The Northern Virginia Technology Council announced the election of eight officers to the board of directors as well as the appointment of six new board members by the incoming chairman.
BAE Systems Inc. will provide critical information security safeguards to the FBI under a $40 million task order awarded on the five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity Information Assurance Program Support contract vehicle, which is valued at $134 million.
Verizon Business will help the Health and Human Services Department implement the new health care reform law by providing a variety of IT services, under a new $169 million Networx Universal contract.
SRA International Inc. is selling its Airport Operations Solutions group to ITT Corp., a high-tech engineering and manufacturing company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Government agencies looking to set up private cloud infrastructures have another option now that Oracle has entered the fray, joining rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
Since 2001, the Office of Management has championed a number of ideas or programs intended to bring order to federal IT spending. But has it really made a difference?
IBM Corp. is buying Netezza Corp., a publicly held provider of high-performance analytics, in a cash transaction for $27 per share or approximately $1.7 billion after adjusting for cash.
The National Institutes of Health has issued a solicitation for the long-awaited Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 governmentwide IT contract.
Safran, an international high-technology group whose core businesses are in aerospace, defense and security, is buying a scaled-down L-1 Identity Solutions Inc., after the sale of L-1’s intelligence units to BAE Systems Inc. The M&A deals are worth more than $1.6 billion.
Company executives should not expect to walk out of their first meeting with an agency OSDBU with a signed and sealed contract, especially if they come to the session ill-prepared.
The Veterans Affairs Department is finding that up to 25 percent of the vendors at some VA facilities are not complying with certification requirements to ensure they are meeting protocols for protecting sensitive personal medical information of patients.
