Personnel in the military services and agencies, as well as representatives from industry and academia, will receive invitations next week to participate in one of two teams that will ultimately make suggestions on overhauling the certification and accreditation processes across the intelligence community.
Milcom Systems Corp. was awarded a $108.7 million contract that could grow to $577 million if all options are exercised. Amsec LLC walked away with $58.9 million for the first year, with a ceiling of $312 million.
Ten companies were awarded contracts late Friday under the Army's $4 billion Infrastructure Modernization program that will update the fiber-optic cable and wireless communications lines at major bases and installations.
Eight large businesses and three small won spots on the contract and will now compete for task orders on the $20 billion IT Enterprise Solutions-2 Services program.
Other draft items for ITES-2H will be released over the next few days, with the final RFP package coming in about a week, according to an Army official.
Lockheed Martin's Integrated Systems and Solutions division will address fielding issues, perform system upgrades, conduct technology refreshes and ensure security layers are in place.
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a $32 million contract to Pearson KEI Inc. of Arlington, Va., for its Enterprise Business Modernization project.
The name change was done to prevent confusion between joint command and control, which is a well-known concept promoted across DOD, as well as the former name of the Defense Information Systems Agency's acquisition program.
The Navy granted EDS Corp. the extension after it was approved by members of the House Armed Services Committee. The service is expected to make an official announcement later today.
Version 3.1 addresses architecture gaps between intragovernmental transactions and within environmental safety and occupational health from the earlier 3.0 version.
The Defense Intelligence Agency feels that true interoperability must occur at the data level, instead of the system level. To this end, the agency is building a SOA with a set of common data standards that will use Web services, XML, meta-data tagging and other tools to ease collaboration.
Realizing that the next wave of government satellites will take years to develop and launch ? and even when they are launched, demand may exceed their capabilities ? the military now is reaffirming its need for commercial satellites.
Thomas Modly, deputy undersecretary of Defense for financial management, said the department's Business Transformation Agency has met 80 percent of its milestones.
The Defense Information Systems Agency's CIO and the Army's program executive officer for enterprise information systems would like to see speedier acquisitions of defense IT.
A memorandum from assistant secretary of the Navy Delores M. Etter essentially eliminates with the direct reporting program manager structure and moves four of the five DRPM program offices under program executive offices.
The Defense Interoperability Communication Exercise 2006 started last week to test communications equipment and systems for use among DOD services and agencies and with the Homeland Security Department and first responders.
The $439.3 billion Defense budget, released to Congress yesterday along with the Quadrennial Defense Review, proposes a 7 percent increase over the fiscal 2006 budget.
