General Dynamics Corp. won a $1.1 million contract from the Army Corps of Engineers to design and install a nurse call system at Bassett Army Community Hospital at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.
The Virginia Department of Social Services has tapped Tier Technologies Inc. to run an outsourced call center for child support enforcement under a deal worth as much as $27.1 million.
Viisage Technology Inc. has won a contract increase from the State Department to continue producing highly secure credentials through the company's Trans Digital Technologies unit.
Anteon International Inc. won a five year, $23.1 million contract to provide platform and hands-on training and program support to the Army's Quartermaster Center and School at Fort Lee, Va.
Accenture Ltd. received a three-year, $179 million contract extension from the Education Department to continue furnishing operation and maintenance services for the system that processes disbursements for federal student aid programs.
General Dynamics Corp. won a $2.8 million contract from the Coast Guard to install emitter and detection tools on vessels engaged in law enforcement and homeland defense missions.
The National Climatic Data Center, one of the world's largest archives of weather data, will rely on STG Inc. for the next five years to operate its IT systems.
General Dynamics Network Systems and its team of more than 15 subcontractors will create and deploy a network that offers voice communication over the Internet at the Army's Pohakuloa Training Area in Hawaii.
Harris Corp. won a three-year, $27.8 million contract from Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors to develop and integrate an undersea communications system.
ManTech International Corp. won a one-year, $7.5 million contract from the Army to support development of products that fuse intelligence information for increased battlefield awareness.
Despite twice extending the award dates for its $20 billion Networx procurement, the General Services Administration now wants to significantly beat its current deadlines, as it juggles several other lucrative telecommunications and IT contracts to be awarded over the next two years.
After reviewing the fiscal 2007 budget request, as well as fiscal 2006 enacted budgets, and the strong pace of defense spending, the outlook for federal IT services firms is favorable.
Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp. and Raytheon Co. each are putting together teams to compete for the Homeland Security Department's anticipated contract to set up an integrated network of sensors and cameras along the U.S. northern and southern borders.
The Homeland Security Department's Federal Emergency Management Agency is looking to purchase software to set up donation clearinghouse IT capabilities permanently within the federal government.
Tyler Technologies Inc. has won a $4.8 million contract from the Montana Department of Revenue to install its latest personal property valuation and assessment software for use statewide.
