MPC Computers finds a new home

By midsummer, MPC Computers LLC will enter the next leg of what has been a most interesting journey for the Nampa, Idaho, computer maker.

DHS gets speedier with Safety Act approvals

Six more products and services won Safety Act certifications and designations in April as the Homeland Security Department picks up the pace of approvals.

CSC wins FBI task order

Computer Sciences Corp. won a task order to provide certification, accreditation and information security services to the FBI's Information Security Division.

Congress poised to smite DHS' technology programs

Congress is moving to clip the wings of the Homeland Security Department's CIO and punish the department for ignoring demands from lawmakers for information.

House committee passes GSA reorganization bill

The House Government Reform Committee today made it easier for the General Services Administration to reorganize.

SRA tapped to help SEC security

SRA International Inc. won a five-year, $12.7 million task order for information assurance services.

ManTech acquires Gray Hawk

ManTech International Corp. is buying Gray Hawk Systems Inc., an intelligence systems provider, for $100 million in a deal that will help ManTech bust the $1 billion revenue barrier.

New outsourcing consulting firm launches

Consulting firm EquaTerra Inc. has set up a public-sector practice that will focus on government agencies considering outsourcing.

Survey: Sarbanes-Oxley has big impact

Sixty-eight percent of U.S. corporate IT executives said complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is having a major impact on their IT operations.

BearingPoint wins Purdue ERP integration deal

BearingPoint Inc. has won an $18.9 million contract from Purdue University to modernize business systems by implementing enterprise resource planning software.

Verizon prevails in battle for MCI

Verizon Communications Inc. emerged as the winner yesterday with a revised $8.5 billion bid in a crushing 11-week battle with Qwest Communications International Inc. for long-distance company MCI Inc.

Business Roundtable wants CEOs to play bigger role in cybersecurity

Corporate chief executives must take individual and collective responsibility for the nation's cybersecurity, but they may need more management tools to do that effectively.

New list of critical vulnerabilities released for Q1 2005

The SANS Institute of Bethesda, Md., has begun updating its top 20 list of Internet vulnerabilities on a quarterly basis in an effort to give administrators more timely data to help prioritize patching.

OMB provides updated financial system requirements draft

The Office of Management and Budget has made available its list of revised financial system requirements.

CACI calls GAO report flawed

GAO's report on how federal contracts were awarded to private companies to provide military support services in Iraq, did not take into account the severe battle conditions at that time.

NATO starts work on ground surveillance system

A consortium of international companies have won a contract for more than $25.8 million to develop NATO's Alliance Ground Surveillance program.

Florida tries to revive Matrix

Florida is considering creating a successor to the controversial Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange law enforcement database that shut down April 15 after its federal funding expired.

EU boosts research, IT budgets

The European Union's head office is proposing $7 billion in spending on research and information technology in fiscal 2006 under a new budget submitted this week.

L-3 aids South Korean Navy

L-3 Communications will help aircraft manufacturer Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. to modernize systems for eight South Korean Navy maritime patrol and reconnaissance planes.

COMTek continues work for the USDA

Communications Technologies Inc. has launched the new $9 million phase of its work for the Farm Service Agency where the company maintains servers and in about 2,500 offices.