A group of security analysts who have evaluated Defense Department plans for an online voting pilot have recommended that the plan be scrapped because its security cannot be ensured. But DoD plans to move ahead anyway.
Three firms have won separate Air Force contracts, under which they will determine the requirements for a communications network for military, intelligence and space agencies.
Teams led by BAE Systems plc, Northrop Grumman Corp. and United Airlines have been chosen to design prototypes of anti-missile devices to protect commercial aircraft.
With the New Year, Defense Department contractors will be required to mark items delivered to DoD with unique identifiers such as bar codes or radio frequency ID tags. Contractors will also be required to identify the unit cost of all hardware items delivered under a contract.
EDO Corp. has won a contract from the Army Communications-Electronics Command to provide electronic force-protection equipment. The contract is worth up to $35 million, with final details to be negotiated in early 2004.
Contractors will begin taking over about 180 voice, data and video nodes at 100 bases and camps in Southwest Asia under an Army program set to begin this spring.
About a thousand troops a day in Iraq are getting a chance to call home, thanks to calling centers WorldCom Inc. has established at strategic military sites around the country.
The Navy's eBusiness Operations Office this week selected $3.8 million worth of first-round projects for fiscal 2004, ranging from software to streamline evaluation to systems to improve data accessibility.
Seven companies have won a spot on the Defense Department's Intelligence Information Systems Integration and Engineering Support Services Contract 3, called DIESCON 3. The blanket purchase agreement is slated to last up to five years.
General Dynamics Corp. has won a $36.6 million contract from the Navy to provide engineering and technical services and production for the multi-purpose processor program for submarines.
The Defense Department's fiscal 2004 IT budget is riddled with "material inconsistencies, inaccuracies or omissions that limit its reliability," said the General Accounting Office in a report to a House subcommittee. GAO found a $1.6 billion discrepancy between two key budget reports spanning 73 information technology initiatives.
Working with the Air Force, Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a new way for airborne weapons systems to swap data with ground-based communications networks and other airborne platforms.
HJ Ford, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynamics Research Corp., has won prime contracts totaling $24.6 million for advisory and assistance services to the Aeronautical Systems Center and Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
The General Accounting Office has released a study that finds theDefense Department "does not know exactly how much it is spending oncommercial satellite bandwidth services."
The Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. a multimillion contract to provide IT products and services to 15,000 users?many at or near the Pentagon.
Military satellite communications are an absolute necessity on the battlefield, where commanders need real-time access to intelligence information to guide the movements of troops and targeting of weapons.
