ManTech International Corp. will acquire contracts from Affiliated Computer Services Inc. that support the Air Force Electronic Systems Center's Information Technology Services program, ManTech announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The Share-in-Savings Program Office at the General Services Administration has developed two tools to evaluate projects for use with share-in-savings contracting, said Ken Buck, director of the office.
Share-in-savings contracts are appropriate for several types of IT work, industry and government officials said, including system or infrastructure consolidation and revenue collection.
Lockheed Martin Corp. today asked a federal court to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from transitioning a disputed contract to EDS Corp.
Technical and Management Services Corp. won a contract worth up to $51.9 million to support the Coalition Provisional Authority, the temporary governing body of Iraq.
President Bush's lower-than-expected request for technology spending in 2005 has put contractors on notice that the government market will become even more competitive in the months ahead. The president's $59.8 billion budget request for information technology is up just $671 million from his request of $59.1 billion for 2004, a 1 percent increase. The White House released the fiscal 2005 request Feb. 2.
The issue of "offshoring" ? moving work from the United States to lower-cost locations overseas ? is taking off. Presidential candidates are talking about it; Congress has taken small steps toward banning it on federal contracts; and analysts of all stripes have weighed in with their perspectives.
Federal procurement officials are poised to issue new guidelines that could give share-in-savings contracting the boost it needs for wider use in the federal government.
A subsidiary of San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. won a contract to develop a prototype system that will protect military networks from malicious software, such as the recent MyDoom worm.
When the administration proposed consolidating numerous agencies into a Department of Homeland Security, proponents of procurement deregulation took advantage of the opportunity to advance their agenda in the name of speedy protection of lives and property from terrorist attack.
NCI Information Systems Inc. of Reston, Va., won a three-year, $4.3 million contract from the Air Force for aircraft maintenance intuitive troubleshooting, company officials announced today.
Harris Corp. has won a $12 million contract from the Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command for shipboard, high-frequency radio communications systems, the company announced today. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a ceiling of $41 million.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a contract from the Western Australia Police Service for a variety of computer hardware, application and network management services.
