The new U.S. focus on terrorism has made college students more aware of the roles science and technology play in the military, intelligence and homeland security fields, according to a poll.
Because the company is not returning to profitability quickly enough, James Dodd has been removed as CEO of National Information Consortium Inc. Jeffrey Fraser returns to the post.
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Tullahoma, Tenn., won a $565 million U.S. Army contract to provide support services for automation, data and voice communications, visual information, and records management to the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala.
Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif., won a five-year, $160 million contract with the Department of State to provide information technology and professional and technical services at locations worldwide.
The siren call of the booming federal information technology market, estimated to reach almost $53 billion in fiscal 2003, should be ignored by companies that do not already sell in that space or do not have established partners that sell there.
TRW Inc. and Northrop Grumman Corp. have signed a confidentiality agreement that will give Northrop Grumman access to non-public financial information from TRW.
Unitech Inc. has won a $16.1 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration to assist in the design, implementation and maintenance of the TSA technology infrastructure.
Science Applications International Corp. has won a $65 million contract from the Defense Finance Accounting Service for education and training services.
WebMethods Inc. has hired former Virginia Secretary of Technology Don Upson as senior vice president of business operations for its public-sector unit.
The federal information technology market seems enticing from the outside, but if your company is not already selling in that space or does not have established partners who sell there, it's probably too late to jump in now. That was one conclusion offered by Jim Kane, president and chief executive officer of Federal Sources Inc., at the market research firm's 17th annual federal outlook conference May 8.
IBM Corp. has put together a team heavy with fellow systems integrators to compete for the what will be the largest government personnel and pay system ever implemented.
Lockheed Martin executives like Linda Gooden see the company's capture of the $401 million Consolidated Information Technology Infastructure contract as an important win with an important customer for the Bethesda, Md.-based company.
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On March 12, Joseph Kampf stood at the podium of the New York Stock Exchange and prepared to ring the opening bell. His company, Anteon Corp., was about to go public, and to mark the occasion, Anteon had passed out 5,000 company hats to the traders and to the five-dozen employees who accompanied Kampf to New York.
Holli Ploog joined Unisys Corp. May 1 as a vice president in the company's public-sector unit. She was previously senior vice president of corporate development for Dyntek Inc. of Irvine, Calif.
IBM Corp. is adding satellite connectivity from Hughes Network Systems Inc. to provide broadband capability to an existing program that rural governments can use to operate their own Web sites.
