Once every decade or so, a contract comes along that has the potential to remake an industry. If you win, it's a validation of your strategy as well as a confidence and financial booster for several years to come. If you lose, well, you have to make what can be painful adjustments.
New York has put stringent measures in place to ensure contractor performance on its statewide wireless network, but the winning contractor is confident it can meet the demands of the massive project.
The immense damage Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulf Coast is projected to require the largest reconstruction effort in U.S. history, and there is no doubt that government contractors will play a significant role in the effort. However, navigating through procurement rules and regulations that are rapidly changing to accommodate Katrina reconstruction may not be without risks.
General Dynamics Corp. won a three-year, $28 million contract extension to continue its work with the Army Research Laboratory's Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance.
They've spent years and millions of dollars preparing for this moment, and now the four teams chasing the federal government's largest ever telecommunications contract are ready to go head to head.
<font color="CC0000"><b>UPDATED</b></font color> BearingPoint has won a $3.3 million contract from the Navy's Program Executive Office for Information Technology to support a major IT transformation initiative, the company announced this week.
Identix Inc. has won a contract from the Sheriff's Office in Hennepin County, Minn., to expand a mobile identification network for officers in the field.
The Health and Human Services Department awards contracts to public-private groups to accelerate the adoption of health IT and the secure portability of health data.
GPO officials anticipate issuing a solicitation for a master integrator for the Future Digital Content System in December, with a contract award in February 2006.
CW Government Travel Inc. has been awarded a contract from the Education Department to provide electronic travel services and an expense management system.
BearingPoint Inc. has won a contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to help implement a broad program of economic, financial and private sector reform in Egypt.
CACI International Inc. and Science Applications International Corp. have won contracts to provide program management engineering and technical services for the Navy's Automatic Identification Technology Program Office.
DRS Technologies Inc. has won a contract to provide rugged Applique Computer Systems and peripheral equipment for the Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program.
