Competition suffers with shift to federal R&D centers

More agency are looking to federally funded R&D centers as alternative to contracts. The idea hurts competition and is a blow to transparency.

  • By Stan Soloway

Reader's guide to the Top 100

Editor Nick Wakeman points some features on the Top 100 that can make it a valuable tool for learning more about the market.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Lockheed hit by cyber attack

Despite the severity of the attack, Lockheed Martin and the Defense Department say that little damage was done.

  • By Nick Wakeman

How microservers could change the data center

Find out why some experts think microservers are going to give the boot to virtualization in many large datacenters.

  • By John Zyskowski

Think hard, invent something, win a prize

Contests are gaining acceptance as a research tool, Steve Kelman discovers.

CSC gets Postal Service stamp of approval for logistics support

Computer Sciences Corp. will provide management and logistics support to the U.S. Postal Service under a seven-year award that has an estimated total seven-year value of $41.74 million.

  • By David Hubler

Dell Services names two to federal sector posts

Bill Malone is now executive director of Dell Services Federal Government division and Caesar Nieves has been appointed Homeland Security client executive.

  • By David Hubler

DHS paid millions in SBInet invoices without sufficient details, GAO says

The Government Accountability Office said contractor invoices for the $780 million Secure Border Initiative Network program lacked details. Where did they fall short?

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Think twice before selling your company

Depending on your business and what you want, a sale might not be your only exit strategy. Investment banker Jean Stack explores the alternatives.

  • By Jean Stack

Lawmakers try to separate politics, contracting

Two bills would prohibit contractors from including information in a contract proposal about political contributions to candidates or causes.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Indus bolsters BD, fraud offerings

Indus Corp. has hired several people to lead business development and fraud detection and cyber efforts.

  • By Washington Technology staff

AT&T makes $1B cloud bet

AT&T says the cloud will be an important part of its future and it is putting up the money to prove it.

  • By Washington Technology staff

House members back contractors in pay fight

The tax has been tagged as a way to decrease the tax gap and make delinquent companies pay their share of taxes, although many lawmakers disagree.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Karen Evans, Ira Hobbs among those running for IAC executive committee seats

Evans had a surprising reaction after following Hobbs' speech at a membership meeting of the Industry Advisory Council on May 25.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Venable duo to co-lead firm's government contracts group

Venable, one of the country's largest government contract law firms, has named partners Scott Hommer and Paul Debolt co-leaders of its Government Contracts Practice Group.

  • By David Hubler

Raytheon gets Air Force order for secure communications units

Raytheon Co. will supply the Air Force with almost 2,000 additional encrypted communications systems that will cost the military branch $20.7 million.

  • By David Hubler

Government learns social media has a double edge

The public knows where to find your Facebook page and they're increasingly ready to use it to let you know what they think. Are you listening?

Should contractors count when feds want to cut heads?

Members of Congress are wondering if contractors should be included when agencies are looking at reducing their workforce.

  • By Alyah Khan

GSA floats another cloud procurement

The General Services Administration wants to move enterprise IT management to the cloud. But they have a few questions for industry first.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Dell to supply VA with $476M in PCs, services

Dell Corp. will provide the Veterans Affairs Department with PCs, technology and services at more than 1,200 VA sites nationwide under a four-year, $476 million contract that will include approximately 600,000 PCs and monitors.

  • By David Hubler
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