Patriot Technologies Inc. and the Defense Department have signed an enterprise software agreement that offers military agencies discounted pricing on the company's information assurance products and services.
The transformational programs that are helping the Defense Department build its Global Information Grid are being mismanaged in a stovepiped manner, with no one held accountable for results.
The Defense Information Systems Agency has notified vendors that the deadline to receive proposals for its $13 billion Encore II Information Technology Solutions contracts has been extended indefinitely.
The Worldwide Satellite Systems program will bring turnkey commercial satellite systems and associated support services for satellite terminals, including all hardware, software, services and data to operate the terminals.
Common radios and wavelengths are the first steps to preventing the kind of communication problems that reduced senior military leaders to sending runners to relay messages between bases and posts during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to Adm. Thomas F. Hall.
A Defense Department acquisition panel has concluded that the department has no reliable method of determining what items need to be procured for its programs, what they will cost, when they will be delivered or how they will perform.
Data Systems Analysts Inc. of Fairfax, Va., has won a $44 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency for software and systems engineering services.
Under the five-year contract vehicle, contractors will provide a range of distance training services ranging from online, interactive courseware to traditional classroom instructional materials.
DISA is looking for collaboration tools that are scalable, accessible from any commonly used desktop configuration and available through a Web browser interface to support its Net-Centric Enterprise Services program.
Under a $1.3 million software and services contract, the Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services will use ProSight's Portfolios software to better structure IT projects and investments.
Computer Sciences Corp. has been awarded a $243 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to provide engineering and technical support to MDA's Ground-based Midcourse Defense Joint Program Office.
John G. Grimes, the former vice president of Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, replaces Linton Wells, who had served as acting CIO and assistant secretary for networks and information.
The Pentagon has named Army Maj. Gen. Carlos D. Pair as its lead business systems acquisition executive for the recently formed Business Transformation Agency.