On the battlefield, even the best laid plans may need to be changed in an instant. A routine scouting mission can turn into a firefight, leaving a unit of soldiers low on fuel, ammunition or other supplies.
Science Applications International Corp. has tapped Alion, L-3, SRA and others to compete with it for the five-year, $250 million Joint Warfighting Center support contract scheduled for award next year.
While Pentagon officials say Internet Protocol version 6 will be essential for net-centric warfare, they are frustrated by the military's inability to use the technology.
Cubic Corp. has been awarded an $11 million subcontract from Northrop Grumman Corp. to provide the tactical common data link for a new unmanned aerial vehicle under development.
Under a $1.3 million software and services contract, the Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services will use ProSight's Portfolios software to better structure IT projects and investments.
ManTech International Corp. will provide a wide array of security services to the Air Force for its Joint Strike Fighter program under a newly awarded contract.
Dynamics Research Corp. has won $34.5 million worth of new work from the Air Force to provide advisory and assistance services to the Aeronautical Systems Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Anteon International Corp. won an $18.5 million, five-year contract with the Air Force Surgeon General to establish and operate a patient safety systems support and data analysis program at 34 Air Force sites around the globe.
In a step to help improve its ability to conduct network-centric warfare, the Army Communications-Electronics Command awarded DataPath Inc. a $42.4 million contract for custom satellite terminals and associated services.
The Air Force Family Advocacy Program has awarded DefenseWeb Technologies a new one-year, $1.3 million contract to deliver family services online to Air Force families worldwide.
MTC Technologies Inc. won a four-year task order potentially worth $49.6 million to provide technical and administrative support services to the Air Force Materiel Command.
Signal Solutions Inc., NCI Information Systems Inc. and STG Inc. have each landed Army contracts that together total more than $2.3 billion to provide omnibus IT services to the Army and other federal agencies.
The Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems has turned to NCI Inc. for assistance operating and strengthening its IT infrastructure.
The Defense Department is conducting research on commercially available technology products for a telepharmacy application for its Military Health System.
Three major systems integrators?Anteon International Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp.?have teamed with a unit of Swedish aerospace giant Saab AB, to jointly offer solutions to meet future U.S. Army simulation and training requirements.
BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., has won a $16.4 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a system that will transcribe foreign languages and computer encoded text directly into English text for military personnel.
