The sound of gunfire, blinding smoke and the overall confusion that pervade a battlefield are all real. But instead of lethal bullets, eye-safe lasers loaded with data are the ammunition that the Marine Corps uses for tactical training exercises.
Unisys Corp. weathered a rocky couple of days in mid-October ? a news leak of a federal audit with allegations of overbilling on a major Homeland Security Department contract was followed the next day by a 19 percent drop in its stock price.
When they're not building missiles and fighter jets for the government, Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will be making weather forecasting a little easier.
The contracting community should prepare itself for new rules that could significantly affect payment for work done by subcontractors under time-and-materials or labor-hour contracts.
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants vendors to offer follow-on support for its Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval System, called Edgar.
The new award is a follow-on to a 1999 contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency under which Computer Sciences Corp. provides training, consultation and analytical support services as the National Flood Insurance Program's bureau and statistical agent.
Nevada's Clark County hopes to improve the way it manages information related to court cases with a new automated case management system from Tyler Technologies Inc.
Constella Group LLC won a five-year, $21 million contract from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to provide statistical and computer support to the National Toxicology Program.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy hopes to follow the General Services Administration's lead in reviewing and consolidating repetitive governmentwide acquisition contracts.
AT&T Government Solutions underscored its commitment to small-business partnering when it tapped 30 such companies for its team chasing the gargantuan Networx telecommunications contracts.
McDonald Bradley Inc. will create a global data architecture that will support the sharing of intelligence information across the intelligence organizations within the Defense Department.
SiloSmashers Inc. has won a pair of contracts from the Interior Department totaling $9.7 million to help merge two previously separate federal acquisition centers into a single procurement organization.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has enlisted the company to hasten the delivery and analysis of critical, time-sensitive imagery to military, homeland security and commercial transportation officials.
BearingPoint International Inc. won a three-year, $45 million contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to help strengthen the Islamic republic's private sector through economic restructuring.
The Tennessee Human Services Department is seeking electronic benefit transfer services for food stamps and the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families programs.
CACI International Inc. has won a three-year, $8 million contract to supply technical and business consulting services to the Commander of Navy Installations.
The National Archives and Records Administration is looking for industry input in the development of software components for a records management system that the agency hopes will standardize how the government maintains official records.
When they're not building missiles and fighter jets for the government, Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will be making weather forecasting a little easier.
