Affiliated Computer Services Inc. will assume the management of California’s Medicaid Management Information System under a 10-year, $1.6 billion contract.
The $120 million outsourcing contract Dell Perot Systems won to process citizenship and immigration applications is both a new contract for the company and sort of a follow-on.
A new $35 million contract will permit Harris Corp. to continue to deliver network operations support to the Defense Commissary Agency and its distribution of commissary goods to nearly 12 million customers in military communities around the world.
General Dynamics Corp. will furnish a variety of information management services to the Interior Department under a task order potentially worth $10.5 million over five years.
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.
The Homeland Security Department is still undecided about pursuing a biometric system at airports to verify that non-U.S. citizens leave when required.
NIST is hosting the first of an important series of meetings next week as a first step toward developing a national road map to digital record preservation.
Northrop Grumman Corp. will help the Office of Personnel Management electronically convert and store federal employee records under a follow-on five-year blanket purchase agreement that could be worth as much as $100 million.
We are now well into the exabyte-per-year era of data (1 billion gigabytes), with predictions that the size of the digital universe will double every 18 months. How do you store all of that data, let alone find ways to manage it so you can retrieve it and make use of it?
The Homeland Security Department is feeding some errors into federal procurement databases, according to an audit by DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner.
L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. will assist the Commonwealth of Kentucky in creating a secure driver’s license under a six-year contract that could be worth approximately $33.7 million.
Unisys Corp. will work with the government of Mexico and the Mexican communications company Axtel to develop an advanced national biometric identification system under a three-year contract valued at $50 million.
On the heels of the United Kingdom's launch of its own version of Data.gov comes a new site developed by The Guardian newspaper that provides access to online government data sites from around the world.
Science Applications International Corp. will provide technical support to the Veterans Affairs Department under a five-year award that could be worth as much as $14 million.
Vangent Inc. will make it easier for Defense Department health care providers to access patient records and other data through a $20 million contract. The DOD award calls for Vangent to build an integrated single sign-on and context management capability throughout the Military Health System.
Computer Sciences Corp. has begun work on a five-year, $7.25 million contract to replace Los Angeles’ current e-mail and other applications with Google’s Web-based productivity tools.
Deltek Inc. has acquired mySBX, an online community that helps government contractors to rapidly identify opportunities, manage resources and expand their business. The financial terms were not reported.
