BearingPoint Inc. has won a $23.9 million contract from the Ireland Department of Foreign Affairs to modernize information technology systems in the nation's passport office.
CACI International Inc. was awarded a $103 million prime contract to support Navy Enterprise Maintenance Automated Information System Data Center operations.
Raytheon Co. has put together a team of other defense, IT and communications heavyweights to pursue the next iteration of the Air Force's distributed common ground system, worth an estimated $161 million.
Three veterans of the public-sector information technology field have joined forces in a new venture, and are also entering an alliance with a market research firm specializing in government IT.
VeriSign Inc. will provide an agencywide public-key infrastructure service for a new smart-card personnel identification system being developed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The Transportation Security Administration is mismanaging its contracts and faces a $3 billion funding shortfall over the next two years, according the Department of Transportation's inspector general.
The General Accounting Office is questioning the reliability of the Federal Aviation Administration's life-cycle cost estimate for STARS, a system intended to replace outdated air traffic control equipment.
<FONT SIZE=2>The Bush administration's controversial proposal to eliminate the "double taxation" of dividends would impact capital market investors and influence the decisions of corporate executives and boards of directors. But whether the impacts are negative, neutral or positive will vary by industry and company and depend upon the strategy and stage of development of each business.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Information technology services firms with significant work in the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security will be winners under the Bush administration's proposed $59.3 billion federal IT budget for fiscal 2004, industry executives and analysts said. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Government buyers and large federal contractors will look for small-business partners at events nationwide this year through a new Small Business Administration program, sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington and Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif.</FONT>
General Dynamics Corp., Falls Church, Va., has won three contract orders, potentially worth more than $215 million for work on Army combat vehicles, including work on the Land Warrior Program.
Harris Corp. and ITT Industries Inc. have been chosen by the Federal Aviation Administration to develop competing prototypes for the agency's Next Generation Air/Ground Communications System, called NexCom.
Northrop Grumman Corp. and BEA Systems Inc. have formed a strategic alliance to pursue new business opportunities in the federal information technology market.
Within three years, Oracle Corp. hopes to have almost all government e-mail stored on agency databases and servers running its software, a company executive says.
