Advanced Concepts Inc. has won a blanket purchase agreement to help the Defense Department improve the Program Management Office's Defense Travel System.
L-3 Services Inc. will provide tactical video systems to Marine Corps bases worldwide under a contract that will be worth up to $326 million over three years.
Affiliated Computer Services has acquired Bowers and Associates, a Wisconsin-based provider of productivity management services and health care data analytics.
A flurry of international deals involving European buyers ofU.S. defense and civilian contractors has been under waysince early 2007. Of 292 transactions by strategic buyersof U.S.-based defense companies in 2007, 50 buyerswere foreign ? 17 percent. So far in 2008, two of 17 deals involveforeign buyers.
A common business strategy in the federal market is tostart as a small business, taking advantage of the socioeconomicpolicy that requires large businesses to subcontractto small, disadvantaged businesses andagencies to award 23 percent of their prime contracts to them.
A recent court decision highlights the risks that a governmentcontractor faces when the government believes that thecompany has made false statements in proposals, or otherdocuments, that it has submitted to the government.
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $1 billion FBI contract to develop the agency's new biometric database, an upgrade to the agency's primary fingerprint collection system and database.
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $1 billion FBI contract to develop the agency's new biometric database, an upgrade to the agency's primary fingerprint collection system and database.
