

Large Contractor Executive of the Year (co-winner): J.P. "Jack" London

"Wow! Nice feeling," was how J.P. "Jack" London summed up his selection as one of two large-company executives of the year at the 2005 Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards banquet.