The Energy Department chose Wackenhut Services Inc. for a five-year, $163 million contract to operate the Nonproliferation and National Security Institute in Albuquerque, N.M., and other related activities in the Washington area and outside the United States.
As federal officials gear up for what is expected to be another dangerous wildfire season, they will have a new firefighting tool, thanks to a geographic information system application created in response to last year's crisis.
The practice of public-private competitions for information technology contracts does not account for best value to government customers, according to the Information Technology Association of America, Arlington, Va.
The General Services Administration is moving to fix problems in the much criticized Metropolitan Area Acquisition telecommunications program, but the telecom companies holding MAA contracts also need to improve their performance, said Sandra Bates, commissioner of the agency's Federal Technology Service.
Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., has received a five-year contract extension worth $300 million to $400 million to provide information resource management services to the Department of Energy's Hanford site in the state of Washington.
Once, when warfighters had only to arm, assemble and attack, the strongest triumphed. Now battle supremacy rests with the computer-enabled. For the Defense Department, information technology is providing the mission-critical dexterity essential for gathering intelligence, coordinating the movement of supplies, troops and weapons and ultimately prevailing in conflicts large or small.
Science Applications International Corp. has been awarded a task order to modernize the FBI's investigative computer systems and migrate them to a single Web-based enterprise solution under the bureau's Trilogy project.
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $125 million contract to develop and field the En Route Communications Gate for the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency announced June 11.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the Boeing Co. each unveiled plans June 6 to improve the capacity of the air traffic control system in the United States and cut down on delays that have afflicted commercial airlines and travelers.
Anteon Corp. has won a five-year, $15.6 million contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center for computer systems operation and maintenance for ship combat systems.
Information technology companies are uncertain whether they can meet a June 25 deadline that says all electronic and IT products they sell to the U.S. government must be accessible to people with disabilities.
The Transportation Department's Transportation Acquisition Service Center selected contractors for its seven-year, $980 million Specialized Technical and Technology User Support (STATUS) contract May 21.
Successful hacker attacks against Web sites of the State Department, NASA, the Naval Weapons Research Center and even the White House ? all within recent months ? underscore that security remains the Achilles' heel of Web technology.
TRW Inc. announced May 29 that it won a five-year contract, with a potential value up to $50 million, to provide electronic systems technical services for the U.S. Army's Paladin howitzer and its ammunition vehicle. The award, by the Army's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, follows TRW's integration of its battlefield digitization system into the howitzer cannon last December.
Verizon Communications Inc. won a five-year, $45 million contract from the Treasury Department for maintenance and support of the agency's voice communications network in the Washington area.
