Distributor Pinacor Inc.'s new leading executive is focused on forming new alliances with suppliers, adding to the company's range of services and growing its outsourcing business.
Philip Angelides, California's new treasurer, is advocating bundling loans to minority small businesses in emerging markets as a way of funding community development.
Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Logicon unit has joined the contractor team working on the Joint Analytic Support Program for the Defense Supply Service in Washington.
DRS Technologies Inc.'s top executive is not letting a lagging stock price stop him from growing the Parsippany, N.J.-based company into a major supplier to government customers.
The year 2000 computer crisis is not turning into the gold rush many companies had expected, and the few that built profitable Y2K practices are switching gears to find a new niche.
Two weeks ago, I spent three days on the campus of Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Ariz. I attended classes, met with faculty and spoke with students through a media fellowship awarded by Thunderbird and managed by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Intergraph Corp. should step out of the red this year following a restructuring of the hardware, software and services company, and a legal decision that could boost its position in the workstation market, company officials said.
In a unique and seminal report prepared by the National Research Council last year, this statement appeared in the preface: Ò... there is little understanding of how to relate a seemingly strong and steady flow of new technology to the slower and more diffuse processes of assimilating new technology into the economy.Ó
Computer Associates International Inc. and Axent Technologies Inc. will gain key partnerships with systems integrators, new technologies and greater bulk in the federal government market with their planned acquisitions.
Among the varied sources of valuable information on the Internet from which channel members Ñ systems integrators, value-added resellers and applications developers Ñ can glimpse future business opportunities or develop a strategy for working with the government, one of the more interesting is the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. (FLC; www.federallabs.org).
AlcatelÕs proposed $2 billion acquisition of Xylan Corp. gives the networking company new punch in the federal market as it tries to expand, increase support services and compete with giants like Cisco, Lucent and 3Com, company officials said.
When Gary Sorkin and three co-founders started ComTeq Federal Inc. in 1994, they didnÕt expect to be shooting for $100 million in sales in their sixth year of operation.
With the fourth quarter earnings season almost over, publicly traded commercial and federal IT service companies have reported earnings generally in line with expectations.
With the fourth quarter earnings season almost over, publicly traded commercial and federal IT service companies have reported earnings generally in line with expectations.
