Fourteen win NAVAIR financial system contract

Fourteen large and small contractors won a five-year, $135 million multiple award contract to provide business and financial management support services for the Naval Air Systems Command.

Northrop takes on Air Force targeting job

A $48 million contract from the Air Force allows the company to continue work on the Target Exploitation Development and Support program.

Army awards $209M in contracts to support intelligence command

Four companies will vie for work under a $209 million support deal for the Army Intelligence and Security Command.

Harris Corp. wins satellite antenna subcontract

Harris Corp. has won a $37 million subcontract from Lockheed Martin Corp. to provide unfurlable mesh reflectors for some Defense Department satellites.

AF training system sought

The Air Force Special Operations Command wants information about commercial equipment for its Man Portable Air Defense training system. The system will incorporate missile warning system simulation and visual cueing.

Smart buoys under development

Information Systems Laboratories won a three-year contract worth $13 million to develop and supply tactical air deployable buoys for the Navy, company officials said.

InfoReliance streamlines Marines personnel system

Stacks of paper, hand-written notes and days of computer down time were all a part of the Marine Corps' old system of assigning and moving personnel from duty to duty.

Marines award dunker training contract

The Marine Corps awarded a $35.8 million, five-year contract to American Systems Corp., Chantilly, Va., to train pilots to escape from aircraft and amphibious vehicles that crash into the ocean.

DARPA needs tech-savvy research

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued a broad agency announcement seeking research, development, design and testing proposals to be undertaken by the agency's Advanced Technology Office.

Air Force looks online

The Air Force Research Laboratory wants to build a modular data network that can integrate everything from tactical unmanned aerial vehicles to ground forces.

Tribal firms capitalize on advantages

In 2005, Catapult Technology Ltd. will see its work with the Transportation Department plummet from $4.8 million to practically zero.

Order from Chaos

Designed to have thousands of systems run on it, the Defense Department's new enterprise architecture will usher in what some people are calling the biggest IT transition ever done.

DOD support office awards IT security and services work

Telos Corp. won a three-year contract for IT security compliance and risk management services to Washington Headquarters Services, company officials said.

Cubic to build next-generation weapons trainer

Cubic Corp. won a $113 million contract for the Army's training system that will let soldiers use actual weapons during combat exercises.

Lockheed wins Canadian health work

Lockheed Martin Corp. won the second phase of a multiyear contract to provide an integrated, electronic health management system for the Canadian Department of National Defence.

Comtech Telecommunications wins Army mobile data deal

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has won a $6.7 million contract to provide mobile data communications services to support the Army's Blue Force Tracking initiative.

BAE lands Navy countermeasure work

BAE Systems Inc. won follow-on contracts totaling $12 million to maintain and upgrade infrared countermeasure systems for the Marine Corps and Navy.

Army awards contract for digital signatures

Silanis Technology Inc. will provide the Army with an enterprise license for its digital signature and approval management solution.

Air Force seeks new networking capabilities

The Air Force Research Laboratory wants to build a modular data network that can integrate everything from tactical unmanned aerial vehicles to ground forces.

DRS outfits armored vehicles

DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received about $36 million worth of orders to provide its Applique Computer Systems for the Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program.