GTSI Corp., Chantilly Va., has won a three-year blanket purchase agreement worth up to $28 million to supply the Marine Corps with ruggedized notebook computers, the company announced Sept. 11.
A new methodology of evaluating IT investments has allowed Veterans Affairs to save $30 million, according to a case study released by the Federal Chief Information Officers Council.
While the new concept of grid computing has started to flourish in the academic community, officials with IBM Corp. already are eyeing corporate and government applications that could follow recent experimental projects the company has won.
Radio ads are touting trade-in deals for government legacy systems ... Busy federal contracting officers receive "survival kits" filled with snacks and supplies ... Airplanes pull advertising banners across the hazy Washington sky.
The pay system should be revamped for federal IT workers, according to a study commissioned by the CIO Council and the Administrative Office of the Courts.
Commercial Linux vendor Red Hat Inc., Durham, N.C. wants to establish a non-profit organization that would introduce Linux and open source software to the education market.
SGI Federal Inc. and Linux NetworX Inc. won a $2 million contract to provide a Linux supercomputing cluster to the National Nuclear Security Administration.
In-Q-Tel Inc., the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm, has invested $30 million over the past two years in companies with promising technologies.
PeopleSoft Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., has licensed its PeopleSoft 8 human resources management system to the Defense Department to serve about 3.1 million military personnel worldwide.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has been chosen by the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a real-time systems recovery program for distributed command and control systems.
When NASA needed a foolproof way of controlling who entered its new Triana Science and Operations Center at the University of California in San Diego, it went for fingerprint-based access.
Qwest Communications International Inc. has been awarded a contract to supply Maryland with fiber-optic backbone-level Internet access for the "Network Maryland" project.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded $45 million contract to develop a Navy battlefield analysis system, called Coastal Battlefield Reconnaissance and Analysis.
IBM Corp. and Qwest Communications International Inc. were chosen to support the National Science Foundation's three-year $53 million grid computing project.
Canada's ambitious plan to be the world's most-connected government is expected to generate billions of dollars of work for systems integrators and other information technology contractors.
