Defense Department officials are looking for new technologies, especially collaboration tools and advanced sensors, to support special operations around the world.
The Air Force this month revealed part of its plan for the multibillion-dollar Network Centric Solutions program at the Air Force IT Conference in Montgomery, Ala.
BAE Systems North America Inc. of Rockville, Md., and Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles each won $45 million contracts from the Homeland Security Department to develop and test prototype systems for protecting commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.
Taking a major step toward the Defense Department goal of departmentwide network-centric operations, the Air Force awarded a 10-year, $213 million contract to upgrade its Strategic Command's Strategic War Planning System to Lockheed Martin Corp.
The Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. recently won contracts totaling $105 million and the chance to battle it out in the presystem development and demonstration phase of the Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System.
NCI Information Systems Inc. won a five-year $61.1 million task order from the Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation for a range of IT support services.
Tessada and Associates Inc. has won a contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to support the Corpus Christi Army Depot, one of the Army's largest aviation repair facilities.
Hicks and Associates Inc., a Science Applications International Corp.-owned company, has won a 23-month, $4.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to provide design and demonstration services, the company announced today.
First phase called for developing the software architecture that would integrate several legacy analytical applications and allow better collaboration across war-planning network.
The Defense Department has issued guidance on choosing subcontractors for subsystems and components of major programs, seeking to ensure that systems integrators are not biased when deciding whether to work with a sister division or an unaffiliated company.
BEA Systems North America Inc. and Northrop Grumman Corp. have received contracts to develop and test prototype systems for protecting commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.
The Army awarded a 20-month, $33 million contract to a team of four companies to expand the battlefield situational awareness technology that is used by the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq.
The Defense Department is deploying a pair of 256-processor Linux clusters from Bluffdale, Utah-based Linux Networx Inc. to simulate combat operations on a virtual battlefield, the company said today.
General Dynamics Corp. won a $25 million delivery order from the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., to produce joint biological point detection systems.
Federal agencies are making little progress on mandates to certify and accredit their information systems, and the poor showing is causing some lawmakers and IT security experts to be leery of agencies' efforts to secure federal IT systems.
