Computer Sciences Corp. won a $44 million contract from the Maryland State Highway Administration to help upgrade its statewide transportation management system.
To cope with an emergency, key government organizations, such as police, first responders and human services agencies, must be better able to communicate with each other, and they must have quick access to critical data. To meet these needs, many states are considering mobile disaster recovery equipment and solutions.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has won a one-year, $3.7 million contract extension from the Colorado Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing to continue helping administer the state's child health care program.
<font color="CC0000">(Updated) </font color> As part of a national effort to secure clear radio signals for public safety communications systems, the Georgia Technology Authority has hired Arinc Inc. of Annapolis, Md., to manage a two-year project to re-assign frequencies.
Looking to strengthen its network-centric offerings, L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. has acquired Nova Engineering Inc. for $45 million in an all-cash transaction.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color> The 20-year, multiple-award Field and Installation Readiness Support Team program to supply logistics support services to the Army and other Defense Department operations around the world now carries an estimated value of $36 billion.
Viisage Technology Inc. won a $10 million contract with the Defense Department for multimodal biometric devices that incorporate iris, finger and facial recognition technologies.
A future in which electronic health records are available in real time nationwide may be as much as a decade away, but states today are looking at how to use e-records to improve the citizens' health, track diseases and lower their health-care costs.
Losing out on small business set-aside contracts and plunging headlong into the mid-tier market is not necessarily an attractive proposition for some small businesses, industry analysts said.
After factoring in $12 billion in miscoding errors, said Democrats on the House Small Business Committee, just 21.6 percent of all federal prime contracts in fiscal 2005 went to small businesses. ? and more briefs
Large federal businesses preying on weaknesses in the Small Business Administration's contracting programs to win work intended for small companies could face more robust requirements intended to aid small businesses.
EDS Corp. won a $12.7 million contract renewal from the Arkansas Health and Human Services Department to serve as fiscal agent for the state's breast and cervical cancer treatment program.
Driven by major program integration and health IT initiatives, state and local government spending on health care and welfare IT is sharply on the rise.
In a move to bolster security around its driver's licenses, Washington awarded Digimarc Corp. a $10 million, three-year contract extension to upgrade the state's licenses and the processes and equipment used to create them.
For the sixth year in a row, the federal government failed to meet its goal of awarding 23 percent of all federal prime contracts to small businesses, according to House Democrats.
The line between fantasy and reality has blurred in the debate over adoption of radio frequency identification technology in the state and local government market.
