NASA's Davis goes to VA

Jerry Davis, chief information security officer at NASA, is leaving to join the Veterans Affairs Department.

SAIC wins $80M award for support work at NASA center

Science Applications International Corp. will provide information technology services to NASA under a five-year subcontract from Primus Solutions Inc. valued at more than $80 million.

Dell servers will power NASA’s climate change investigations

Dell Computer Corp. has entered into a $5.1 million contract to provide new servers to NASA so the agency can conduct simulation modeling and data analysis to explore, understand and predict climate change.

NASA goes to GD for new satellite architecture

General Dynamics C4 Systems will help modernize NASA’s Tracking Data and Relay Satellite System through a $642.2 million contract.

General Dynamics wins $642.2M satellite communications deal

General Dynamics Corp. will upgrade NASA satellite communications by building out a new ground-system architecture for space-to-ground communications and tracking.

Cloud computing and the changing role of the CIO

Will cloud computing make the role of the information technology department and chief information officer obsolete? If not, it will sure change the roles.

University of Maryland honors faculty members elected to National Academies

The University of Maryland held a reception for faculty members who recently were elected to the National Academies of Science and Engineering.

Social networking fuels collaboration among NASA researchers

The NASA Earth Exchange uses social networking to enable scientists around the world to share data, software code and research results.

Raytheon reaches for the stars with $250M NASA contract

Raytheon Co. wins a five-year contract worth as much as $250 million to maintain and manage large volumes of sensing data and imagery from space instruments.

Is GSA gunning for other GWACs?

Blogger Steve Kelman argues that the federal government is better off having GSA compete with other agencies for acquisition business.

Countdown to the launch of NASA's $4B IT consolidation

Companies will compete to handle the agency's PC, mobile communications and other related services for an estimated $2.5 billion over 10 years. Four other contracts will bring the total to more than $4 billion for a broad range of IT services.

NASA rethinks $1.5B enterprise data center contract

NASA recently announced that it would be reworking its plans for acquiring an enterprise data center to better meet the agency's needs.

Opportunities abound when agencies look to the cloud

Contractors will have a chance to play a significant role in the government's move to make data more open to the public and other agencies, which likely will involve cloud computing.

Breakdown of NASA's $4.3B IT upgrade

NASA has broken its planned $4.3 billion information technology services consolidation program into five contracts.

Global space spending falls to Earth

Global spending on space-related projects hit a peak in 2009, but leaner times are expected going forward.

ASRC to support NASA's Stennis Space Center

ASRC Research and Technology Solutions will provide information and technical services to NASA’s Stennis Space Center under a new $54.5 million contract.

Astronaut sends wife flowers from space via the Internet

NASA Commander Jeff Williams used the Internet access aboard the International Space Station to send his wife flowers.

NASA extends contract at Marshall Space Flight Center

Bastion Technologies Inc. has won a $36 million contract extension to continue working at NASA’s Marshall Space Fight Center.

Simulation technology heads for the cloud

Parabon wins a small business research award to develop a modeling and simulation as a service technology platform.