With Linux enjoying great use and acceptance with overseas governments, the open-source software's popularity is expected to increase in the United States, said experts that gathered at a forum today sponsored by Red Hat Inc.
A company founded by Albert Edmonds, retired Air Force general and former president of EDS Corp.'s government business, makes its first acquisition since being founded in September.
Stacks of paper, hand-written notes and days of computer down time were all a part of the Marine Corps' old system of assigning and moving personnel from duty to duty.
Designed to have thousands of systems run on it, the Defense Department's new enterprise architecture will usher in what some people are calling the biggest IT transition ever done.
Telos Corp. won a three-year contract for IT security compliance and risk management services to Washington Headquarters Services, company officials said.
Oracle Corp., SAP AG and Siebel Systems Inc. have joined a federation of technology companies that are designing and developing the EDS Agile Enterprise Platform.
UPDATED: Computer Sciences Corp. and Raytheon Technical Services Co. win systems development and integration contracts with the Patent and Trademark Office, allowing the two companies to compete for work at the agency, officials at the Patent Office said.
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received about $36 million worth of orders to provide its Applique Computer Systems for the Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program.
The U.S. Marine Corps recently awarded a $35.8 million contract to a Chantilly, Va., firm to train pilots to escape from aircraft and amphibious vehicles that crash into the ocean.
RFID and wireless security technologies will get a big push in 2005, thanks to developments that likely will spur new investment and growth in both areas.
Science Applications International Corp. won a five-year, $49.9 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico to develop techniques and approaches for high-power microwave components and systems.
RS Information Systems Inc. in McLean, Va., has realigned its senior management with majority owner and co-founder Rodney Hunt adding the role of chief operating officer to his chairman and CEO duties.
