Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. will split $105 million in contracts over 15 months while battling it out in the pre-system development and demonstration phase of the Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System, which is jointly managed by the Air Force and Navy.
A new security specification for wireless networking incorporates the Advanced Encryption Standard, opening the door for certification under the Federal Information Processing Standard.
The federal government's spending on information technology will slow down over the next five years, but the impact on IT contractors will be minimal, according to London market research firm Datamonitor plc.
The Northern Virginia Technology Council honored CACI International Inc. with the the "Hottest M&A Deal" of the year award for its purchase of the Defense and Intelligence Group of American Management Systems Inc. The award, part of NVTC's Hot Ticket Awards, was presented at a July 15 ceremony.
The top 10 companies on this year's Washington Technology Top 100 list were recognized at a lunch at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner in McLean, Va., July 15.
Aug. 3-6 Naval-Industry R&D Partnership conference, naval research in the 21st century, dilemmas and solutions, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington.
Robert Webber joined DynTek Inc. as the Irvine, Calif., company's chief financial officer. The company cited his experience in strategic planning in the IT sector as a good fit for its mergers and acquisitions strategy.
Last year, I predicted that this would be a good year for 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch and router manufacturers because of the growing demand for high-bandwidth connections in enterprise networks.
The Defense and Civilian Agency FAR Councils issued two sets of proposed regulations in July that promise significant long-term changes in federal IT procurement, although they may have only modest immediate impact.
Now that General Dynamics Corp. has won a lucrative piece of the military's multibillion-dollar Joint Tactical Radio System program, the defense contractor is looking to garner more radio-related work for network-centric warfare from the Defense Department.
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service will combine its service development and service delivery offices into a single Office of Global Network Solutions in two to three months, said John Johnson, assistant commissioner for service delivery at FTS.
The General Services Administration will wait until December to release its draft request for proposals for the $10 billion Networx telecommunications and network services contract ? a delay of three months.
The Agriculture Department's National Financial Center is looking for a vendor to provide support services for implementing Extensible Markup Language publishing extensions to its electronic publishing system.
It was at least six years ago that Ken Buck of the General Services Administration began touting the virtues of share-in-savings contracting as a tool for federal IT acquisitions. The concept has been popular among the states, allowing governments to build systems with little upfront expense. The contractors get paid from the money saved or from new revenue generated once the new system is in place.
In the past 18 months, Microsoft has overhauled its public-sector group, added government experts and begun working with systems integrators to win contracts.
When city officials in the nation's capital decided to build an interoperable wireless network for first responders, they adopted an approach that had barely been tested commercially, much less in government.
