The Defense Information Systems Agency is yanking a $400 million contract from Global Crossing Ltd. after the four losing bidders protested the award, according industry sources.
Titan Corp. announced Aug. 10 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Titan Systems Corp., won a Naval Air Systems Command contract potentially worth $83 million over five years.
IBM Corp. and Qwest Communications International Inc. were chosen to support the National Science Foundation's three-year $53 million grid computing project.
For Computer Sciences Corp., winning the National Security Agency's huge Groundbreaker outsourcing contract has been like catching a tiger by the tail.
Have we seen the worst of the commercial IT spending slowdown? Based on second quarter reports and the outlook for information technology services companies for the second half of the year, the answer is yes and no.
At a time when many young companies are struggling to survive in the highly competitive state and local government market, GovConnect Inc. has not only found a firm toehold, it has managed to thrive.
The bilingual Canadian military has faced a unique challenge for most of its history: How do you make sure training manuals, documents and other written material say the same thing in French as they do in English?
TRW Inc.won a seven-year, $564 million follow-on contract for Battle Management Command, Control and Communications products for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense Segment program by prime contractor Boeing.
IBM Corp. won a contract to provide key technologies and support for an experimental National Grid network initiative undertaken by the United Kingdom.
Anteon Corp. has sold its subsidiary Interactive Media Corp. to Form Inc., an affiliate of Pearson Publishing UK. Joseph Kampf, president and chief executive officer of Anteon, said the sale of the division furthered the company's concentration on its core market, the federal government.
With its planned purchase of Lockheed Martin IMS, Affiliated Computer Services Inc. moves from being a strong player in key state and local government niches to a broad-based integrator that can now reach big states and across large, complex projects.
Middleware, Larry Ellison said, is a "nitwit idea." Ellison, Oracle Corp.'s chairman and chief executive officer, was referring to the software that links legacy and other database systems with more advanced Internet applications and computer systems.
A public-private job competition at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas was so riddled with errors that the Air Force should consider holding a new competition, the Pentagon inspector general has concluded.
The concept of companies working together to deliver products or services isn't new. What's changing, however, is the nature and scope of corporate alliance arrangements, reflecting the explosion of this business tool across nearly all industry categories.
