Defense giant Raytheon Co. won a $31.7 million contract from the Navy to build integrated combat control systems for the next five Virginia-class submarines.
MTC Technologies Inc. won a contract from the Air Force's 542nd Combat Sustainment Wing to deploy software that can assess whether components or technology used on aircraft and ground equipment are obsolete.
AT&T Government Solutions Inc. won a subcontract worth as much as $51 million to build a modern Internet protocol-based system for voice and videoconferencing for the Defense Information Systems Agency.
The Defense Interoperability Communication Exercise 2006 started last week to test communications equipment and systems for use among DOD services and agencies and with the Homeland Security Department and first responders.
Science Applications International Corp. won a four-year, $18.9 million contract for product improvements to a software simulation application for semi-automated Army forces.
The Army's chief information officer has launched four initiatives to change the structure of the service's IT environment and help accelerate some moves under the Base Realignment and Closure program.
General Dynamics Corp. won a $289 million contract from the Marine Corps to design a remote-controlled, electronic, improvised explosive device countermeasure system.
A federation that includes many IT companies has signed an agreement with the Defense Department to connect identity systems and establish an interoperable authentication network.
The $439.3 billion Defense budget, released to Congress yesterday along with the Quadrennial Defense Review, proposes a 7 percent increase over the fiscal 2006 budget.
Patriot Technologies Inc. and the Defense Department have signed an enterprise software agreement that offers military agencies discounted pricing on the company's information assurance products and services.
Information security is so vital, according to the latest Quadrennial Defense Review, that cyberattacks from abroad could result in an unspecified "overwhelming response."
NCI Inc. won a task order contract to support the Network Enterprise Technology Command in improving delivery of Army and Defense Department-licensed software to Army IT organizations.
The transformational programs that are helping the Defense Department build its Global Information Grid are being mismanaged in a stovepiped manner, with no one held accountable for results.
Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a 10-year, $2.1 billion contract from the Air Force to provide information technology support for its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Mission Operations System contract.
AT&T Government Solutions Inc. won $15 million in follow-on work on two contracts to develop the Army's next generation of live battlefield training systems.
