ACS wins protest of Army award

The General Accounting Office has taken away a contract from a San Antonio company, saying it misrepresented itself in its bid for an Army job.

Northrop Grumman nabs state benefits subcontracts

Northrop Grumman Corp. has won subcontracts to support electronic benefits transfer programs in Arkansas, Iowa and Maine.

Lawson lands contract with Seminole tribe

Lawson Software Inc. has won a contract with the Seminole Tribe of Florida to provide financials, human resources and procurement software suites to manage its government operations.

Viisage wins deal for face recognition technology

Viisage Technology Inc. has won a State Department contract for facial recognition technology to help cut fraud and increase border security.

Vista to aid in base closure study

Vista Technology Services Inc. has been hired by the Army to help in the base realignment and closure initiative slated to begin in 2005.

DoD awards risk management contract

Digital Sandbox Inc. won a sole source contract from the Defense Department and the Naval Warfare Systems Command to provide risk management software to governments.

ManTech to consolidate network for Marshals Service

ManTech International Corp. has won a one-year, $5.1 million contract to implement the portion of a departmentwide consolidated network project for federal marshals.

ACS gets contract extension from Calif. county

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. won a three-year extension of its information technology outsourcing services contract, valued at nearly $14 million, with Solano County, Calif.

Northrop Grumman software to design AF rocket engines

Northrop Grumman Corp. won an Air Force contract to develop software tools for designing a new upper-stage rocket engine.

Flak over offshore outsourcing swells

State and local governments will continue their full-scale retreat from offshore outsourcing this year to avoid the political backlash that often accompanies the loss of government jobs to overseas sites, industry and government officials said.

Vendors face performance, small-biz goals on Alliant

Get it right or get out -- that's the message to vendors from GSA's Federal Technology Service on the upcoming $150 billion Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract.

EMC to provide storage and solutions to the Pentagon

EMC Corp. won a $40 million contract with the Defense Department to provide networked storage, business continuity software and open management software.

GIG-BE gains tech stethoscope

InfoVista Inc. said the Defense Information Systems Agency has chosen its Foundation 1.0 software to monitor network performance and service levels in the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion project.

Space Imaging wins Forest Service GIS work

Space Imaging Inc. will continue providing geographic information services to the U.S. Forest Service.

Raytheon nabs Iraq air traffic contract

Raytheon Co. has won a $10.5 million contract to supply air traffic management systems for airports in Iraq.

NASA plans smart-card pilot using Maximus

NASA will begin testing a smart-card program for access to facilities and information systems after awarding a contract to Maximus Inc.

Homeland Security forum to put agency needs on table

The Homeland Security Department will host a two-day conference in March to tell industry what the agency needs and requires in technology.

STG wins Air Force financial management system work

STG Inc. won a task order to provide professional services to the Air Force Financial Management Information Systems at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Wisc. re-ups Tier Technologies for benefits

Tier Technologies Inc. has won a $4.7 million contract renewal from Wisconsin to continue building the state's unemployment insurance benefits system.

ACS and Georgia to settle healthcare system dispute

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. and the Georgia Department of Community Health have tentatively settled a dispute involving a health claims processing contract.