Persistence usually garners few headlines, positive or otherwise. For EDS Corp., dogged by disputes over compensation and performance six years into its largest federal contract, staying the course managed to generate favorable reaction as one year led into another.
Frank Lanza paints a grim picture of the world. A resolution to the war in Iraq is uncertain. Congress and the White House can't agree. The United States' roster of allies has shrunk. His list goes on and on.
As the Federal Aviation Administration continues working to replace and upgrade the nation's air traffic control system, working beside the agency, developing the technology powering the effort, is Raytheon Co.
Computer Sciences Corp.'s solid slate of lucrative, long-term, federal IT contracts is among the lures for potential buyers of the integrator. The company has been courted in recent months by an array of suitors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., Lockheed Martin Corp. and a number of private equity firms, and has retained Goldman Sachs to explore its potential sale.
Prosperity loves company. That may be one way to characterize the proposed acquisition of Anteon International Corp. by General Dynamics Corp. Or maybe prosperity just loves more prosperity. Whatever the description, if the Justice Department OKs the $2.2 billion sale, the deal will marry two powerhouses on the Top 100 list.
Science Applications International Corp. began a seismic shift in 2005 when it moved from its status as an employee-owned company to a publicly traded one.
Having posted $5.5 billion in prime IT contracting revenue in 2005, Northrop Grumman Corp. is eager to maintain that momentum in the years ahead by expanding its work in areas such as health care IT, outsourcing and wireless solutions, to name a few, said James O'Neill, corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman Information Technology of McLean, Va.
Lockheed Martin Corp. wants to be known as more than just one of the world's largest defense contractors. In addition to making fighter jets and missiles, the company is expanding its IT business into new markets in anticipation of growing demand for sophisticated IT systems.
The House of Representatives will consider an amendment this evening to the Defense Authorization Bill that would restart processing on security clearance applications for government contractors, a House Committee on Government Reform spokesman said.
The second time around might be the charm for Logistics Applications Inc., which has had to wait more than a year to take over its largest contract win ever.
The Homeland Security Department is enlisting the help of a non-profit organization to obtain cybersecurity tools for operating systems, servers and databases used by the federal government.
Lockheed Martin Corp. announced it has been awarded a five-year, $120 million contract to run two call centers for the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau.
Personnel in the military services and agencies, as well as representatives from industry and academia, will receive invitations next week to participate in one of two teams that will ultimately make suggestions on overhauling the certification and accreditation processes across the intelligence community.
AT&T Government Solutions Inc. won a five-year, $11.8 million contract to provide operations and maintenance support for a Web-based system for forecasting and tracking Army personnel.
Harris Corp. has won a two-year, $10 million subcontract from Lockheed Martin Corp. to provide a weapon data-link transceiver for the extended range Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile.
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font color> Silicon Graphics Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and penned an agreement with its lenders to reduce the company's debt by about $250 million, SGI officials said.
Raytheon Co. has won a contract worth up to $368 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for high-performance computing resources to support advances in NOAA's environmental modeling capabilities.
