The sudden decision by the Defense Security Service to halt processing of new and periodic renewals of security clearances for contractor employees further exacerbated an already troubled process.
The Defense Department has issued a slew of policy pronouncements and rule changes to ensure that its employees use GSA schedule contracts in prudent, cost-effective, legally sound ways, both contractually and fiscally speaking.
Tessco Technologies Inc. won a contract with the Maryland Department of Budget and Management to provide state and local government agencies with wireless communication hardware equipment.
Logistics Applications Inc. finally won a facilities management services contract with the Energy Department, after the company's initial 2005 win of the deal was protested by the National Treasury Employees Union.
Rep. Tom Davis has called on the Office of Electronic Government to intervene in the Treasury Department's plans to award its own contentious billion-dollar communications contract instead of using the General Services Administration's Networx telecom vehicle.
The U.S. subsidiary of Offshore Systems International Ltd. won contracts from two Defense Department agencies to provide prototype display solutions for improving battlespace communications.
Led by Northrop Grumman Corp., six of the nation's largest federal prime contractors have formed a team to pursue the Homeland Security Department's upcoming $2 billion Secure Border Initiative Network contract.
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font color> RTI International has subcontracted with 22 states and territories to evaluate existing privacy laws and their effect on data exchange as part of federal health IT efforts.
NewVectors LLC won a contract that extends and expands the scope of the company's efforts in support of the Defense Department's Business Transformation Agency.
Harris Corp. won a one-year, $10 million contract to do the preliminary design for the secure wireless transmission system architecture of the Army's Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program.
ManTech International Corp. won a $10 million subcontract to supply the Army Corps of Engineers with electronic security systems for domestic and overseas Army bases.
Hansen Technologies Inc. of Rancho Cordoba, Calif., won a contract from the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to install an enterprise asset management software system to help maintain both the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway.
