Seven win $498M contract to modernize Army architecture

Seven companies have won a $498 million contract to modernize the Army’s base architecture using commercial products and technology.

HP prevails in protest fight for $3.5B Navy NGEN contract

HP got quite the Halloween treat in its goody bag as the Government Accountability Office denied Harris' protest of its $3.5 billion Navy NGEN award.

GDIT nabs $16M contract for Afghan IT work

General Dynamics Information Technology has won a $16 million task order to provide the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with information technology management services for its work in Afghanistan.

Specpro wins $23.4M contract to support DOD joint medical facilities

Specpro Technical Services has won a $23.4 million contract to provide the Navy with a slew of information technology services in support of the Defense Department joint medical facilities in the National Capital Area/National Capital Region.

NCI wins $7.9M Marine Corps contract for IT support

NCI has won a $7.9 million contract to provide IT support to the U.S. Marine Corps, including SharePoint and .NET application development.

Northrop Grumman wins $43M contract to modernize Joint STARS aircraft

Northrop Grumman has won a $43 million contract to retrofit the Air Force’s Joint STARS aircraft, trainers and laboratories.

Is IBM waving the white flag in battle for CIA contract?

IBM says it won't ask for an injunction to stop Amazon from working on a $600 million CIA cloud contract, essentially ending its fight for the contract. What have we learned, and what questions still remain?

NCI wins $9.4M task order to deliver two data storage nodes

NCI Inc. has won a $9.4 million task order to develop, integrate and deliver two additional nodes of the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS) Data Storage and Dissemination system.

Lockheed-Northrop venture wins $93M Apache contract

A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman has won a $92.8 million contract to provide life cycle contractor support to the U.S. Army's Apache helicopter program.

Lockheed fights for lost radar contract

Lockheed Martin is fighting to hang onto a $30 million contract to develop a new radar system for the Navy that it lost to one of its biggest rivals.

DynCorp wins option to manage War Reserve Materiel assets

DynCorp International has won an option to continue managing the Air Force’s War Reserve Materiel assets in the Middle East and United States.

Northrop Grumman wins $143M contract to modernize Defense Travel System

Northrop Grumman has won a $143 million contract with the GSA to develop new capabilities for the Defense Travel System.

Raytheon nabs $12M contract to support military satellite broadcast system

Raytheon has won a $12 million sole sourced contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with sustainment services in support of the Military Satellite Communications System Global Broadcast System.

Lockheed Martin wins $113M contract to provide training simulators

Lockheed Martin has won a $113 million contract with the Air Force to design, develop, field and sustain aircrew training devices for HH-60G Pave Hawk search and rescue helicopters.

Forensic Technology wins $73.4M ATF contract for ballistic information network

Forensic Technology WAI Inc. has won a $73.4 million contract to support the ballistics information network for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Two win $31.8M contract to research supersonic engines

Taitech Inc. and Innovative Scientific Solutions have won a $31.8 million task order contract to support the Air Force's research and development efforts around supersonic engines.

State backs off $150M DynCorp contract

A pair of bid protests have led the State Department to nix a $150 million contract award to DynCorp, and instead the agency will redo the competition for a global IT modernization and supply chain solution.

Lockheed wins $17.1M in contracts to support military

Lockheed Martin has won two support contracts with the Navy and Defense Logistics Agency for a combined value of $17.1 million.

CMS taps 'general contractor' to over see HealthCare.gov fixes

Quality Software Services has been tapped by CMS to be the "general contractor" the agency needs to oversee fixes to the troubled portal, a role the agency had been handling on its own.

Does the HealthCare.gov debacle point to bigger problems?

Maybe HealthCare.gov's disastrous launch wasn't the fault of any individual contractor, but its failings put a spotlight on a recurring problem with government projects: too often contractors and their government customers forget that IT is a team sport, and you almost always fail if you don't pull together.