DynCorp wins $61M contract to support Saudi Arabia

DynCorp has won a $61 million Army contract to provide maintenance support for the Saudi Land Forces Aviation Command aviation program.

Centralization, consolidation reshapes government IT landscape

Led by OMB and agency CIOs, what and how the government is buying IT products is changing, and it'll have a ripple affect across the entire landscape.

Charles River Analytics nabs $8.2M software contract

Charles River Analytics Inc. has won an $8.2 million contract to provide the Air Force with software.

Raytheon BBN Technologies wins $7.7M system lifecycle software contract

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. has won a $7.7 million Air Force contract for Interfaces, Models, and Monitoring for Resource-Aware Transformations that Augment the Lifecycles of Systems (IMMoRTALS) software.

Opera Solutions to provide operational analytics under $28M CMS contract

Opera Solutions has won a $28 million contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to provide operational analytics for the Health Insurance Marketplaces under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Leidos scores $661.8M contract to support airborne platform

Leidos has won a $661.8 million contract with the Army to design, produce, integrate and test for the Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced (ARL-E) program of record.

Salient CRGT wins $15M contract to support FDA center

Salient CRGT has won a $15 million Food and Drug Administration contract to support the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, or CVM.

Mercury Systems wins $41.8M contract for memory modulators

Mercury Systems has won a $41.8 million contract with the Navy to deliver 200 advanced miniaturized Digital RG Memory modulators.

19 years and counting

Editor Nick Wakeman looks back on his 19 years with Washington Technology and sees a market that is still challenging and fascinating with no shortage of good stories to tell.

Systems Planning and Analysis nabs $75.7M program support contract

Systems Planning and Analysis has won a potentially $75.7 million sole source contract to support Navy programs.

Lockheed Martin wins $11.6M contract mod to continue CASS support

Lockheed Martin has won an $11.6 million contract modification to continue its support of the Consolidated Automated Support System.

Agencies in need of application modernization, report finds

A recent MeriTalk report found that 92 percent of federal IT managers say that it is urgent for their agency to modernize legacy applications.

Comtech dishes out $430.8M to acquire TeleCommunication Systems Inc.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has acquired TeleCommunication Systems Inc. in a $430.8 million deal that brings TCS’ C4ISR and next-gen 911 services capabilities to Comtech.

Citizant wins $10M integration support contract

Citizant has won a $10 million technical integration support services contract to help deploy the IRS’ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Cat applications.

Fairfax chamber adopts new regional name

The Fairfax County, Va., Chamber of Commerce wants to present more of a regional image and will begin calling itself the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce starting in January.

Sen. Warner's big tech opportunities

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia makes a case for his state's leadership in three big tech areas -- big data, cyber and unmanned systems.

Air Force adds large biz winners to $5B cyber contract

The Air Force has added ten large businesses to the winning pool of a $5 billion cybersecurity and information systems contract first named in October 2015.

Tecolote Research wins $7.3M acquisition support contract

Tecolote Research Inc. has won a $7.3 million task order with the Air Force to support the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Remote Sensing Systems Directorate.

Splunk names new president and CEO

Splunk Inc. has appointed Doug Merritt to replace Godfrey Sullivan as the company’s president and chief executive officer.

Dell fighting for lost Education Department data center contract

Dell is putting up a fight for a $225 million incumbent contract it lost to HP to support a long-time customer, the Office of Federal Student Aid in Plano, Texas.