GSA schedule spending dips, poor equipment sales to blame

Federal IT spending through the General Services Administration's multiple award schedule contracts for products and services declined in 2005 for the first time in 10 years, according to a new report issued by Input Inc.

Ciber takes Denver regional transportation ERP deal

Ciber Inc. won a three-year, $13 million software and services contract from Denver's Regional Transportation District.

Patriot Technologies wins DOD enterprise deal for IA software

Patriot Technologies Inc. and the Defense Department have signed an enterprise software agreement that offers military agencies discounted pricing on the company's information assurance products and services.

S.C. county taps Manatron for appraisal software

Manatron Inc. won a five-year contract from Horry County, S.C. to provide mass appraisal software and various integration services.

Robbins-Gioia wins Customs tech support deal

Robbins-Gioia LLC won a five-year, $112.5 million blanket purchase agreement from Customs and Border Protection to provide support for the agency's Office of Information Technology.

DHS seeks budget boost for border control, immigration enforcement

Secretary Michael Chertoff is expected today to ask for a 7 percent budget increase for the Homeland Security Department for fiscal 2007, raising the department's funding to $35.6 billion, according to budget documents to be released today.

NCI nabs Army software management deal

NCI Inc. won a task order contract to support the Network Enterprise Technology Command in improving delivery of Army and Defense Department-licensed software to Army IT organizations.

Unisys lands NASA flight simulation work

Unisys Corp. won a five-year, $49.2 contract for simulation and flight IT services with NASA.

Albion nets Tennessee human-services deal

Albion won a contract from the Tennessee Department of Human Services to install an automated support for a range of human-services programs.

Monster wins Indiana online job search and recruitment deal

Monster Government Solutions won a $2.8 million contract from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development to build a statewide online job search and recruitment system.

G&B Solutions nets Treasury IV&V work

G&B Solutions Inc. has won a $15 million contract from the Treasury Department to furnish independent verification and validation support services to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

FAA re-ups Tetra Tech for satellite navigation work

Tetra Tech Inc. won a contract renewal from the Federal Aviation Administration to provide global positioning system technology that allows for denser civilian air travel and enhances the integrity of navigation information.

Communications International nabs Mass. radio system deal

Communications International Inc. won a contract from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to continue building and testing a new interoperable radio communications system.

Lockheed Martin wins second Air Force communications deal

In less than a week, defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. has captured two huge deals for satellite communications from the Air Force.

Military Sealift Command taps SRA for support work

SRA International Inc. won a $108.5 million contract from the Navy's Military Sealift Command for a wide range of IT support services.

Lockheed Martin lands space-based communications project

Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a 10-year, $2.1 billion contract from the Air Force to provide information technology support for its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Mission Operations System contract.

SI International wins visa program support deal

SI International Inc. won a contract from the State Department to process more than 20 million immigrant visa transactions annually at the National Visa Center and Kentucky Consular Center.

AT&T wins pair of Army battlefield training contracts

AT&T Government Solutions Inc. won $15 million in follow-on work on two contracts to develop the Army's next generation of live battlefield training systems.

ManTech lands Army network intrusion tech support deal

ManTech International Corp. won a five-year, $3.8 million contract from the Army to provide technical and analytical support to felony criminal investigations related to intrusions of Army networks.

Army taps General Dynamics for network infrastructure

General Dynamics Corp. won a task order contract from the Army to modernize the communications and data network infrastructure at Fort Bliss, Texas.