PureEdge Solutions Inc. has been awarded a contract worth about $6.7 million to develop electronic forms for the Air Force, the company announced Nov. 18.
Something was different at this year's annual meeting of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. Not just one, but two heavy hitters from the Bush administration gave keynote speeches.
<FONT SIZE=2>Federal government spending on information technology will total more than $74 billion in fiscal 2003, according to a forecast by an IT trade association.</FONT>
General Dynamics Corp., L-3 Communications Corp. and ViaSat Inc. each won $10 million contracts to help develop an inline encryption device for high-speed classified networks.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a five-year, $228 million contract with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The blanket purchase agreement, calls for Northrop Grumman Information Technology to support the primary IT infrastructure and IT support services for more than 100 INS offices throughout the United States and at several overseas offices.
Under the follow-on contract, Computer Sciences Corp. will continue providing scientific, engineering and technical assistance to the Missile Defense Agency.
The federal information technology marketplace will be filled with contract opportunities during the next two years, but contractors seeking success in the rapidly growing market must focus on meeting individual agencies' needs rather than selling their own strengths.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Jack Battersby recently experienced an e-learning contract bidding process unlike any other. The State Department put his company, mGen Inc., and several others through three days of onsite product demonstrations, essentially allowing the agency's user community to test drive the software before making a buying decision.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>SCORM, or Sharable Content Object Reference Model, was developed by public- and private-sector organizations under the auspices of the Defense Department's Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative. The initiative began in 1997 to promote cooperation among government agencies, industry and academia to develop e-learning standardization.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Many IT contracts include training elements. The following procurements specifically request electronic training elements such as computer-based training, distance learning and teleconferencing.</FONT>
Investors in the federal and<FONT SIZE=2> commercial information technology space have watched Electronic Data Systems Corp. go from high flying to struggling. One issue EDS is tackling is the eight-year, $6.9 billion Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract awarded in October 2000. </FONT>
The task order from the Department of Health and Human Services is to integrate a managed security service from Internet Security Systems Inc. into 12 HHS departments.
The request for proposals is for content management software for GSA's FirstGov portal, Federal Asset Sales site and several other Web sites the agency runs.
Science Applications International Corp. has been chosen by the National Security Agency to carry out the technology demonstration platform phase of the Trailblazer program, the NSA's modernization of its signals intelligence capabilities.
