Increasingly, the major players in federal information technology and defense technology services, or government tech services, are the aerospace and defense primes.
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s plan to buy Compaq Computer Corp. is good news for GTSI Corp., according to GTSI's chief executive Dendy Young. The merger, said Young, would help his company better compete against what he called "the Dell threat."
GTSI Corp., Chantilly Va., has won a three-year blanket purchase agreement worth up to $28 million to supply the Marine Corps with ruggedized notebook computers, the company announced Sept. 11.
Covansys Corp. has won a $14.5 million contract to implement a new pension administration system for the Public Employees Retirement Board of Nebraska, the company announced Sept. 11.
The market for solution integration services is growing rapidly and will top $100 billion by 2005, according to research released by market research firm International Data Corp.
Commercial Linux vendor Red Hat Inc., Durham, N.C. wants to establish a non-profit organization that would introduce Linux and open source software to the education market.
In-Q-Tel Inc., the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm, has invested $30 million over the past two years in companies with promising technologies.
CACI International Inc. plans to purchase Digital Systems International Corp. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but privately held Digital Systems International had revenue of $55 million over the past 12 months.
For Computer Sciences Corp., winning the National Security Agency's huge Groundbreaker outsourcing contract has been like catching a tiger by the tail.
Compaq Computer Corp.'s subcontracting role on the recently announced $2 billion National Security Agency Project Groundbreaker ? won by Computer Sciences Corp. ? is more than just sweet success for the Houston company. It represents the federal unit's new emphasis on being the sole provider of both hardware and support services for integrators.
At a time when many young companies are struggling to survive in the highly competitive state and local government market, GovConnect Inc. has not only found a firm toehold, it has managed to thrive.
Silicon Graphics Inc. has tapped Anthony Robbins, president of its federal unit, to head up the newly created North American field operations division.
The $350 million lawsuit filed July 17 against American Management Systems Inc. by a federal agency for alleged failure to perform is the latest in a string of legal conflicts, which are casting a pall on the company's operations.
When the news came in April that IBM Corp. was named prime contractor for the U.S. Customs Service's 15-year, $1.3 billion modernization contract, a lot of folks in government and industry took it to mean Big Blue was returning to the federal marketplace, years after selling off its government unit.
American Management Systems Inc. took a pounding on Wall Street the day after it was sued by one of its federal customers for $350 million for failure to perform. The company's stock dropped nearly 24 percent from $21.30 to $16.24 July 18 after the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board terminated a contract with AMS and filed suit against it.
Lockheed Martin IMS has resurrected major portions of the now defunct Netgov.com and Carta Inc., announcing July 11 that it had hired former top executives and employees from the two e-government companies and purchased proprietary software from Netgov.
