BearingPoint Inc., McLean, Va., and Veridian Corp., Arlington, Va., have each won a spot on a $123 million contract to provide engineering and program management services for Navy aircraft.
A total of 450 fingerprint scanners and associated software have been ordered by the Defense Manpower Data Center from Identix Inc., Minnetoka, Minn., the company announced Dec. 26. The company did not disclose terms of the sale.
Cray Inc., Seattle, won a $16.4 million contract to provide a supercomputer system and support to the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. Cray will install its newly released X1 supercomputer system in stages through 2003. The company will also provide maintenance for other Cray supercomputers already owned by the center.
DynCorp., Reston, Va., won a contract worth up to $85 million to provide operations, maintenance and logistic support for the Navy's Southern California Offshore Range.
President Bush's decision Dec. 17 to begin fielding missile defense platforms by 2004 or 2005 creates expanded opportunity for information technology companies. "This is extremely significant for the IT community. These types of platforms always have an inordinate amount of IT built into them," said Ray Bjorklund, a vice president with IT research and consulting firm Federal Sources Inc
<FONT SIZE=2>Ask Verle Hammond about logistics, and he replies: "Steaks and ice cream."</font><!--/STORY--><!--STORY--><FONT SIZE=2>Before founding Innovative Logistics Techniques Inc. in 1989, Hammond spent 28 years as a logistics officer for the Army, rising to the position of staff officer for the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics. Most memorable, however, was his tour of duty in Vietnam, where he was assigned to the First Infantry Division in 1966 and 1967.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>When a variant of the infamous Klez virus, called Klex, wormed its way through e-mailboxes last April, it didn't creep into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And when a little-known buffer overflow in the Solaris operating system came to light last June, no hacker could have exploited it to compromise a CDC system. That's because the agency's servers were already patched.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>When NASA teamed with the Coast Guard to demonstrate mobile Internet networking in Cleveland last month, more than 100 people braved the cold and wind at a Lake Erie harbor to watch Coast Guard commanders wirelessly send information between ship and shore.</FONT>
The beta version of a new security command center software that Computer Associates International released Dec. 9 will give integrators an early glimpse of how it can be used in the government market.
The assets of bankrupt network services provider Genuity Inc., Woburn, Mass., which counts as its customers the Defense Department and state agencies, are being acquired by Level 3 Communications Inc., Broomfield, Colo.<br>
IBM Corp.'s purchase of Rational Software Corp. will strengthen IBM's presence in the government market, particularly in regards to enterprise architecture, an IBM executive says.
Dan Porter, retiring at the Navy's CIO, will join government contractor Vredenburg Co. to help expand its presence in key markets, such as homeland security and information management. <br>
