Dynamics Research Corp. has won a $7.9 million contract from the Air Force Air Mobility Command to continue helping the command improve its air mobility operations worldwide by re-engineering key operations and procedures.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is requiring civilian government contractors to use a new online reporting system for tracking federal subcontracting goals.
BearingPoint Inc. has won a contract to assist the Air Force Materiel Command with the ongoing modernization of its purchasing and supply chain management program.
The Boeing Co. has turned to Harris Corp. for a helping hand with the ground processing portion of its GOES-R Satellite Ground Segment contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The IRS has awarded Total Information Processing Support Services-3 contracts to 21 vendors. The contracts are valued at up to $3 billion over five years.
Level 3 Communications Inc. of Broomfield, Colo., will buy Internet services provider WilTel Communications Group LLC for $370 million cash and 115 million shares stock in a deal to close in the first quarter of 2006.
The General Services Administration plans late this month to hold a public forum on its $50 billion Alliant procurement, and may issue a second set of draft requests for proposals if it makes any major changes to the program, the agency's Alliant chief said Oct. 27.
The contracting community should prepare itself for new rules that could significantly affect payment for work done by subcontractors under time-and-materials or labor-hour contracts.
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants vendors to offer follow-on support for its Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval System, called Edgar.
The expansion of the federal IT budget is expected to slow over the next five years, with the growth rate dropping below 3 percent, according to the Government Electronics and IT Association's annual forecast.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy hopes to follow the General Services Administration's lead in reviewing and consolidating repetitive governmentwide acquisition contracts.
McDonald Bradley Inc. will create a global data architecture that will support the sharing of intelligence information across the intelligence organizations within the Defense Department.
Most public federal IT service companies have reported third quarter earnings, and results have been better-than-expected earnings per share with mixed performance on revenue.
SiloSmashers Inc. has won a pair of contracts from the Interior Department totaling $9.7 million to help merge two previously separate federal acquisition centers into a single procurement organization.
