Special Report: Microsoft cozies up to integrators

In the past 18 months, Microsoft has overhauled its public-sector group, added government experts and begun working with systems integrators to win contracts.

GSA jump-starts share in savings

No schedule or multiple-award contract has ever been dedicated to share in savings ? until now. The General Services Administration last month awarded blanket purchase agreements to six companies to sell share-in-savings information technology projects to 19 federal agencies.

Army picks Object Sciences team for intel support

Object Sciences Corp. won a three-year $89 million prime contract to provide support for the Army Information and Security Command.

DHS cans Spirit contract

The Homeland Security Department cancelled the five-year $5 billion Security Planning and Integrated Resources for Information Technology procurement.

Maryland county taps BearingPoint for justice system

BearingPoint Inc. has won a $3.1 million contract to provide an integrated criminal justice information system to Montgomery County, Md.

Air Force builds $490m comm infrastructure

The Air Force has hired several companies under a $490 million contract to build a communications infrastructure for deployed personnel.

StratCom taps CSC for IT support

Computer Sciences Corp. won a 10-year $525 million contract to provide information technology infrastructure support services to the U.S. Strategic Command.

Lockheed Martin to continue NASA support

Lockheed Martin Corp. won a two-year extension from NASA to work on mission operations for space shuttle and International Space Station projects.

Raytheon to supply satellite communications to submarines

Raytheon Co. won a $29.4 million contract from Electric Boat Corp. to produce new multiband satellite communication systems for new Virginia-class submarines.

NASA's 10K-processor simulator to be super

NASA intends to build a supercomputer that will include more than 10,000 Intel Itanium 2 processors and run the Linux operating system.

GSA taps five companies for contact center services

Five companies have won a five-year, $150 million contract from the General Services Administration for contact center services to help government agencies better deliver services.

Northrop wins warning system work

Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $3.1 million contract from the Army to provide a chemical-agent threat-warning system.

CACI wins $75M contract at Navy shipyards

CACI International Inc. to provide systems integration, software development and business process support for information systems at all Navy shipyards.

CSC wins NASA IT services pact

Computer Sciences Corp. won a task order to provide IT services to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center.

TCS lands Army tech support deal

Telecommunication Systems Inc. has won a five-year, $20 million contract to provide IT services and systems integration support at seven Army installations.

IBM to build Navy supercomputer

The Defense Department has tapped IBM Corp. to build a supercomputing cluster at the Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center.

GSA schedules Networx conference

Revised strategy for the Federal Technology Service Networx contract to be presented next month at an industry conference.

M/A-Com nabs Washington police radio deal

M/A-Com Inc. has won a $4.5 million contract from the Washington State Patrol for land-mobile radio communications.

FAA automates mapping with Oracle

The Federal Aviation Administration will use Oracle's 10G database and spatial system to create precise electronic maps of the skies.

Titan, SAIC grab Navy engineering contracts

The Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems command has awarded a pair of IT-related contracts that are potentially worth more than $177 million.