CompuDyne-Public Safety and Justice Inc., a subsidiary of CompuDyne Corp., has acquired Xanalys Corp., a provider of crime-solving and data-sharing tools.
Federal health officials and a Wisconsin medical IT company have set up a daily syndromic surveillance system for many of the hospitals and public health centers in the Gulf Coast disaster region to monitor for early warnings of disease outbreaks.
Federal purchasing officers may spend up to $10 million in goods and services for Hurricane Katrina recovery using <a href="http://www.acqsolinc.com/emergencycontracting/advisories_emergency.cfm">simplified procedures</a> with limited competition, according to a new white paper
AlphaInsight Corp. won a contract from the State Department's Bureau of Overseas Operations to provide network engineering, operations and management services.
David Safavian, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, today was arrested at his home in Alexandria, Va., on charges of obstructing a federal investigation and making false statements under oath, the FBI confirmed. He resigned from OFPP Friday, sources confirmed.
Alion Science and Technology has won a $60.7 million, three-year contract extension from the Defense Department to continue running its Weapons Systems Information Analysis Center.
AT&T Government Solutions won a five-year, $95 million contract to provide engineering and technical expertise to the Air Force's intelligence center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.)replaces former congressman Christopher Cox, who gave up the post when President Bush nominated him to become head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Lockheed Martin Corp. has been told by the Army to stop development on a multibillion-dollar battlefield spy plane and resolve ongoing production issues.
Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a contract to provide IT services to the Social Security Administration under its Electronic Disability Initiative National Scanning Project.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has won a contract from the Defense Department to continue providing support services to the Joint Requirements and Integration Office.
DRS Technologies has won $15 million in contracts to provide rugged Applique Computer Systems and peripheral equipment for the Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program.
President Bush's former counterterrorism chief yesterday called for the government to establish a system of open-source and transparent standards for a "federated" identity card system.
A final rule mandates that contractors must affix the devices on tags or pallets to improve "visibility of DOD assets in the supply chain, increase accuracy of shipments and receipts and reduce the number of logistic 'touch points' in order to decrease the amount of time it takes to deliver material to the warfighter."
Unisys Corp. has won a contract from the Federal Bureau of Prisons for nationwide deployment and operation of the next-generation federal inmate telephone system.
Pinkerton Computer Consultants Inc. won a contract to provide data governance support to the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program Office.
