Cree work will trim power equipment aboard ships

Cree Inc. won a contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop high-power electronic devices and power modules to reduce the size and weight of power management equipment aboard Navy vessels.

CACI racks up win with naval aviation

CACI International Inc. won a three-year, $73 million prime contract to provide program management and technical services to support the Naval Aviation Enterprise and the Naval Aviation Readiness Integrated Improvement Program.

Ripon, Calif., taps Motorola for mobile network

Motorola Inc. has won a contract from the municipality for a mesh network for its citywide mobile broadband system.

Army to cast more critical eye on enterprise networking programs

Maj. Gen. Dennis Moran said Army IT budgetary dollars in 2006 would be closely linked to how well a program's requirements are defined and whether the program is being built to service the whole enterprise.

$500 million DOD contract split four ways

Four companies will share an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide engineering and technical services to the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center.

Northrop Grumman unit wins Navy CLIP contract

Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems was awarded the Common Link Integration Processing contract to develop common software and common-link processing for a joint Navy-Air Force program.

Fox: Alliant RFPs will be out in August

The request for proposal for the 10-year, $65 billion Alliant contracts for governmentwide information technology services will be issued in August, according the General Services Administration's assistant commissioner for commercial acquisitions at the agency's Federal Supply Service.

New Hampshire taps xwave for offender management

The state Department of Correction awarded xwave a $1.4 million contract for the company's CORIS statewide offender management system.

CGI-AMS wins IRS tax software deal

CGI-AMS Inc. has won a $2.7 million contract from the Internal Revenue Service to assist the agency with the first phase of its Filing and Payment Compliance initiative.

U.S. attorney vows crackdown on government contract fraud

The head of a new anti-fraud task force is promising to crack down hard on illegal contracting practices and procurement fraud in government contracting.

Slimming from 170 to one

The Homeland Security Department will consolidate more than 20 portals and 150 Web sites into one enterprise portal serving the entire agency ? just as soon as commercial software catches up with its needs.

Tech Success: FDA takes enterprise architecture medicine

Like every other federal agency, the Food and Drug Administration has been directed to improve its enterprise architecture and break down walls that isolate agency databases.

L-3 looks to build IT business with Titan acquisition

<font color="CC0000">(UPDATE) </font color> L-3 Communications' acquisition of Titan Corp. should extend L-3's prime contractor position in getting work from the federal government, says CEO Frank Lanza.

Texas town taps CompuDyne for public safety work

A unit of CompuDyne Corp. has won a $1.3 million contract from the Irving, Texas, Police Department to provide an integrated public safety and criminal-justice system.

Research grant for imaging test bed goes to Harris

Harris Corp. won a $6.6 million research and development contract from the Army Communications-Electronics Command to develop and demonstrate the Jigsaw Laser Radar 3D-imaging test-bed system for use on an unmanned aerial vehicle.

Pragmatics wins DHS deal for software testing

Pragmatics Inc. has been awarded a blanket purchasing agreement by Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection agency for software testing services.

Army picks SAIC to integrate training systems

Science Applications International Corp. won a $25.7 million contract to help the Army integrate virtual combat training systems.

AT&T unit takes on IP transition project

AT&T Government Solutions has won a contract to plan the move of the National Communications Systems' existing emergency telecommunications service onto a new Internet Protocol network.

EFJ takes on DOD radio project

EFJ Inc.'s subsidiary, EF Johnson, received an order from the Defense Department for $6.4 million worth of Project 25-compliant portable and mobile radios and accessories.

Lockheed joint venture wins missile defense project

Lockheed Martin Corp. is part of a joint venture awarded a $3.4 billion contract to design and develop the Medium Extended Air Defense System for the U.S., Germany and Italy.