Anteon International Corp. has won a $35 million contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center for scientific and technical information technology network maintenance and operation services.
The Boeing Co. announced June 24 that the Army's Communications-Electronics Command has selected its team as the system engineering contractor to develop the Joint Tactical Radio System, a new communications system to serve as the foundation for all future Defense Department tactical radios. The value of the contract plus options could exceed $2 billion for the initial system development and demonstration and low-rate initial production phases of the program, referred to as Cluster 1 and scheduled to last up to six years.
Anteon Corp. has won a five-year, $93 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center to help move new technologies from research and development to shipboard use.
BAE Systems Mission Solutions will provide the U.S. Strategic Command with engineering services and onsite support of the air vehicle planning system program.
CACI International Inc. won a contract to provide information technology support to the systems center of the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in Norfolk, Va.
Cray Inc. has been selected to develop and build a supercomputer system for Sandia National Laboratories, while Silicon Graphics Inc. is upgrading a supercomputer it supplied to the NASA Ames Research Center.
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration Inc. has won a five-year contract with the Defense Civilian Personnel Management Service to provide a personnel management system.
The House Judiciary Committee June 13 approved by voice vote a bill that would let the FBI and CIA share with state and local police classified information about terrorist threats. The Bush administration supports the bipartisan bill, which is headed for the floor of the House.
President Bush's proposed Homeland Security Department will rely heavily on data sharing and analysis to combat terrorist threats, and will require a systems infrastructure to support that mission -- a complex integration challenge that already has information technology companies scrambling for a piece of the action.
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In addition to procurement contracts and research grants available to all agencies, Congress in 1989 allowed the Defense Department to use "other transactions" to develop information systems and other technologies for military and intelligence services.
Government and information technology industry officials are anxiously awaiting a new federal procurement rule, to be issued June 26, that is meant to ensure adequate competition on Defense Department multiple-award contracts.
As White House officials consider new rules to replace the A-76 process for private-public competition, several lawmakers are preparing to re-introduce legislation that would make it more difficult to outsource government work to the private sector.
IT industry and government officials at a June 7 congressional hearing praised a proposed federal program that would evaluate technical solutions to homeland security challenges.
The General Accounting Office has ordered NASA to reconsider the January award of a $143 million contract to DynCorp after a subsidiary of Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Inc. protested the choice, claiming the agency's "best value" determination was flawed.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeking information on commercial products with metadata search engine capability for the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network.
Members of Congress testifying before a House panel June 11 said they would work with the administration so that a bill establishing a Department of Homeland Security could be signed by Sept. 11, the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. "Doesn't it make sense to approve the conference report for a new Department of Homeland Security at our extraordinary congressional session in New York City Sept. 6, and to witness the signing ceremony at the Pentagon Sept. 11?" asked Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.
Members of a key House technology panel June 7 responded enthusiastically to President Bush's proposed Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. "I believe the proposed Department of Homeland Security will greatly assist information sharing by reorganizing the government along more rational, strategic lines that will more efficiently pursue homeland security," said Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.
