Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $188.2 million development contract from the Navy to design and build the first Flight 0 Littoral Combat Ship, a vessel that will use advanced information systems to improve its warfighting capability.
Northrop Grumman Corp. won a five-year $38.9 million task order to provide weather related support to the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and Naval Oceanographic Office.
Cyios Corp. has won a five-year, $84 million contract to support business requirements of the headquarters of the Army Information Management Support Center.
Cubic Corp. won a four-year $10.3 million task order from the Defense Department's Defense Threat Reduction Agency to provide technical services for the agency's transformation activities.
EDS Corp. will provide the Justice Department with electronic travel services under GSA's eTravel Service contract program, company officials have announced.
CDW-Government Inc. won purchase orders potentially worth more than $38 million to supply desktops, expandable mini-towers and mainstream notebooks to the Air Force, the company said today.
Anteon International Corp. has won a $10 million subcontract from Lockheed Martin Corp. to develop a video system for the Army to use in its urban warfare training.
CACI International Inc. won a $84.6 million contract to provide logistics and training support in automated supply management for designated Navy and Marine Corps activities.
Keane Inc. of Boston won a $9.4 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to help implement the new unique identification (UID) policy designed to counter fraud and abuse.
In November, Congress finished two tasks many thought it wouldn't: work on all appropriations bills, thus avoiding a long-term continuing resolution, and the confirmation of David Savafian as the new administrator for Federal Procurement Policy. Both are welcome turns of events.
Roughly 30 agencies are working on 45 programs that may use share-in-savings contracts, but the former head of federal procurement is trying to put the brakes on the use of the buying method.
For the past 10 years, the Federal Acquisition Regulation has required formal evaluations of contractor performance, which have become an inherent part of source selection decisions.
For Ray Oleson, chairman and chief executive of SI International Inc., the company's stellar financial performance blended with other major achievements to create "the perfect storm" that has boosted the company's stock 70 percent since mid-August.
Harris Corp., Melbourne, Fla., won a nine-year, $175 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency for maintenance and engineering services.
Rep. Tom Davis (R- Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, last week offered two suggestions for garnering greater participation from industry and government agencies in the Federal Technology Service's Networx telecommunications program:
Viisage Technology Inc., Billerica, Mass., won a contract from the National Database and Registration Authority in Pakistan to provide facial recognition technology to the nation's smart passport and national ID program. The contract value was not disclosed.
The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the Housing and Urban Affairs Department once again re-open competition for the $750 million HITS contract, which HUD twice awarded to Electronic Data Systems Corp.
