In January, Texas attorney Riecke Baumann filed the first electronic lawsuit in Fort Bend County, Texas, while sitting in his Houston office, an hour drive from the courthouse.
Homeland security contracting has emerged over the past 18 months as an area of intense interest in the contracting community. Many large systems integrators have shuffled priorities and resources to go after this growing market, and hosts of smaller companies, many of them new to the government market, have set their sights on entry into this field.
Autonomy Corporation plc, Cambridge, U.K., is planning to buy Virage Inc., San Mateo, Calif., in a $24.8 million cash deal, Autonomy announced Thursday.
Computer Horizons Corp., a professional services company in Mountain Lakes, N.J., has entered the federal market with a $31 million deal to buy RGII Technologies Inc. of Annapolis, Md.
Federal agencies missed their aim of sending 23 percent of prime contracting dollars to small businesses for the third straight year, according to the annual scorecard produced by Democratic members of the House Committee on Small Business.
Optimism and frustration represent an unusual ying-yang, especially for technology entrepreneurs who are living through - "surviving" may be a better description - this era of unprecedented change.
From their offices in Vienna, Va., the four founders of Appian Corp. can look down on the apartment complex where they lived, played basketball and, in August 1999, began their software and professional services firm.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc., Dallas, won a five-year, $6 million task order to provide the Air Force Materiel Command with information technology support services.
The consolidation trend is alive and well in the federal information technology industry. General Dynamics Corp.'s agreement to acquire Veridian Corp. for $35 per share in cash, or $1.5 billion including debt, certainly got the attention of industry, as well as investors.
Oracle Corp. this morning upped its all-cash offer for PeopleSoft Inc. by $3.50 a share, the latest twist in a hostile takeover bid by the database software giant.
