Apptis Inc., Chantilly, Va., won more than half a dozen contracts worth a total of $85 million from the Defense Department's Military Health System for services including 24-hour production and maintenance of the agency's enterprise blade server deployment, modifications to its Hub and Rack Shared Computing Infrastructure, and exploration of concepts related to electronic health systems capabilities.
New York-based L-3 Communications Inc. in the past month has closed its all-cash, $49 million purchase of EOTech Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., and acquired Applied Signal and Image Technology Inc. of Linthicum, Md.
Look out ? with budgets recovering from years of hardship, and delayed projects getting back on track, the state and local government finance and administration market is expected to generate some substantial heat in 2006.
The Office of Personnel Management hopes its new IT workforce swap will yield an unprecedented level of information sharing, as well as provide private IT experts with a unique glimpse into the federal space and vice versa.
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.
L-3 Communications Inc. acquired Applied Signal and Image Technology Inc., a provider of research, engineering and production of signal processing systems.
Following yesterday's confession by Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) of taking bribes and evading taxes, attention also is being focused on Cunningham's relationship with former Washington defense contractor MZM Inc. and its president, Mitchell Wade.
The Defense Department is conducting research on commercially available technology products for a telepharmacy application for its Military Health System.
The Defense Department is expected to release as early as today the request for proposals for converting its legacy systems to the Network Centric Enterprise Services program.
