SAIC completes purchase of vehicle-scanning firm

Science Applications International Corp. has completed its acquisition of Spectrum San Diego, a high-technology security firm specializing in ultra-low-dose X-ray scanning systems.

Vistronix will verify State software applications

Vistronix Inc. will improve the verification systems of the State Department under a contract that has a potential value of $37 million.

Booz Allen aids Air Force space launch efforts

Booz Allen Hamilton will provide engineering and integration services to the Air Force under a $38.4 million contract.

Northrop will provide program support to Marine Corps

Northrop Grumman Corp. has received a $7 million task order from the Navy to provide business operations and program management support to the Marine Corps.

SafeNet nets Assured Decisions to boost cybersecurity offerings

SafeNet Inc., a provider of information security, has acquired Assured Decisions LLC, a professional consulting service to the government’s cyber security community. Financial terms of the transaction were not reported.

Paradigm upgrades Archives emergency plans software

Paradigm Holdings Inc. will provide continuity of operations and emergency management software support for the National Archives and Records Administration under a $1.3 million contract.

Gallaway joins CACI to boost national security offerings

CACI International Inc. has hired Charles Gallaway, former acting director of the Homeland Security Department’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, as a vice president to support the company’s national security strategies.

States and local agencies take to clouds, report finds

State and local governments will adopt cloud computing, virtualization, service-oriented architecture, open-source software and geospatial technologies at an accelerating rate over the next five years, according to a new Input report.

ManTech buys Army contractor STI

ManTech International Corp. will pay $242 million in cash to acquire Sensor Technologies Inc., a provider of systems engineering and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services for the Defense Department.

NCI to deploy array of IT services at Army garrisons

NCI Inc. has won a seven-year, $309 million task order to provide the Army with a wide array of information technology services at several military installations around the country.

CACI serves DOD with range of technology support

CACI International Inc. will provide a range of technological support services to the Defense Department under a two-year, $24 million task order.

Dell-Perot merger showing quick benefits, officials say

Five weeks after Dell Co. acquired Perot Systems Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion, officials at Dell say the integration has gone smoothly with no turf wars and a new batch of contract opportunities.

Vangent hastens access to DOD medical records

Vangent Inc. will make it easier for Defense Department health care providers to access patient records and other data through a $20 million contract. The DOD award calls for Vangent to build an integrated single sign-on and context management capability throughout the Military Health System.

CSC wins $21M Alliant task order from EEOC

Computer Sciences Corp. will provide managed services to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under a seven-year, $21 million task order.

CSC builds cloud for Los Angeles city workers

Computer Sciences Corp. has begun work on a five-year, $7.25 million contract to replace Los Angeles’ current e-mail and other applications with Google’s Web-based productivity tools.

Deltek purchases mySBX to strengthen services offerings

Deltek Inc. has acquired mySBX, an online community that helps government contractors to rapidly identify opportunities, manage resources and expand their business. The financial terms were not reported.

New rule on task-order protests not causing problems, panel says

Officials instrumental in the creation of the year-old federal task-order protest rule say the new regulation has caused few problems and resulted in only a small increase in the number of cases sent to the Government Accountability Office for adjudication.

A-T Solutions shuffles its executive team

A-T Solutions Inc. CEO Ken Falke will step down from that role to become the company’s chairman of the board effective Jan. 1. Chief Operating Officer Dennis Kelly will be promoted to president and CEO.

New collaboration tools manufacture good ideas

Imaginatik brings its online collaboration tools to the government market to aid brainstorming and focus on innovative solutions.

mySBX.com: The Match.com of government contractors

mySBX has created a Web site that connects primes and subs in a government contracting version of online dating.