Rebuilding Iraq is under way. The most ambitious nation-building program since the Marshall Plan in 1945, this effort will involve about $75 billion in expenditures. Much of the effort will focus on updating the country's technology infrastructure, and most of this money will be spent on contracts issued to the private sector.
The Army Space and Missile Defense Command will recompete the multiple award contract for Space and Missile Defense Initiatives Support. Task areas include vision statements and doctrine, developing architectures and providing program support, such as modeling and simulation, system analysis and integration, prototype development and analyzing emerging technologies analysis.
Gerrit le Grand, 61, has supported the U.S. military throughout his career. The business development manager for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Carson, Calif., made several trips to Kuwait in 2002 and 2003.
EDO Corp. will provide electronic support measures systems to frigates in the Greek Navy under a four-year, $10 million contract, the company announced today.
For NASA, it could be Sputnik all over again. China's successful launch of a manned spacecraft in October will help boost NASA's information technology budget during the next five years, according to a new report released by the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association.
Anteon Corp. has won a $107 million contract from the Navy to provide engineering and technical support for anti-submarine warfare and mine warfare systems.
Francis Joseph Harvey, a Maryland technology company executive, has been nominated to replace Defense Department CIO John Stenbit, who plans to retire.
The aerospace controls division of BAE Systems plc, Farnborough, U.K., has introduced a new version of its real-time operating system for use in aircraft, called CsLEOS (originally called the Control Systems Layered Embedded Operating System). This fault-tolerant operating system now provides support for graphical user interfaces. It also adheres to the DO-178B standards set by the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics to qualify flight critical software.
Integrators see expanding opportunities as the Pentagon compiles its wish-list of new technologies, including software and systems that can improve intelligence gathering, speed information to troops in the field and generate greater bandwidth.
Government IT contractors are pressing Congress to drop "Buy American" provisions in the defense budget bill that would severely limit the Defense Department's ability to purchase products and systems that contain foreign-made software and components.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting proposals for the advanced decision environment technology program, which will develop and demonstrate technologies for global information and knowledge sharing. It also will provide decision-makers with analysis and simulation tools for tactical and strategic planning and operations, and enable advanced command and control.
The Army has issued a request for information for equipment and subsystems to support command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements of its next generation theater support vessel.
Systems integrator Dynamics Research Corp. faces civil fines of up to $30 million under a government lawsuit charging that the company failed to properly supervise two employees who defrauded the government on contracts at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts.
The Defense Department's efforts to improve logistics by increasing asset visibility paid off in Iraq. Although the supply lines were attenuated, they did not fail the troops at the front line, said Joseph Kampf, president and chief executive officer of Anteon International Corp., Fairfax, Va.
As the military's weapons and information systems become increasingly complex, integrators that build these systems have discovered they need project management tools equally complex and advanced.
For Northrop Grumman Corp., Los Angeles, Operation Iraqi Freedom provided an opportunity to deploy its Theatre Medical Information Program, a framework for moving patient data around different echelons of the Army.
