Editor Nick Wakeman ponders the timing and the motivation behond SBA charges against GTSI that it improperly received small business contract dollars. Is GTSI a target for conducting business as usual?
Once again, Hewlett-Packard Co. has turned to an outsider, naming Leo Apotheker as president and CEO and former Oracle President Ray Lane as non-executive chairman.
The Obama administration has made no decision on the High Road, a procurement policy giving advantages to companies with above-average employee pay and other benefits.
Do government IT pros have the expertise to know a good technical idea when the see it? And, even more importantly, can they distinguish between suggestions that are self-serving from those that are in an agency's interest?
Harris Corp. will upgrade public safety communications for Ontario County, N.Y., under a $9 million contract. The 15-site system is designed to seamlessly interoperate with neighboring jurisdictions, creating a regional capability.
Commonwealth Technology Inc. has acquired QED Inc., a provider of specialized engineering services to the federal government based in Reston, Va. The purchase price was not reported.
CGI Federal Inc. will provide dataset hosting and other IT services to the General Services Administration under a five-year blanket purchase agreement with a ceiling of up to $46 million.
GTSI has been suspended from winning new government contracts but vows to defend itself against charges that it inappropriately received small-business contract dollars.
Driven by a variety of events, strong merger and acquisition activity is expected for the balance of 2010 and well into 2011, writes Jean Stack at Houlihan Lokey.
Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp., Computer Sciences Corp., and Perot Systems Government Services are just a sampling of the the 30 federal IT contractors named to a new 10-year, $5 billion contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nominees for the first NVTC/Washington Technology Government Contractor CTO Innovator Awards were announced today, recognizing their contribution to the industry and government.
Raytheon Co. has won two NASA contracts for satellite systems and infrared imaging technology that have a combined potential value of more than $1.7 billion over the next eight years.
Cisco Systems and Westcon Group North America will pay the government $48 million to settle claims that they made misrepresentations to the General Services Administration in violation of the False Claims Act.
