Chicago has given Unisys Corp. a three-year contract extension, worth about $34 million, for outsourcing services to manage the city's distributed information technology infrastructure.
Vendors can use an agency's enterprise architecture as a guide to selling their products by showing how the products and services fit into an agency's mission, a market researcher advises.
Earlier this month, Atlanta-based Vista-Scape Security Systems Corp. beat a large systems integrator for a contract to set up a 50-camera perimeter surveillance system for a Navy harbor in San Diego. Its key to victory? Information technology, said Glenn McGonnigle, the company's chief executive officer.
Although President Bush submitted a wartime supplemental budget request to Congress that included $3.5 billion for rebuilding Iraq, the cost of rebuilding the country may run significantly higher than that, a congressional aide says.
At Anniston Army Depot, more than 2,600 employees perform maintenance on combat vehicles and their components, as well as weapons, including land combat missiles and small arms. Software is helping them do it more efficiently.
Sprint Communications Corp. is preparing to offer government customers a new IP-based intranet solution designed to meet the growing security and performance needs of federal and state agencies.
GTSI Corp. won a three-year, $300 million contract from U.S. Communities Purchasing and Finance Agency for IT products, solutions and services for state and local governments.
Government agencies are making less use of contracts awarded through open competition and more use of General Services Administration schedules, according to a new market-research study.
The government's push toward homeland security and e-government, combined with a businesslike approach to project spending, is driving the federal IT market, according to the chief of a federal market research firm.
Professional services firm Resource Consultants Inc. acquired Innerbase Technologies Inc., a provider of information technology services to federal agencies.
AeA, a trade association representing the high-tech industry, will team with B2Gsource Inc. and Federal Sources Inc. to help its members land government contracting opportunities in tough economic times.
Unisys Corp. and the Transportation Security Administration IT teams are deploying integrated Internet-ready applications throughout airports, seaports and other TSA-run facilities
Electronic Data Systems Corp. won a two-year, $27.2 million contract from the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to upgrade its Medicaid management information system.
Rep. Darrell Issa has introduced legislation that would mandate that the Army use American-based cell phone technology when building out a cellular phone infrastructure for Iraq.
Although the Army's Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems has existed for only a year, the systems it supports are seeing duty in the conflict in Iraq.
