A controversial $2 billion outsourcing contract being let by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency has been postponed in the aftermath of the terrrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.
Keane Inc. and Metro Information Services Inc. have been cleared by the Federal Trade Commission to move forward with Keane's planned acquisition of Metro.
Government information technology sellers responded to the recovery efforts of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the best way they knew how: by offering the services and equipment that are their mainstays. In the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, many IT companies set up relief funds and made donations to the Red Cross. But many also freely gave of their core services.
Electronic Data Systems Corp. announced the first end-user seat connection between the Washington Naval Air Facility and network operations centers in Norfolk, Va. and San Diego was established.
Ciber Inc. has announced it signed an agreement to acquire the public-sector information technology entity Metamor Industry Solutions Inc. and its subsidiary, Metamor Government Services Inc.
While the new concept of grid computing has started to flourish in the academic community, officials with IBM Corp. already are eyeing corporate and government applications that could follow recent experimental projects the company has won.
The federal government's push to purchase information technology that is accessible to people with disabilities has not only focused attention on the needs of 54 million disabled people nationwide, but also has created a competitive market for accessible IT products and related services.
Harris and BAE Systems Inc. won a $2.5 million contract from the Air Force for the risk-reduction phase of a system that provides a high-bandwidth, air-to-air and surface-to-air, digital data link to transmit and receive command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data between airborne platforms and ground- and ship-based terminals.
While there has been a significant amount of consolidation in the federal markets over the past few years, there has been relatively little consolidation among the commercial information technology services firms.
Science Applications International Corp. and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young have signed preferred provider agreements with the University Healthsystem Consortium to provide consortium members with health insurance services.
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.
A few months ago, a major systems integrator put out a request for proposal inviting other companies to bid on the chance to come in and second-guess its work.
The globalization of commerce, technology and finance has begun to affect the aerospace, defense and public-sector markets. The relaxation of many of the impediments to more open government markets is gaining momentum in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom and European markets. This trend is likely to continue and, more probably, to expand in the years ahead,
When NASA needed a foolproof way of controlling who entered its new Triana Science and Operations Center at the University of California in San Diego, it went for fingerprint-based access.
Accenture Ltd. of Hamilton, Bermuda, has acquired San Francisco-based Epylon Corp., a supplier of electronic procurement solutions for government and education.
Client Network Services Inc. signed a$172 million contract for information technology services with the National Nuclear Security Administration, and a $15 million deal from Maine to develop an e-government program.
Keane Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Metro Information Services Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $135 million.
