Chicago has given Unisys Corp. a three-year contract extension, worth about $34 million, for outsourcing services to manage the city's distributed information technology infrastructure.
Sprint Communications Corp. is preparing to offer government customers a new IP-based intranet solution designed to meet the growing security and performance needs of federal and state agencies.
Government agencies are making less use of contracts awarded through open competition and more use of General Services Administration schedules, according to a new market-research study.
It will be at least June before the new Homeland Security Department is in a position to begin spending money on new information technology initiatives, the department's CIO says.
The sudden departure of Richard Brown, chairman and chief executive of EDS, should not have any impact on the company's government unit, a company spokeswoman says.
<FONT SIZE=2>The Transportation Security Administration and Pearson Government Solutions, which recruited thousands of airport passenger screeners for the agency, have come under fire following a report that Pearson recruiters indulged in posh -- and unnecessary -- accommodations at a resort in Colorado. TSA and Pearson officials vigorously disputed the charges.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>The decision by the White House to eliminate the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and fold its responsibilities into the new Department of Homeland Security is raising concerns that cybersecurity is losing the attention of the Bush administration.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>	AT&T Corp. is connecting 14 government buildings on Capitol Hill to a newly expanded local fiber network in order to compete for the phone, data, video and broadband business at the Senate, House, General Accounting Office and other locations. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>U.S. military ships riding at anchor in the Persian Gulf are loaded with the equipment, fuel and supplies needed by the Marine Corps to fight in Iraq. But the people carrying out the day-to-day operations on the Marines' prepositioning ships are not sailors or Marines, but employees of Honeywell International Inc.</FONT>
Reliable Integration Services Inc. has been picked as a subcontractor to provide information technology support for networking more than 400 commercial airports for the Transportation Security Administration.
AT&T Corp.'s government unit won a $180 million Internal Revenue Service contract to provide toll-free phone services for the 130 million calls made each year to the IRS.
Anteon International Corp. has been awarded a five-year blanket purchase agreement worth up to $10 million by the Defense Department's Office of the Comptroller.
