Pointsec Mobile Technologies Inc., a provider of security software for such devices as personal digital assistants and mobile phones, will supply its security technology for the Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care.
SRI International Inc. won a two-year, $12 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an automated medical treatment system for the battlefield that does not require onsite medical personnel.
Requests for proposals for the multibillion-dollar FTS Networx contract are delayed until May following a change of heart at the General Services Administration.
The $46.7 million contract renewal from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center is for technical services for the information warfare exploitation systems engineering division.
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $10 million contract from the United Kingdom's Defense Ministry for fire-control systems for 15 multiple-launch rocket systems.
Sprint Corp. won $16.6 million worth of prime contracts to provide data connectivity via international private lines for Defense Department facilities within Japan and between Japan and Guam.
A contract worth more than $40 million from the Saudi Arabian Public Telecommunications Co. calls for an integrated, digital-enhanced network wireless system.
The Contracts and Risk Management Department of the Port of Tacoma, Wash., wants information management software for contracts, financial, program and document management. An RFP is expected in July.
At the sentencing of former Boeing Co. executive Mike Sears, who pled guilty for his role in the Darleen Druyun case, U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty announced the formation of a new procurement-fraud task force. This is just the latest example of how ethics in government contracting has drawn the spotlight as never before.
Two years ago, Congress gave a new IT contracting vehicle a boost by including it in the E-Government Act of 2002. Share-in-savings contracts were supposed to revolutionize government IT procurements by unleashing contractor creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.
The State Department and the Government Printing Office in the next few weeks will decide which and how many companies will provide electronic passports for U.S. citizens.
The Government Accountability Office has thwarted a $1 billion Treasury Department award to AT&T Corp. after it learned that agency had entered into an agreement that encouraged it to let the contract expire early.
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED</font color> The Government Accountability Office has sustained protests filed by three companies against the Treasury Department's award of the $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract to AT&T.
