ManTech wins Army field support work for Afghanistan

ManTech International Corp. has won a $27.7 million contract from the Army Field Support Command to provide technical services for Afghanistan's property accountability program.

IBM chases San Diego County IT outsourcing deal with Accenture, SAIC

IBM Corp. has forged an alliance with Accenture Ltd. and Science Applications International Corp. to pursue San Diego County's outsourcing and telecommunications contract renewal

Four to compete for USAID work

Four companies won a five-year, $90 million contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to provide business systems modernization and strategic management consulting services.

Accenture snares $840 million Texas outsourcing deal

Accenture Ltd. has won a contract to operate the state's eligibility and enrollment systems for Medicaid, food stamp services and other assistance programs.

The really big picture

The hulking size of the multiple-petabyte Electronic Records Archive, when it becomes operational in 2007, does not seem to faze Project Director Kenneth Thibodeau.

Long live e-records!

A project to manage the miles of files at the National Archives will set the standard for all agencies

Nortel's launch pad for faster growth

PEC deal creates platform for more U.S. business

DRC engineers Marine Corps communications deal

Dynamics Research Corp. has won a $2.5 million contract from the Marine Corps to work on a secure, two-way communication solution.

AT&T unit gets Defense video work

AT&T Government Solutions won a 22-month, $26 million contract extension to continue providing video teleconferencing for the Defense Department.

GSA extends Networx deadlines

<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color>The General Services Administration pushes back its deadline by another 30 days for the lucrative Networx procurement.

Tech Success: Military girds for CYBERBATTLE

Defending its computer networks has evolved into one of the Defense Department's top priorities. And as computer systems ? and efforts to hack into them ? grow more sophisticated, efforts to defend military networks will grow even more assiduous.

Get ready to pitch for JHITS

The Defense Information Systems Agency today issued a request for proposals for the $300 million, Joint Hawaii Information Transfer Service contract for telecommunications services.

Northrop Grumman unit wins Navy CLIP contract

Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems was awarded the Common Link Integration Processing contract to develop common software and common-link processing for a joint Navy-Air Force program.

Martin: FCC must change to confront realities of new technologies

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission hinted that the agency might have to reorganize to better address the rapidly evolving technological landscape.

Agencies move to fine-tune emergency XML

A group of emergency management agencies and IT industry representatives, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, are moving to refine their Extensible Markup Language protocol for emergency public warnings.

AT&T unit takes on IP transition project

AT&T Government Solutions has won a contract to plan the move of the National Communications Systems' existing emergency telecommunications service onto a new Internet Protocol network.

Qwest taps Gowen as new senior vice president

Diana Gowen has been appointed as Qwest Communications International Inc.'s new senior vice president for government services and sales.

Market Share: Federal IT companies predict steady growth will continue

With the first quarter earnings season complete, most federal IT service companies reported at or above expectations and gave solid outlooks for the year, although a couple were cautious on the second quarter.

Sentinel system will replace FBI's Virtual Case File

The FBI is poised to launch the Sentinel program to build, among other things, a case management system to replace the defunct Virtual Case File project, officials said.