Affiliated Computer Services Inc. won a three-year, $109 million contract from the Illinois Department of Public Aid to provide child support payment processing services.
Science Applications International Corp. won a five-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract worth about $50 million to support networking at the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
SI International Inc. will provide space sensors engineering and technical services support to the Air Force Space Command. Potential value of the contract: $43.5 million over nine years.
Five companies have formed a partnership to meet the heightened security monitoring needs for airborne chemical, biological and radiological agents in the United States.
It will be at least June before the new Homeland Security Department is in a position to begin spending money on new information technology initiatives, the department's CIO says.
The sudden departure of Richard Brown, chairman and chief executive of EDS, should not have any impact on the company's government unit, a company spokeswoman says.
Northrop Grumman Information Technology won a task order from the General Services Administration to deliver middleware that allows smart cards to communicate with computers and computer applications for the Army's Common Access Card program.<br>
Competing against each other on the Army Forces Command's $650 million Operations, Planning, Training and Resource Support Services contract are Anteon, CACI, SAIC, Eagle Group, ICI Solutions, TRW, Booz Allen Hamilton and Computer Sciences Corp.
Sun Microsystems Inc. has hired Larry Singer, former chief information officer of Georgia, as vice president of Sun's global information systems strategy office.
<FONT SIZE=2>Federal IT stocks have been weak over the past couple months for a number of reasons, including uncertainty from civilian budget delays and potential reallocation of funds because of the possible conflict with Iraq. Some investors are also saying that growth may have gotten "as good as it could get." As an example, they point out that defense spending growth in fiscal 2004 is currently proposed at about 4 percent, compared to double-digit increases the two previous years. </FONT>
Microsoft Corp. has released a patch for the rare zero-day exploit of a weakness in its Windows 2000 operating systems, but some security experts say a broader attack could be in the offing.
Two video distribution companies have rolled their product partnership into the federal sector, jointly marketing to agencies a packaged video streaming system.
At a Senate hearing today, federal officials said efforts to unbundle contracts and ease the effects of necessary bundling on small businesses could work if properly implemented and monitored.
