<FONT SIZE=2>These are the markets that spurred companies to make acquisitions, restructure operations and invest new resources. Here's where IT executives expect to make money.</FONT>
Lockheed Martin Corp. has been awarded a $32 million contract to modernize the Albania national airspace system. This is the largest contract to be awarded to an American company by the Albanian Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the government's first commercially financed industrial project, the company said.
<FONT SIZE=2>Technology companies hoping to protect or even expand their work with cash-strapped state governments will need to step forward with solutions that can produce short-term savings or generate badly needed revenue for state customers. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Before mid-2000, commercial information technology companies, those serving predominantly commercial and state and local markets, outperformed the federal IT companies, both on an operating basis and in the stock market. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2> Throw out the crystal ball. High-tech executives will have to rely on instinct, experience and up-to-the-minute intelligence to navigate the government IT market in 2003.</FONT>
Silicon Graphics Inc. is trying to break open a new government market for high-end computers with a new technology that aggregates memory banks of multiple Linux machines.
A new report projects federal spending on information technology outsourcing services will increase from $6.6 billion to nearly $15 billion by fiscal 2007.
Miriam F. Browning, who retired last year as director of enterprise integration in the Army's CIO Office, has joined the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.
After 66 years under the aegis of the Illinois Institute of Technology, the non-profit consulting company IIT Research Institute has spun off into a new, employee-owned business.
Systems integrator PlanGraphics Inc. has won a task order with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to support its enterprise architecture practice.
BearingPoint Inc., McLean, Va., and Veridian Corp., Arlington, Va., have each won a spot on a $123 million contract to provide engineering and program management services for Navy aircraft.
Georgia's groundbreaking telecommunications outsourcing project has suffered another major setback as one of the two teams vying for the $1.8 billion opportunity withdrew its bid.
Anne Reed, former president of Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s state and local government group, is joining the research and consulting company Acquisition Solutions Inc.
