VSE Corp. will provide a broad range of technical support services to the Army required to sustain the family of vehicles used to remove improvised explosive devices.
BAE Systems Inc. and its partner Thales North America Inc. will collaborate on designing combat identification solutions to reduce the risk of friendly fire.
The Defense Department’s fiscal 2009 information technology budget request of $33 billion represents a 3 percent increase over DOD’s enacted fiscal 2008 IT budget.
Though December is historically a slow month for mergers and acquisitions, Computer Sciences Corp. strategically double-dipped to capture Defense Department business locally and in Europe.
Boeing is protesting the award of a $1.1 billion contract for weather satellites to Lockheed Martin Corp. Meanwhile, Science Applications International Corp.’s nearly $100 million sale of nonintrusive inspection systems to the Army is proceeding apace.
DataPath Inc. has won a large contract from the Army to manufacture and integrate conversion kits that will enable battlefield satellite terminals to operate using the Wideband Global Satcom system.
The request was short on details, but did indicate the military wanted units with a variety of tele- and face-to-face psychological and traumatic brain injury treatments.
