In the 10 months after Electronic Data Systems Corp. won the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project, the company had installed only the first five seats in the program, as the Navy and Congress took a cautious approach to the massive outsourcing effort. But following the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, the Navy used the NMCI program to quickly provide computer service to displaced personnel.
In the 10 months after Electronic Data Systems Corp. won the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project, the company had installed only the first five seats in the program, as the Navy and Congress took a cautious approach to the massive outsourcing effort. But following the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, the Navy used the NMCI program to quickly provide computer service to displaced personnel.
Satellite phone service providers such as Globalstar LP have long struggled to gain marketshare in a field glutted by cheaper cellular phone services. Last month, for instance, Globalstar laid off half its work force, reducing its ranks to 175 people.
Two surveys say 82 percent of Americans are willing to have their fingerprints scanned for increased airport security, and 86 percent favor facial-recognition technology to scan for suspected terrorists.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department wanted its deputies to get out of their cars and interact directly with the community. But to do this effectively, officers would have to take their computers with them, and that meant building a mobile communications network.
SRA International Inc., Fairfax Va., has been awarded an eight-year contract worth up to $50 million to support a nationwide training telecommunications network for the National Guard Bureau.
Security holes in agency computer systems still place operations and assets at risk for fraud, misuse and disruption, according to a top General Accounting Office official.
KPMG Consulting Inc. and Titan Systems Corp. have each won a blanket purchase agreement for program management support services for the Army Program Executive Office for Standard Army Management Information Systems.
Titan Corp. is acquiring BTG Inc. in a $141.9 million deal designed to strengthen Titan's presence in the defense and intelligence markets. With the acquisition, Titan Systems will have nearly $1.3 billion in revenue next year, including approximately $1 billion from government IT services, said Gene Ray, chairman, president and CEO.
Analytic software provider Informatica Corp., Palo Alto, Calif., is providing the U.S. Geological Survey with a data integration platform to extract and integrate data on water resources analysis.
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s plan to buy Compaq Computer Corp. is good news for GTSI Corp., according to GTSI's chief executive Dendy Young. The merger, said Young, would help his company better compete against what he called "the Dell threat."
Government information technology sellers responded to the recovery efforts of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the best way they knew how: by offering the services and equipment that are their mainstays. In the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, many IT companies set up relief funds and made donations to the Red Cross. But many also freely gave of their core services.
Hensel Phelps Construction Co. has won a contract, initially worth $145 million, to rebuild portions of the Pentagon damaged in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
Key operations in the Department of Education's central automated processing system are at risk of disruption and unauthorized access, according to a report by the General Accounting Office.
