Harris completes Milstar log-on to get ready for Navy competition

Harris Corp. has completed a point-to-point satellite call under simulated high-sea shipboard conditions using an advanced multi-band prototype system to prepare for an upcoming Navy contract competition.

TCS starts count down on new satcom work

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. will help the Army with encrypted multimedia satellite communications under what could be a $29 million contract.

Immigration Services seeks database for investigations unit

Request for proposals seeks commercial database that provides an integrated data collection system to track investigations.

Unisys to continue Justice asset tracking system work

Unisys Corp. will continue supporting a consolidated asset tracking system used by the Justice Department to monitor property seized from criminals under a new contract.

GlobeComm gets more NATO force tracking work

GlobeComm Systems Inc. will deliver additional technology to support a system that tracks friendly forces for NATO through a $13.1 million contract.

Unisys wins $110M Australian IT outsourcing deal

Unisys Corp. will furnish a wide range of outsourced desktop services to the Australian Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Department through a new contract.

DOD InfoSec standards may be applied to contractors

The Defense Department is proposing to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to address training requirements that apply to contractor personnel who perform information assurance functions for DOD.

Lockheed wins CDC bioterror response deal

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue providing logistical and operational support to the agency's Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response.

NCI gives VA regional system a checkup

NCI Inc. won a three-year, $6.7 million task order to modernize the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System.

ManTech to research sonar systems for the Navy

Employees of ManTech International Corp. begin work this month on a Navy contract to research and test underwater sonar systems for identifying and tracking submarines and ships.

CACI wins Air Force operations center deal

CACI International Inc. will support the 13th Air Force's newly established Air and Space Operations Center's Air Mobility Division through a five-year, $24 million contract.

L-1 gets Air Marshal Service R&D work

L-1 Identity Solutions has won a contract from the Homeland Security Department to develop facial recognition technology for the Transportation Security Administration's Federal Air Marshal Service.

EPA adds to SRA's Brownfields to-do list

SRA International won a contract from the Environmental Protection Agency to deliver a broad range of technical and analytical support to the agency's Brownfields program.

WFI wins Seaport-e administrative support subcontract

Wireless Facilities Inc. has won a subcontract from Indus Technology Inc. to help deliver administrative support services to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division.

GSA issues RFQ for HSPD-12 replacement contract

The much-anticipated replacement contract for the General Services Administration's Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 managed-service office asks vendors to provide assistance to agencies in handing out smart cards and developing card management systems for at least 40 agencies and 420,000 federal employees.

Kansas re-ups EDS for Medicaid fiscal services

EDS Corp. will continue administering fiscal agent services for the state of Kansas through a $91.7 million contract extension.

GSA express program to shorten time it takes to get on schedules

One of Lurita Doan's goals as administrator of the General Services Administration is to decrease the time and burden for vendors to get on the Federal Supply Schedules.

BAE Systems to head up next phase of DARPA satellite research

BAE Systems will lead a team of companies in the next development phases of the Novel Satellite Communications program.

Q&A | The network is still the computer

Don't buy the hardware and the software, buy the services. That's been the mantra in recent years for Scott McNealy and other executives at Sun Microsystems Inc.

Hot topics for the New Year

Politics, must-have technologies and major new contracts are front and center in 2007. Permeating these issues is the continuing war in Iraq and Afghanistan.