The Defense Information Systems Agency today issued a request for proposals for the $300 million, Joint Hawaii Information Transfer Service contract for telecommunications services.
CACI International Inc. won a three-year, $73 million prime contract to provide program management and technical services to support the Naval Aviation Enterprise and the Naval Aviation Readiness Integrated Improvement Program.
Maj. Gen. Dennis Moran said Army IT budgetary dollars in 2006 would be closely linked to how well a program's requirements are defined and whether the program is being built to service the whole enterprise.
Four companies will share an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide engineering and technical services to the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center.
Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems was awarded the Common Link Integration Processing contract to develop common software and common-link processing for a joint Navy-Air Force program.
Serco has provided job preparation services for servicemen and women, their families and civilian Army personnel for 15 years, and recently won a recompete for a $48 million contract to continue performing the services.
The Defense Department is trying to use its latest round of recommended base closures and realignments to consolidate operations and support Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's transformation goals.
By federal standards, a $38 million price tag for a computer networking project is relatively small. But the Homeland Security Department's plan to expand information networks at its operations center next year could bring a substantial payoff to contractors down the road.
Harris Corp. won a $6.6 million research and development contract from the Army Communications-Electronics Command to develop and demonstrate the Jigsaw Laser Radar 3D-imaging test-bed system for use on an unmanned aerial vehicle.
EFJ Inc.'s subsidiary, EF Johnson, received an order from the Defense Department for $6.4 million worth of Project 25-compliant portable and mobile radios and accessories.
Lockheed Martin Corp. is part of a joint venture awarded a $3.4 billion contract to design and develop the Medium Extended Air Defense System for the U.S., Germany and Italy.
The company has won a $39.4 million contract from the Air Force to support the military's next generation of joint and coalition network management systems.
The Navy has awarded more than 500 contracts under the SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) contract vehicle for a hodgepodge of support services for weapons systems acquisition.
The House of Representatives authorized $10.6 million to speed up corporate applications under the Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act.
New U.S. passports with radio-frequency identification tags will be protected by a physical barrier, protections on the equipment used to read the tags and possibly encryption technology.
