EDS Corp. and the Navy yesterday signed two contract modifications on the $8.82 billion Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program that reduce the number of service-level agreements and allow EDS to begin billing 100 percent for each seat in the huge project.
Orbimage Inc. of Dulles, Va., won a four-year, $500 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to supply tools for gathering high-resolution images from commercial satellites.
In revised acquisition strategy for $10 billion Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program, Army picks General Dynamics Corp. as the prime contractor and Lockheed Martin Corp. as major subcontractor.
The Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. recently won contracts totaling $105 million and the chance to battle it out in the presystem development and demonstration phase of the Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System.
The National Reconnaissance Office has chosen Harris Corp. to provide operations, maintenance and support services for the agency's global communications and information systems.
Army is expected to pick General Dynamics as prime contractor and Lockheed Martin as principal subcontractor for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program.
EDS Corp.'s embattled Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project is undergoing significant changes to improve its management and operation. But despite the criticism leveled at EDS by Congress and its customers on the $8.8 billion program, Navy brass remain committed to it.
