New York has put stringent measures in place to ensure contractor performance on its statewide wireless network, but the winning contractor is confident it can meet the demands of the massive project.
The back-to-back hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast this season are an object lesson on the importance of electronic medical records. Having electronic medical records might have cut the time needed to deliver health services to hurricane victims, and even reduced the cost of delivering those services, analysts and industry officials said.
BearingPoint Inc. has won a contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to help implement a broad program of economic, financial and private sector reform in Egypt.
DRS Technologies Inc. has won a contract to provide rugged Applique Computer Systems and peripheral equipment for the Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has won a one-year contract extension from the state's Department of Health Care Policy and Financing for the Child Health Plan Plus program.
CompuDyne-Public Safety and Justice Inc., a subsidiary of CompuDyne Corp., has acquired Xanalys Corp., a provider of crime-solving and data-sharing tools.
Alion Science and Technology has won a $60.7 million, three-year contract extension from the Defense Department to continue running its Weapons Systems Information Analysis Center.
AT&T Government Solutions won a five-year, $95 million contract to provide engineering and technical expertise to the Air Force's intelligence center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a contract to provide IT services to the Social Security Administration under its Electronic Disability Initiative National Scanning Project.
DRS Technologies has won $15 million in contracts to provide rugged Applique Computer Systems and peripheral equipment for the Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program.
Unisys Corp. has won a contract from the Federal Bureau of Prisons for nationwide deployment and operation of the next-generation federal inmate telephone system.
Companies specializing in driver's licensing and biometrics see rich opportunities in helping states comply with the Real ID Act passed earlier this year. But new opportunities may be slow to come, as states crunch cost estimates and wait for the federal government to offer guidance on how they should comply.
Accela Inc. has won a $1.2 million contract from Omaha, Neb., to provide a Web-based, integrated permitting, licensing and inspection management system.
Dynamics Research Corp. has won a $2.8 million contract from the Defense Department's Defense Modeling and Simulation Office and the Army Research Laboratory.
