L.A. County re-ups CGI-AMS for ERP work

CGI-AMS has won a five-year, $33 million contract renewal from Los Angeles County to continue providing enterprise resource planning software and services

M/A-Com wins two Army mobile radio deals

M/A-Com Inc. has won contracts totaling $3.6 million to provide radio communications systems for Fort Sill the U.S. Military Academy.

Virginia sets outsourcing table

That Virginia's IT outsourcing initiative is on schedule to award contracts this fall is due in no small measure to work done by state officials to build the widespread support that was lacking in many high-profile failures in other states.

Ontario chooses Maximus for child support payment work

Maximus Inc. has won a four-year, $5.7 million contract from the province of Ontario to provide an integrated case management solution to support the enforcement of child and spousal support payments

Seven companies to consult Navy on contract research

The Navy has awarded the contracts for a program to determine whether it should outsource certain jobs to the private sector or continue to perform them internally.

Two companies win NASA software testing work

Titan Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. each have $200 million contracts to compete for work involving the independent verification and validation of software.

Raytheon gets Massachusetts intelligence center work

Raytheon Co. has won a six-month, $2.9 million contract to install intelligence analysis software for the commonwealth's antiterror fusion center.

Eight companies qualify to chase San Diego IT outsourcing deal

San Diego County has qualified eight major systems integrators to compete as prime contractors for the renewal of its enterprisewide IT outsourcing project.

Navy taps BearingPoint for strategic sourcing work

BearingPoint wins five-year, $55.8 million contract to support the fleet's strategic sourcing initiatives.

Titan wins Navy ship training systems work

Titan Corp. said it won a contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command to help procure engineering and technical services for the Navy's Total Ship Training Systems program.

Identix books Missouri fingerprinting deal

Identix Inc. has won a contract from Missouri to provide statewide electronic fingerprinting services and related processing for licensing and employment purposes.

SAIC finishes Object Sciences buy

Science Applications International Corp. has completed its acquisition of Object Sciences Corp., a move that helps the company support key customers in intelligence, systems integration and analysis.

Harris wins more FAA voice-switching work

Harris Corp. has won a $35 million contract modification from the Federal Aviation Administration to upgrade the voice communications displays used by the nation's air traffic controllers as part of the Voice Switching and Control System.

L-3 wins $250 million TSA maintenance deal

L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems has won a five-year, $250 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration to continue providing maintenance for explosive detection systems.

Alion purchases share in VectorCommand

Alion Science and Technology Corp. has purchased 12 percent of VectorCommand Ltd. in a move to boost its emergency management offerings.

Philadelphia broadcasts change

Cities from around the world are knocking on Philadelphia's door, wanting to know how the City of Brotherly Love launched a wireless network for businesses and citizens.

Behind the virtual battle line

When a homemade bomb explodes in downtown Baghdad, its reverberations are felt as far away as Fort Polk, La., where U.S. soldiers train for duty in Iraq. The lessons learned on the ground about how insurgents use improvised explosive devices are transmitted immediately to Fort Polk's Joint Readiness Training Center.

State CIOs honor Mechling with tech champion award

Harvard lecturer Jerry Mechling won the National Association of State Chief Information Officers technology champion award for his efforts to align business and technology in government.

Panel: Feds should overhaul funding rules

State officials continue to face an uphill battle trying to get the federal government to ease rules governing how they can spend federal funds targeted for state IT systems.

NASCIO: Feds should energize cybersecurity

State chief information officers want Congress to prod the Homeland Security Department into developing a formal state cybersecurity assessment and strategy process.