AT&T Government Solutions won a $61.3 million contract from the National Communications System to provide priority calling services for government and industry officials during emergencies.
Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $101 million follow-on contract to provide information systems integration for the Army's Personnel Electronic Records Management System program.
EDS Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. filed separate protests this week in their continued battle over the Housing and Urban Development Department's IT Services contract.
The National Institutes of Health will upgrade its research grants application and processing system to an object-oriented architecture using Java 2 Enterprise Edition.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a $406 million contract from the Army Aviation and Missile Command to provide comprehensive support services to countries operating UH-1 and AH-1 helicopters.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has contracted with Accenture Ltd. to continue development and maintenance services for an Integrated Financial Management Program.
AT&T Government Solutions has won two five-year professional services contracts totaling $13.3 million to help the Navy manage its worldwide construction assets.
Identix Inc. has won a purchase order from the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association to provide facial recognition technologies to state law enforcement agencies.
NASA rebids the contract in an effort to streamline its service operations by selecting separate providers for satellite, terrestrial and technical support.
As states rebound from three straight years of budget shortfalls, systems integrators are showing remarkable creativity in helping states stretch scarce dollars. Many are signing contracts that require less upfront funding by customers, and that generate additional revenue for the state. Although these approaches are not necessarily new, the demand for them is strong and growing.
It is often said that good people don't need laws to tell them how to act responsibly, while bad people always look for ways around the law. While we can establish norms of conduct, we cannot legislate behavior.
The Professional Services Council asked the Office of Management and Budget to clarify which agency personnel have authority to contest an award under a standard public-private competition under Circular A-76.
The departments of Defense and Homeland Security are preparing four new communications and network projects that will generate billions of dollars in business for IT, wireless and telecom companies.
The Federal Acquisition Regulations councils raised the micropurchase and simplified acquisition thresholds for agencies dealing with potential nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological attacks. The changes were made in an interim rule published Feb. 23 in the Federal Register. The rule takes effect immediately. Comments on the rule are due April 23 via e-mail to 022@gsa.gov.
The Army Corps of Engineers is looking for a developer of Web-based tools to make better use of its geo-information system data. The tools will help in identifying and classifying roads and trails on military installations and modeling their impact on sedimentation within watersheds.
ESRI of Redlands, Calif., last month became the first vendor to sign on to SmartBuy, the federal government's enterprisewide software licensing initiative, following nine months of hard work by the company and federal agencies to create the agreement.
Standardized procedures to respond to national, regional and local emergencies may soon be the rule for all levels of government, according to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
