The Government Electronics and Information Technology Association's annual forecast of the federal IT marketplace expects the anticipated budget of $60.8 billion in 2005 to grow to $72.9 billion in fiscal 2010.
Raytheon Co. acquired Photon Research Associates Inc. of San Diego in a move that strengthens the defense company's capabilities in missile defense, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and homeland security.
EDS Corp. and the Navy yesterday signed two contract modifications on the $8.82 billion Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program that reduce the number of service-level agreements and allow EDS to begin billing 100 percent for each seat in the huge project.
The company ousted its chief executive officer the same day the Justice Department bowed out of a fight to keep Oracle Corp's hands off the software firm.
Ken Johnson, president of U.S. operations at CACI International Inc., will retire Nov. 1 to spend more time with his family, the company announced today.
NORFOLK, Va. ? "Every state and local government builds its own one-off, best-of-breed custom jalopy" for a data center or e-government portal, and "it digs a deeper hole by going open source," Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman Scott McNealy said at the Commonwealth of Virginia IT Symposium.
The dealmaking continues at BAE Systems North America as it announces its second acquisition of the month. BAE Systems will buy Burlington, Mass.-based Alphatech Inc. for $88.4 million, officials BAE Systems said today.
Some of the world's biggest defense companies are planning to cooperate to build more interoperable systems. The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, will work on standards and guidelines so that all networked platforms seamlessly communicate.
CSSI Inc. won a five-year, $9 million contract to help the Federal Aviation Administration and the International Civil Aviation Organization implement new standards for separation for air traffic.
A new oversight board in Virginia is charting a course toward an enterprise approach to technology as it continues to assert its control over all technology planning for the state.
The new chief executive of Accenture Ltd.'s government unit is looking to health care services as a key area for growth as the company brings its international experience to the United States.
IBM Corp. and Boeing Co. are working together to pursue what they see as a $200 billion market for ground- and space-based systems used in network-centric operations. The alliance already is pursing four intelligence and eight Defense Department programs, company officials said.
As the Army readies the next version of its Information Technology Enterprise Solutions program, service leaders are taking steps to ensure greater use of performance-based contracting on ITES 2 projects. According to ITES 2 program overseer <b>Kevin Carroll</b>, ITES2 will have a larger ceiling than before and will focus on performance contracting.
A wireless public safety project and an emergency management system are among the eight projects to be recognized this year by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.
Microsoft Corp. announced that Gerri Elliott will be the new corporate vice president of its Worldwide Public Sector group, replacing Maggie Wilderotter.
David Wennergren, the Navy's chief information officer, called on industry for ideas to help the Defense Department understand and spread the word about the use of biometric technologies for its identity management program.
Federal officials are asking for comments on how time-and-materials and labor-hour contracts are used to buy commercial products and how the contract types could be used to buy commercial services.
