The defense market is heading into a hot spell, and not just because of the steamy Washington summer. Over the next several months, solicitations and awards will be issued for contracts that the Defense Department and the military will use to continue their business transformation efforts.
The Defense Department's drive to transform the way it does business and shift resources to military operations is reflected in a spate of new IT contracts the agency is expected to award in the coming months.
The push for IP equipment that can function in a multinational setting is a huge opportunity for vendors and systems integrators in the United States and abroad.
A recently released Defense Department report on technology development methodologies advocates more use of open-source software and suggests ways it can be incorporated into the procurement cycle.
CACI International Inc. won a $32 million contract to help the Air Force integrate its environmental, safety and occupational health management information systems into one IT system.
Verizon Communications Inc. won a one-year, $7.4 million contract extension from the Defense Information Systems Agency to supply bandwidth manager services to the agency's Defense Information Systems Network.
With the hope of being able to form networks free of fixed infrastructure, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded an 18-month contract worth $7.8 million to BAE Systems Inc.
The Defense Department earlier this week resumed taking applications from contractors for all types of personnel security-clearance investigations, after it had suspended processing for almost two and a half months.
General Dynamics Corp. will upgrade the Army's communications and data network infrastructure at Fort Hood, Texas, through a two-year contract worth $23 million.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has filed a protest against the Army Corps of Engineers for awarding a six-year, $447 million A-76 outsourcing contract to a public-private partnership led by corps employees in conjunction with Lockheed Martin Corp.
IBM Corp. has been hired by the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide collaboration services under the Net-Centric Enterprise Services program.
Large and more numerous contract awards continue to keep the Pentagon vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse, according to a Government Accountability Office review of contract management at the Defense Department recently forwarded to Congress.
The Task Force to Support Improved DOD Contracting and Stability Operations in Iraq will evaluate Defense business enterprise processes and systems in Iraq affecting contracting and other processes.
BBN Technologies won a $5.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the first phase of the Integrated Learning Program, an artificial intelligence project.
Over the years, the Army Knowledge Online portal has evolved into what military leaders envisioned it would become: a single point where warfighters and their support networks could log in and access applications and services. But it had a serious flaw.
