The Army Desktop and Mobile Computing 2 program will consist of multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts that will run for a three-year base period, with three two-year options.
The Government Accountability Office for the second time rules in favor of Spherix Inc. in the vendor's protest of the Agriculture Department's award of its recreation information and reservation service contract to ReserveAmerica.
Juniper Networks Inc. has acquired Acorn Packet Solutions Inc. in a deal that will enable the IP network company to enhance its service offerings to federal customers.
Constella Group LLC has won a contract worth $25 million over five years to provide IT support services for a central data repository that stores information about substance-abuse prevention programs and for related initiatives.
Anteon International Corp. this week won one contract worth $29.8 million from the Interior Department and another worth $13.7 million from the Health and Human Services Department.
Cisco Systems Inc. has launched an IP-based communications platform that the company says will tie together disparate radio systems in order to achieve interoperability for first responders and other government users.
George W. Foresman, Virginia's assistant to the governor for commonwealth preparedness, has been nominated by President Bush to be the Homeland Security Department's undersecretary for preparedness.
The Secret Service is falling short in its efforts to protect sensitive online data about its operations and in securing its IT networks, according to two new reports from Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard L. Skinner.
Perot Systems Corp. has been awarded a nine-month contract from the Education Department to build a data warehouse and develop a business intelligence solution.
First responders would have more radio spectrum in the 700 megahertz band under legislation approved Oct. 20 by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee as part of the fiscal 2006 fiscal budget resolution.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a $49.9 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to provide systems engineering to users of technologies for secure messaging systems.
ManTech International Corp. has won a five-year, $34.9 million contract from the Naval Sea System Command to help design and develop military products for the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Indian Head Division.
Gateway Inc. has received more than $20 million in new federal contracts with the Social Security Administration and the Interior and Defense departments' Dependents Schools for computer products and integration services.
While Qwest Communications International Inc. is vying with three other telecom contenders for a piece of the federal government's multibillion Networx Universal telecommunications contract, the carrier is busy battling its challengers on another front.
Network administrators usually spend their time concerned with routers, PCs and servers. Operating a chainsaw? Cutting down trees? That's not part of the job description.
