DHS eyes outsourcing intelligence

The Homeland Security Department might seek a private vendor to provide intelligence research and operations specialists for its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

NSF awards new grants

Two research centers that will apply life sciences techniques to Internet security are among 33 new projects the National Science Foundation will fund in its latest round of grants in the Cyber Trust Program.

SBA extends small biz partnership

The Defense Department will be able to award 8(a) contracts to small businesses on behalf of the Small Business Administration for an additional year.

Lockheed wins telecom battle

Lockheed Martin Corp. beat a pair of telecom giants to win the U. S. Postal Service's $3 billion contract to provide telecommunications infrastructure services.

AT&T wins Forest Service network work

AT&T Government Solutions won a two-year, $1.8 million contract to install and maintain a new high-speed backbone network for the U.S. Forest Service.

Pinkerton to overhaul DEA Web infrastructure

Pinkerton Computer Consultants Inc. has won a five-year, $6.5 million contract with the Drug Enforcement Administration to upgrade the agency's Web architecture.

DigitalNet wins security contract

DigitalNet Holdings Inc. won a $10.3 million task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide an information assurance solution.

Northrop Grumman gets automated meter-reading system contract

Northrop Grumman Corp. will automate data collection from water meters in the Hartford, Conn., area under a six-year, $2.9 million contract.

ManTech designing guidelines for health professionals network

ManTech International Corp. won a $2.4 million contract from the Health and Human Services Department to support the development of technical and policy guidelines, for a registry of health care volunteers.

Anteon to support anti-terrorism networks

Anteon International Corp. won a five-year $150 million contract from the Army to provide specialized information technology services for two multinational computer networks that support forces combating terrorism.

Lockheed Martin wins $3 billion telecom contract

Lockheed Martin Corp. beat a pair of telecom giants to win the Postal Service's $3 billion contract for its telecommunications infrastructure.

Delaware taps ACS for integrated justice system

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has won a $12.5 million contract from the Delaware Administrative Office of the Courts to provide an integrated justice information management system.

Anteon wins $120M Navy warfare systems support contract

Anteon International Corp. won a five-year, $120 million contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command to support the Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems.

NMCI chief promises 'a different animal'

EDS Corp. and the Navy yesterday signed two contract modifications on the $8.82 billion Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program that reduce the number of service-level agreements and allow EDS to begin billing 100 percent for each seat in the huge project.

Raytheon wins AF radar work

Raytheon Co. won a five year $13 million contract from the Air Force to upgrade mobile ground radar systems for Hill Air Force Base in Utah.

Florida cancels MyFlorida Alliance outsourcing contracts

<font color="CC0000"> (UPDATED) </font color> The Florida State Office of Technology is terminating contracts with BearingPoint Inc. Accenture Ltd. which will essentially kill the state's groundbreaking outsourcing project known as the MyFlorida Alliance.

Geospatial agency ramps up remote sensing

Orbimage Inc. of Dulles, Va., won a four-year, $500 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to supply tools for gathering high-resolution images from commercial satellites.

CSC nabs medical data deal

Computer Sciences Corp. has won a five-year, $74.8 million contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide hospital data abstraction and data validation services.

Seven companies get spots on $7 billion Navy contract

The companies now will compete against each other for work under the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity five-year contract, awarded by the Naval Shipbuilding Support Office to support the Naval Sea Systems Command and Fleet-sponsored maintenance programs.

State Dept. taps Identix for biometrics work

Identix Inc. has won a one-year, $2.2 million contract from the State Department to provide a biometric solution to support the department's visa processing services, the company announced today.