Lockheed Martin wins $78M contract to upgrade missile system

Lockheed Martin has won a $78 million contract to upgrade the Army’s Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS).

Tetra Tech awarded $11.2M good governance initiative contract

Tetra Tech received an $11.2 million contract support the country of Georgia improve its processes and increase the public's involvement with the government.

Kratos wins $41.5M in awards to provide satellite operations

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has won a number of contract modifications and one option with the Air Force totaling $41.5 million to provide satellite operations.

Cubic wins $6.5M contract to support Italian Army

Cubic Defense Applications has won a $6.5 million option from its Italian partner STE S.p.A. to improve training capacity for the Italian Army.

HealthCare.gov sticks with Accenture

Accenture wins five-year, $563 million contract to continue supporting the HealthCare.gov portal.

Lessons from the Pragmatics-Avaya protest decision

The protest battle between Pragmatics and Avaya pitted prime against a former teammate, and the situation illustrates the fine line between winning and losing in today's market.

2014 ends with flurry of contract awards

2014 came to a close with a flurry of contract awards, some hitting values into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Here’s a roundup of the major IT-related awards from the last week and a half of the year.

Kratos wins $72.3M contract to provide Air Force with technical support

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has won a $72.3 million contract to support a test and training branch of the Air Force.

CGI gets second shot at Navy CANES contract

Because of an error in how the Navy evaluated pricing on the CANES contract to modernize ship-based networks, CGI Federal gets another opportunity to capture a spot on the contract.

DLA seeks support for five years of org changes

The Defense Logistics Agency wants to put support resources in place so it can meet anticipated mission changes and workload in the next five years.

Austal wins $14M option to continue littoral combat ship support

Austal USA has won a $14 million option from the Navy to continue its support of the littoral combat ship program.

World Wide Technology wins $427M contract to support DISA

World Wide Technology has won a $427 million contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide enterprise services for specified operating environments.

Raytheon adds new Patriot customer with $2.1B Qatar contract

Raytheon has won a $2.4 billion contract to produce five Patriot Air and Missile Defense System units for use by Qatar.

Opinion

How to avoid a deadly case of incumbent-itis

Incumbents still win 60 percent of their recompetes, but that means there's a 40 percent chance of losing. Here's how to avoid adding to that statistic.

Raytheon wins $42.6M contract for broadcast terminals

Raytheon has won a $42.6 million contract to support the Navy’s global broadcast service (GBS) below deck terminals.

General Dynamics wins $36.5M contract to support submarine technologies

General Dynamics has won a $36.5 million contract modification to develop advanced submarine technologies for current and future undersea platforms for the Navy.

Acuitus wins $45M Navy contract for help desk IT training

Acuitus has won a $45 million contract to provide help desk IT training in support of the Navy’s Center for Information Dominance.

BAE Systems to provide C4I system lifecycle support under $28.4M Navy contract

BAE Systems has won a $28.4 million contract in to support the Navy’s the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s Integrated Communication and Information Systems Division.

Hackers hit OPM background investigations contractor

OPM is issuing warnings to nearly 50,000 people who might have had their personal data exposed because its contractor, KeyPoint Government Solutions, may have had their systems hacked.

Caelum Research wins $54.7M Army data contract

Caelum Research will support the Army Aberdeen Test Center's test and evaluation work under a $54.7 million contract.