Big bucks mark year-end contract awards

Fiscal 2010 came to a close with several billion-dollar contract awards. Who came out on top?

Motorola provides CBP with communications upgrades

Motorola Inc. will provide communications equipment and technology for the Homeland Security Department’s Customs and Border Protection agency efforts under a $30 million contract.

Lockheed, General Dynamics protest $2.6B DHS award

Rivals want the General Services Administration and Homeland Security Department to rethink their decision to award Northrop Grumman the contract to build the infrastructure for the new DHS headquarters campus.

11 win GSA cloud computing contracts

Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings through GSA's cloud storefront will provide federal, state, local and tribal agencies with cloud storage, virtual machines and Web hosting to support an ongoing expansion of cloud computing capabilities across government.

Networx is hare fast, but awards are turtle slow

During the past month, only two statements of work have moved a step closer to transitioning services from the old FTS2001 system to Networx, and just three awards have been made.

Outside ‘contractor’ tapped for HHS research tool development

Thomson Reuters, best known as a collector and disseminator of news and information, has been chosen by the Health and Human Services Department to develop a tool to enable researchers to perform comparative effectiveness studies.

BAE wins $300M DIA next-gen desktop upgrade

BAE Systems will modernize the Defense Intelligence Agency information system under a five-year award that has a $300 million ceiling.

Serco helps VA reintegrate, train vets for jobs

Serco Inc. will provide the Veterans Affairs Department with program management assistance under a competitively won task order valued at approximately $20 million.

CACI helps Navy track ordnance worldwide

CACI International Inc. will provide program management and technical support to the Navy under a five-year, $36 million prime contract.

Ace Info wins $145M Coast Guard IT contract

Ace Info Solutions Inc., a small-business Homeland Security Department contractor, will provide the Coast Guard with a range of information technology services, thanks to a five-year, $145 million Core Technologies Services contract from the Coast Guard Operations Systems Center in Kearneysville, W.Va.

Alion continues pollutant research assistance at EPA

Alion Science and Technology Corp. will continue supporting the Environmental Protection Agency's atmospheric pollutants research under a five-year task order that could be worth as much as $72 million.

First try is the charm for Ellumen

On its first attempt at making the Fast 50, Ellumen Inc. came in at No. 50 with federal sales of $5.53 million in 2009 and a compound annual growth rate of 63.7 percent.

Infrastructure investments fuel MicroTech's success

MicroTech has parlayed partnerships, quality processes and technology expertise into a track record of growth.

SRA assistance continues on NIH cancer research

SRA International Inc. will continue providing bioinformatics support to the National Institutes of Health under a task order that could be worth as much as $17.9 million over five years if all options are exercised.

2020 scores four wins to close out fiscal 2010

2020 Company LLC won a pair of single awards and captured spots on two large task order contracts.

An inside look at Northrop's $2.6B DHS headquarters job

Northrop Grumman Corp. prepares to take on the biggest construction job in Washington since the Pentagon was built.

GlobalNet snares 3 FDA contracts totaling $81 million

GlobalNet Services Inc. will provide a variety of IT services to the Food and Drug Administration under three recently awarded contracts that have a combined value of $81 million.

No summer doldrums for Citizant’s fed contracts pursuit

Citizant Inc. won new government contracts that combined are worth approximately $42 million over the next five years, the company reported today.

CGI continues IT support for Marines’ manpower branch

CGI Federal Inc. will provide information technology services to the Marine Corps under a five-year, $11 million contract.

BAE provides call center support to pension agency

BAE Systems Inc. will support the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation with call center assistance under a five-year contract valued at $10.8 million.