Booz Allen splits
The wait is over — Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
will split into two businesses with the sale of
its government unit to the Carlyle Group.
The company had said for several months
that the move was coming.
Its board of directors has recommended the split, and the sale is expected to close by mid to late 2008. Carlyle is buying a majority stake in the government business for $2.54 billion.
Booz Allen’s commercial business, which will include its international government work, will form a stand-alone company owned and operated by the commercial officers. That business will continue its focus on management consulting.
Ralph Shrader, chairman and chief executive officer, will lead the government business unit.
Booz Allen ranks No. 11 on Washington Technology’s 2008 Top 100 list of the largest federal government prime contractors.
IBM joins FBI ID contract
IBM Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp.
agreed to work together on the $1 billion
contract to develop and maintain the FBI’s
Next Generation Identification system for
federal, state and local authorities.
Lockheed Martin won the 10-year contract in February, but IBM protested the award and work was held up. Big Blue’s announcement that it is joining the team as a subcontractor didn’t mention the protest.
Senators knock DHS cyberstrategy
The Homeland Security Department’s proposed
$294 million cybersecurity initiative
might be overly reliant on contractors and
short on details, said Sens. Joseph Lieberman
(I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine).
DHS’ fiscal 2009 proposal for the National Cyber Security Division inadequately delineated contractor roles, responsibilities and limitations, and it failed to specify how the division would monitor performance, the senators said.
GSA rethinks awards
The General Services Administration will reevaluate
past-performance reviews for all 62
companies that bid on the $50 billion Alliant
contract, and the agency expects to make new
awards by December, a GSA official said.
The agency has similar plans for its Alliant Small Business contract awards because it used the same evaluation template as for the Alliant contract.
AF seeks better cyber offense
The Air Force Research Laboratory is calling
for white papers on conducting successful
offensives against cyberspace adversaries.
