The Defense Information Systems Agency hired three small businesses to help the agency move, monitor and secure the Net-Centric Enterprise Services program as it migrates to the Web.
For the second time in less than a year, the Army is restructuring its Future Combat Systems program, this time on the heels of sharp criticism from legislators and an unflattering report by the Government Accountability Office.
Nortel Networks Federal Solutions division won a $20 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to improve the control and responsiveness of the Defense Switched Network.
The department will receive beta patches before they are officially released to test the programs in environments, configurations and against applications.
KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche are among a score of contractors the DOD hopes can help the department improve its financial record-keeping.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a $199 million blanket purchase agreement to integrate the Army's field logistics system with its national logistics system.
President Bush has designated Raymond F. DuBois, former deputy Defense undersecretary for installations and environment, as acting undersecretary of the Army.
In a move the Army said reflects changes in how it provides equipment to warfighters, the service has realigned three communications and electronics organizations at Fort Monmouth, N.J., to form the Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command.
The Defense Department lost its chief champion for change yesterday when retired Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski stepped down from his job as director of the force transformation ? but not before he finished and signed the Future Force Architecture document and shipped it off to Congress.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency have released a specification to standardize IT security checklists.
