Northrop Grumman wins joint tactical network deal

The company has won a $39.4 million contract from the Air Force to support the military's next generation of joint and coalition network management systems.

SGI servers chosen for NASA environmental data work

A project to upgrade the computing and data management capabilities at the Goddard Space Flight Center includes servers from Silicon Graphics Inc.

Navy re-ups CACI for electronic defense work

CACI International Inc. has won a four-year contract renewal from the Navy to continue providing electronic defense system support.

Winter Olympics IT infrastructure work begins

A consortium of global IT companies are developing sports-related applications in preparation for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Navy awards hundreds of contracts for SeaPort-e initiative

The Navy has awarded more than 500 contracts under the SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) contract vehicle for a hodgepodge of support services for weapons systems acquisition.

Mutlimax wins support work for Army Corps of Engineers

The company will provide information technology support services for the Directorate of Public Works in Fort Lewis, Wash.

Cogent Systems wins Haiti election fingerprint work

Cogent Systems Inc. has won a $2.5 million contract from the Organization of American States to provide an automated fingerprinting solution.

DOD re-ups with ICF's Synergy division

ICF Consulting's Synergy division won a $9.4 million contract with the Defense Contract Management Agency to provide software development services

Northrop backs away from Los Alamos work

Northrop Grumman Corp. has dropped out of the running for the multibillion-dollar federal contract to operate Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Raytheon tapped for mission system work on DD(X) destroyers

Raytheon Co. won a $3 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to continue designing mission systems for a new class of destroyers.

Treasury pulls $1 billion TCE contract

Treasury notified the Government Accountability Office in a letter May 20 that it intended to terminate the Treasury Communications Enterprise contract with AT&T.

L.A. County re-ups CGI-AMS for ERP work

CGI-AMS has won a five-year, $33 million contract renewal from Los Angeles County to continue providing enterprise resource planning software and services

Horizon wins DLA food-service management contract

Horizon Software has been awarded a $48 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide food-service management software to the dining facilities of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

Lockheed tapped for next phase of antenna development

Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $19.5 million contract from DARPA to continue developing new space-based radar antenna technology.

M/A-Com wins two Army mobile radio deals

M/A-Com Inc. has won contracts totaling $3.6 million to provide radio communications systems for Fort Sill the U.S. Military Academy.

AT&T re-ups Marine testing lab

AT&T Government Solutions won a one-year, $1 million task order to continue operating the U.S. Marine testing lab responsible for transitioning legacy and emerging software applications to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.

Alien makes another RFID acquisition

Alien Technology Corp. has acquired Quatrotec Inc., a provider of solutions and project management to the air transportation industry.

Inside track

The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command in Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is looking for a system that can tag people who move or disturb material without authorization. The system should mark individuals in a way undetectable to casual inspection but observable through enhanced vision technology, ultraviolet light and other detection gear.

Inside track

The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command in Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is looking for a system that can tag people who move or disturb material without authorization. The system should mark individuals in a way undetectable to casual inspection but observable through enhanced vision technology, ultraviolet light and other detection gear.

Buylines: On Acquisition Training: An Important Next Step

Over the last decade, we have seen a gradual elevation of the acquisition profession's stature in civilian agencies. The latest development is an important new policy memo from Federal Procurement Policy Administrator David Safavian that, among other things, directs the establishment of education and certification requirements for civilian agency acquisition professionals. Safavian's initiative is probably the most significant and challenging step yet taken in this process.