Shortly after Ken Dahlberg was named chief executive officer of Science Applications International Corp. in November, he received calls from the Secretary of the Navy, the National Security Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and other federal agencies with which the company has done business.
InfoVista Inc. said the Defense Information Systems Agency has chosen its Foundation 1.0 software to monitor network performance and service levels in the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion project.
IBM Corp.'s eServer product line running Novell Inc.'s Suse Linux Enterprise Server 8 operating system achieved Controlled Access Protection Profile compliance under the Common Criteria for Information Security Evaluation.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. and the Georgia Department of Community Health have tentatively settled a dispute involving a health claims processing contract.
Raytheon Technical Services Co. LLC, a subsidiary of Waltham, Mass.-based Raytheon Co., consolidated two of its business units and appointed new members to its leadership team.
Wireless Facilities Inc. has bought High Technology Solutions Inc., a company offering communications systems engineering and operational outsourcing services to federal agencies.
A team of companies led by a Lockheed Martin Corp. subsidiary is building a tool to help the intelligence community keep tabs on the spooks behind its firewalls.
<b>Fiscal 2004 budget :</b> The last budget bill for 2004, affecting 11 civilian agencies and foreign operations, will likely pass Congress in February or March, upping spending levels on existing IT projects and jump-starting new ones.
If you had asked him six months ago how states were doing, Scott Pattison would have said that nearly every state was having severe budget problems. That's no longer the case.
<b>New Hampshire Administrative Services Department</b><br><b>Project: </b>Statewide Enterprise Resource Planning System<br><b>Term:</b> TBD<br><b>Estimated value:</b> TBD<br><b>RFP release:</b> January <br>The department has a requirement for a statewide ERP system that will include budget and finance, human resources and electronic purchasing modules.
MetaCarta Inc., which previously received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency's In-Q-Tel venture capital fund, closed a $6.5 million series B round that will allow it to continue developing search technology used by intelligence and military organizations.
For three top-tier government contractors ? the Boeing Co., Computer Sciences Corp. and Electronic Data Systems Corp. ? the new year provides a chance for correction following an unpleasant end to 2003.
Making predictions is easy. Getting them right is ... well, not so easy. Just ask the guys who predicted that the stock market would reach 36,000.But that doesn't mean you can't get a useful sense of directions and trends. For our annual look at the year ahead, the Washington Technology staff talked to experts in government and industry and found widespread agreement on several important issues.
Until I read the article on the Coalition for Government Procurement, I was unaware of exactly how closely the coalition is tied to Washington Management Group ("Access Denied: Industry association excludes competitors, critics charge," Dec. 15). But I must say, the revelation does explain a few things.
Everyone's new year starts with a long list of resolutions and goals. For these government and industry executives, that list also includes challenges and problems that will have repercussions beyond their own companies or organizations. The government IT community will be marking closely their successes and failures.
