Federal prosecutors in Boston filed a civil complaint today against Dynamics Research Corp. seeking penalties and damages arising from a kickback scheme carried out by two former DRC vice presidents.
A new report warns that the government's planned effort to overhaul its border controls could easily run over budget and suffer lengthy delays, but that isn't scaring off contractors eyeing the big-ticket project. "What we saw, what we wanted to get on the record, was to make abundantly clear to everybody that this is fraught with risk. Get on top of it now, or face the consequences," said <b>Randall Hite</b>, GAO's director of information technology architecture and systems issues, who directed the report.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when authorities learned that seven of the 19 hijackers held Virginia driver's licenses, the state immediately moved to crack down on loopholes. Other states followed suit, and it appeared for a time that Congress would take steps to ensure the states could collaborate in preventing driver's license fraud.
Anteon Corp. has won a $3.6 million contract by the Homeland Security Department to deliver 1,000 optical stripe read/write drives and biometric verification systems.
Raytheon Co. has won a three-year contract extension worth more than $32 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
Computer Sciences Corp. will develop ship-handling simulators and provide enhanced instructional support under a task order from the Navy Program Executive Officer for Integrated Warfare Systems.
Ingenium Corp. won a $7.6 million, four-year contract from the Air Force Material Command to support the agency's enterprise system management program.
The General Services Administration has put together a four-step plan to improve procurement oversight and training at regional Federal Technology Service offices.
In his debut speech as director of the new Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, David Bolka asked a packed house to help the agency hire technology experts and leaders. "This is a great opportunity for recruitment," he said Monday.
Unisys Corp. won a six-year contract from the United Nations Development Programme to provide infrastructure and enterprise application management services.
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s planned purchase of Titan Corp. for $2.4 billion, the company's second major deal in less than two months, has turned up the heat in an already hot mergers and acquisition market.
	The General Services Administration is considering debarring Qwest Communications Inc. because of the indictment of four former employees and an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Anteon International Corp. has won a three-year, $30.9 million contract to support the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, 9th Army Signal Command's 160th Signal Brigade.
Dennis Fischer, former commissioner of the Federal Technology Service of the General Services Administration and most recently a vice president of Visa USA, will serve as the firm's director for government innovation.
Northrop Grumman Corp. won a contract from InDyne Inc. of McLean, Va., to support the Air Force Space Command's Western Range operations, communications and information at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Sprint Corp. has been awarded a six-month contract by the Defense Department to manage tactical communications systems for Air Force bases in Southwest Asia.
