Perot Systems Corp. of Plano, Texas, has formed a government services unit through the acquisition of government consulting and information technology service provider ADI Technology Corp., Alexandria, Va.
Veridian Corp. won a five-year contract worth $154.4 million for scientific, technical, administrative, research, development, test and evaluation services, or STARS, from the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at China Lake and Point Mugu, Calif.
WorldCom Inc.'s legal and financial woes are rippling through the government marketplace, sparking a review of the company's federal contracts and raising concerns about its ability to continue providing services.
A joint venture pairing Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded the Coast Guard's $11 billion Integrated Deepwater System contract.
Edward Bersoff, the former top executive at BTG Inc., has joined the investment and banking firm of Quarterdeck Investment Partners LLC as managing director of the Los Angeles firm's Washington office.
Federal spending on telecommunications products and services will grow 8 percent annually from $10.8 billion in fiscal 2002 to $16.1 billion in 2007, according to estimates by Input Inc., a Chantilly, Va., market research firm.
Conquest Inc., Annapolis Junction, Md., won a $140 million contract expansion with a U.S. intelligence agency. Under the 3 1/2-year contract, Conquest will provide systems engineering and technical support for several initiatives to modernize the agency's systems capabilities.
Two of the three companies protesting the award of a 10-year, $450 million high-speed networking contract to WorldCom Inc. have withdrawn complaints they made to the General Accounting Office.
Computer Sciences Corp. and San Diego County negotiators are desperately working to settle a contract dispute after county officials charged CSC with being in default on a groundbreaking information technology outsourcing project.
Datum Inc. is marketing its cesium atomic clock as an alternative to global positioning system-based solutions that telecommunications companies now rely on to synchronize time across voice and data networks.
More than half the undergraduates enrolled in the management of information systems degree program at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury are taking the information security track, according to Marie Wright, associate professor of management information systems. The university first offered the information security track in 1999. Ninety percent of undergraduate MIS students now take at least one information security course, she said.
Federal spending on telecommunications will grow 8 percent annually from $10.8 billion in fiscal 2002 to $16.1 billion in 2007, according to estimates by a market research firm.
WorldCom Inc., the Clinton, Miss., telecommunications and networking services giant that has been battered on Wall Street for months, is now fighting off rumors that it is in discussions with AT&T Corp. to be acquired.
The Boeing Co. successfully flew its unmanned combat aircraft as the company demonstrated the command and control link between the craft and a ground station.
Harris Corp. unveiled May 23 the team that will compete for the Federal Aviation Administration's 10-year, $500 million Next Generation Air/Ground Communications program, called Nexcom.
