Major homeland security IT contracts awarded to Northrop Grumman, Accenture and Unisys are among IT programs coming under scrutiny by Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General.
CGI-AMS Inc. has won a $2.7 million contract from the Internal Revenue Service to assist the agency with the first phase of its Filing and Payment Compliance initiative.
Serco has provided job preparation services for servicemen and women, their families and civilian Army personnel for 15 years, and recently won a recompete for a $48 million contract to continue performing the services.
San Diego County has qualified eight systems integrators to compete for the renewal of its seven-year, $875 million enterprisewide IT outsourcing project scheduled for award later this year.
The head of a new anti-fraud task force is promising to crack down hard on illegal contracting practices and procurement fraud in government contracting.
Like every other federal agency, the Food and Drug Administration has been directed to improve its enterprise architecture and break down walls that isolate agency databases.
The sales channel is not a new concept. Makers of hardware and software products have long used multiple channels -- distributors, resellers and systems integrators -- to sell their products to government. But many of them are shifting even more of their sales to channel partners as a way to drive corporate growth.
Networking and IT security provider AEP Networks Inc. of Somerset, N.J., plans to buy V-One Corp., an Internet security company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Federal IT workers can name dozens of vendors--some more often than others. CDW Government Inc., IBM Corp. and Dell Computer Corp. generated the highest unaided awareness ratings for a reseller, integrator and direct-selling manufacturer, according to a new survey from Market Connections Inc. of Fairfax, Va.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), ranking Democrat on the House Small Business Committee, announced her support for a lawsuit filed by women business owners to force the government to meet its goal of spending 5 percent of its contracting dollars with women-owned firms.
About 18 months ago, officials at Network Appliance Inc. didn't worry whether its products were sold to the federal government directly or through reseller partners.
Sun Microsystems Inc.'s $4.1 billion purchase of Storage Technology Corp. is taking place against the backdrop of a rapidly growing data storage industry.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATE) </font color> L-3 Communications' acquisition of Titan Corp. should extend L-3's prime contractor position in getting work from the federal government, says CEO Frank Lanza.
A unit of CompuDyne Corp. has won a $1.3 million contract from the Irving, Texas, Police Department to provide an integrated public safety and criminal-justice system.
Presentation: Usability Through User-Centered Design: A Simulating Process, how the Social Security Administration uses application simulation to "test market" applications with their users, at the Tower Club, Vienna, Va.
Harris Corp. won a $6.6 million research and development contract from the Army Communications-Electronics Command to develop and demonstrate the Jigsaw Laser Radar 3D-imaging test-bed system for use on an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Pragmatics Inc. has been awarded a blanket purchasing agreement by Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection agency for software testing services.
