From the moment fighting began in Iraq, U.S. military leaders were coolly assessing the performance of their own technology, tactics, weapons and forces. The Pentagon, in fact, had embedded an elite team of 35 joint staff officers with U.S. troops to observe operations and compile lessons learned for future wars.
General Dynamics Corp. tapped Gerard DeMuro as executive vice president of the Information Systems and Technology group. He replaces Kenneth Dahlberg, who is leaving to become chief executive officer of Science Applications International Corp.
The Defense Department's push to transform the military by providing them with interoperable, digital systems will continue to offer business opportunities to firms focused on the agency's research, development, test and evaluation market, according to a new analysis.
The exchange of information between the Defense and Homeland Security departments is essential to national security, but the departments still are struggling to share information within their organizations, government officials said Oct. 22 at the Federal Information Assurance Conference at the University of Maryland in College Park.
The General Services Administration's next-generation long-distance contract, called Networx, is being designed with two major components: one to offer opportunities for large telecommunications companies, and the other to give integrators, wireless companies, small businesses and other networking companies a piece of the action.
The push to transform the armed services by providing them with interoperable, digital systems will continue to offer business opportunities, according to new analysis.
A team led by Raytheon Co. will build a network that integrates multiple intelligence systems into a single, worldwide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system.
A team led by Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, won a contract worth up to $139 million to support the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center.
Northrop Grumman Corp.'s win of the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System contract may open the door to more military human resource system work for the company.
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s planned purchase of Titan Corp. for $2.4 billion, the company's second major deal in less than two months, has turned up the heat in an already hot mergers and acquisition market.
A subsidiary of Schneider Electric SA, Rueil-Malmaison, France, won a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract worth up to $200 million to install and maintain automated building control systems for federal agencies, the company announced this month.
MTC Technologies Inc. will provide engineering, logistics and program support for the Army under a contract worth up to $25 million over eight and a half years, officials of the Dayton, Ohio-based company announced today.
Anteon International Corp. has won a three-year, $30.9 million contract to support the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, 9th Army Signal Command's 160th Signal Brigade.
Raytheon Co. has won a $4 million contract to continue developing technology for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Next Generation Wireless Communications program, the company announced this week.
Lockheed Martin Corp. announced Monday an agreement to acquire Titan Corp. for approximately $2.4 billion, a move that will strengthen its position in defense and intelligence technologies.
By 2010, the Defense Department will use biometrics in its classified and unclassified systems to improve physical and cybersecurity, according to a memorandum released by the agency's Biometrics Management Office.
