EES wins $1 billion DOE IT consolidation deal

Energy Enterprise Solutions LLC won a $1 billion competitive sourcing contract from the Energy Department to provide consolidated IT services?one of the largest federal IT services contracts ever awarded to a small business.

DataLogic buys network design and consulting firm

DataLogic International Inc. has acquired BluBat Inc., a network design and consulting company.

Small businesses win big bucks on NetCents

In just one year, the Network-Centric Solutions program has brought a windfall of $429.7 million to the eight prime contractors allowed to bid on the work.

Mergers & acquisitions

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. of Dallas sold its $200 million-a-year welfare-to-workforce services to Arbor E&T LLC for an undisclosed sum in a deal expected to close in January.

Market watch: New M&A vehicles offer investment alternative

Investors' interest in federal IT, defense and homeland security companies has been affirmed again through recent public offerings by special purpose acquisition corporations, or SPACs.

L-3 closes EOTech purchase

L-3 Communications Inc. has closed its all-cash, $49 million purchase of EOTech Inc., a maker of advanced weapon sights.

Small Business Index numbers fall to 8-year low

High health care and energy costs coupled with the regional devastation caused by recent hurricanes are creating a poor climate for small business growth, according to a study released today by the House Committee on Small Business.

Viisage to buy Integrated Biometric Technology

Viisage Inc. is acquiring Integrated Biometric Technology Inc., a provider of fingerprinting technologies, in a cash and stock deal.

ACS unloads welfare-to-workforce business line

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has sold its welfare-to-workforce services to Arbor E&T LLC for an undisclosed sum in order to focus on its core business process and IT outsourcing services.

IRS awards TIPSS-3 contracts

The IRS has awarded Total Information Processing Support Services-3 contracts to 21 vendors. The contracts are valued at up to $3 billion over five years.

Mergers and acquisitions roundup

Level 3 Communications Inc. of Broomfield, Colo., will buy Internet services provider WilTel Communications Group LLC for $370 million cash and 115 million shares stock in a deal to close in the first quarter of 2006.

CSC, Lockheed talk deal

Computer Sciences Corp. may be the next big acquisition candidate in the realm of non-stop mergers and acquisitions in the federal IT market.

Manatron buys Plexis Group

Manatron Inc. has acquired Plexis Group LLC, a provider of software solutions and support services, for $1 million cash.

AT&T's numbers emphasize commitment to small business

AT&T Government Solutions underscored its commitment to small-business partnering when it tapped 30 such companies for its team chasing the gargantuan Networx telecommunications contracts.

SRA completes Spectrum Solutions buy

SRA International Inc. has completed its acquisition of Spectrum Solutions Group Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

SiloSmashers to help merge federal acquisition centers

SiloSmashers Inc. has won a pair of contracts from the Interior Department totaling $9.7 million to help merge two previously separate federal acquisition centers into a single procurement organization.

Level 3 to buy WilTel

Level 3 Communications Inc. has agreed to buy Internet services provider WilTel Communications Group LLC for $370 million in cash and 115 million shares of Level 3 common stock.

FCC gives OK to telecom mergers

The Federal Communications Commission today approved the mergers of SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. and MCI Inc. The deals could be final by early 2006.

FCC to vote on proposed telecom mega-mergers

The Federal Communications Commission is expected today to decide whether to approve SBC Communications Inc.'s $16 billion purchase of AT&T Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc.'s $8.5 billion purchase of MCI Inc.

First the Merger, Then the Mess

Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein gives his take on why the rumored acquisition of Computer Sciences Corp. by Lockheed Martin Corp. isn't such a good thing.