In a move that will expand its work with the federal government, Computer Sciences Corp. is buying DynCorp, an employee-owned information technology and outsourcing company.<br>
AT&T Corp. won a State Department contract to help ensure strategic international communication services are available to about 50 federal agencies in more than 250 countries around the world.<br>
<FONT SIZE=2>Affiliated Computer Services Inc. won a $600 million contract from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission for fiscal agent and administrative services to support the state's Medicaid and Texas Health Network programs, the company announced. </FONT>
Secret Service assistant director Steve Colo says the new Homeland Security Department will consolidate all its component agencies' software licenses and predicted there would be more IT outsourcing pioneered by Transportation Security Administration.<br>
Outsourced managed security service contracts are the wave of the future for government networks, but the market is still nascent, Symantec Corp.'s chief says.<br>
James Flyzik, senior adviser in the federal Office of Homeland Security, says he will join two other former government-IT market veterans to form a consulting firm after he retires next week.<br>
A federal court issued a stay Dec. 10, prohibiting the Pentagon from withholding payments on government contracts worth $2.3 billion from two major defense contractors.<br>
The federal Office of Management and Budget has released a second inventory of jobs that could be opened to public-private competition under Circular A-76. <br>
Northrop Grumman Corp. has reached agreement with the Justice Department on terms of a consent decree that should allow the company to soon close its $7.8 billion acquisition of TRW Inc.<br>
Computer Sciences Corp. won a $23 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to help develop advanced capabilities for the ballistic missile defense system.<br>
SRA International Inc. won a two-year, $18.9 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide information technology support services for the Federal Parent Locator System.<br>
After Friday's search of software vendor Ptech Inc.'s headquarters, the Justice Department says the government does not have any reason to believe any federal systems have been compromised.<br>
The assets of bankrupt network services provider Genuity Inc., Woburn, Mass., which counts as its customers the Defense Department and state agencies, are being acquired by Level 3 Communications Inc., Broomfield, Colo.<br>
ManTech International Corp. is acquiring a Northern Virginia neighbor, CTX Corp., a provider of information technology and software strategies and solutions to the U.S. national intelligence community.<br>
