Lockheed wins Aegis work on foreign ships

Lockheed Martin has won a $260 million contract from the Navy to install next-generation Aegis Weapon Systems onboard three Australian destroyers and a Spanish F-100 class frigate.

ITAA urges Congress to enact patent reform

The ITAA warned Congress today that the U.S. patent system is broken and needs to be fixed because it is keeping America's small businesses from realizing their innovative potential.

SRA tapped to integrate data for Marine Corps

SRA International Inc. has been awarded a five-year, $33.3 million contract from the Marine Corps to provide information technology services for a digital work environment.

ACS snares Labor BPO deal

Affiliated Computer Services won a contract from the Labor Department to process medical bills for its Office of Workers' Compensation Programs.

Report: Fed homeland security spending increases are modest since 2002

Federal spending on homeland security grew substantially as a share of gross domestic product in the year following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Since 2002, however, agency outlays have increased only modestly, a new survey finds.

The doctor is in

MDs get the call as integrators build health care businesses.

Survey: Professional services dominate federal buying

In an era of tight federal budgets, a new survey shows that procurement spending is no longer linked to budget fluctuations and that professional services and information technology dominate government buying.

LaVigne named president of Apptis

<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color> Apptis Inc. announced today that Rene LaVigne will serve as president and chief operating officer following the abrupt departure of president and CEO Steve Baldwin on Wednesday.

CSC resumes AF expeditionary combat system work

Computer Sciences Corp. has started work again on the $628 million Air Force Expeditionary Combat Support System task order awarded in September.

Westwood Computer re-brands as Emtec Federal

Westwood Computer Corp., a federal systems integrator, has changed its name to Emtec Federal to more closely identify with parent company Emtec Inc.

Apogen hangs on to IRS support work

Apogen Technologies has won a $5.4 million contract renewal from the Treasury Department to continue providing operations and maintenance services to the IRS.

QNA closes Analex buy

QinetiQ North America has completed its acquisition of Analex Corp.

BearingPoint wins $218M USAID Afghanistan deal

BearingPoint Inc. won a contract from the Agency for International Development to help prop up and boost government and educational services in Afghanistan.

DIA re-ups GTSI for Microsoft enterprise support

GTSI has won a three-year, $16.5 million Microsoft Enterprise Agreement contract renewal from the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Contracts with a kick

Keeping a close eye, Bob Bratt of Unisys and other contractors are tracking the latest contracts from civilian agencies.

General Dynamics wins Navy network engineering task

General Dynamics has won a task order from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division to manage the center's Aircraft Carrier Distributed Data and Control Network and the Navigation Critical Distribution System.

StreamBase fills sails with In-Q-Tel investment

In-Q-Tel, the private venture capital firm created by the CIA, made a strategic investment this month in StreamBase Systems, a provider of high-performance complex event processing software.

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Lockheed scores $311M optical electronics deal

Lockheed has won a contract from the Army to produce the new Arrowhead electro-optical targeting and night-vision system for AH-64 Apache combat helicopter pilots.

OMB: Agencies show moderate progress on IT security

Federal agencies are improving in their efforts to secure the nation's information technology framework ? but only moderately so, according to OMB's fiscal 2006 report.