News from several areas: a new audit on open government, an interview with former deputy CTO Beth Noveck, crowdsourcing on environmental research, and a National Library of Medicine video contest.
Lockheed Martin Corp. will provide training and technical support to the Coast Guard under a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that has a $57 million ceiling value.
Gary Winkler, who recently retired after more than four years as the Army program executive officer for Enterprise Information Systems, is planning to take a two-pronged approach to his new civilian career as a national security consultant.
Merger and acquisition activity in the IT and communications sector made a strong recovery in 2010, with more than 1,900 M&A deals, a new IDC survey finds.
As contractors make moves to realign businesses with growing sectors, SAIC is selling off oil and gas IT service units and buoying its acquisition strategy.
Apptis Inc. and Science Applications International Corp. have been awarded two contract modifications by the Defense Information Systems Agency that will add two six-month option periods and increase the ceiling amount of the contracts to $4.8 billion from $4.2 billion.
SAIC saw its fourth-quarter revenues increase 3 percent over the previous year's quarter, from $2.68 billion to $2.77 billion, while revenues for fiscal 2011 rose a modest 2 percent overall to $11.1 billion.
Vendors need to be ready to answer questions about cost, security and applications when their customers look to the cloud computing, writes DLT Solutions CIO Van Ristau.
Alion Science and Technology Corp. has won a five-year, $200 million delivery order to provide professional support services to the Navy Program Executive Office - Integrated Warfare Systems.
FedStore Corp. continues to revamp its executive team, hiring Jay Jabbari, a 22-year industry veteran, as senior vice president of sales. Jabbari will report directly to President Skip Trahern, who joined the IT services provider in mid-March.
