A new report projects federal spending on information technology outsourcing services will increase from $6.6 billion to nearly $15 billion by fiscal 2007.
After 66 years under the aegis of the Illinois Institute of Technology, the non-profit consulting company IIT Research Institute has spun off into a new, employee-owned business.
Anne Reed, former president of Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s state and local government group, is joining the research and consulting company Acquisition Solutions Inc.
A contract worth more than $12 million to provide services to the Army Corps of Engineers is up for grabs for a second time, after the General Accounting Office sustained a protest filed by ITT Federal Services.
Qwest Communications International Inc. and TKC Communications LLC, an Alaska Native corporation, have been awarded a joint multi-year contract to build a high-speed network for secure communications among NASA facilities throughout the United States.
Raytheon Co. is acquiring two companies to strengthen its portfolio of integrated communications technologies in the first acquisitions the company has made in four years.
The General Services Administration is combining some operations of the Federal Technology Service with the Federal Supply Service, including moving IT contracts from FTS to FSS.<br>
Dynamics Research Corp. is acquiring Andrulis Corp., an Arlington, Va., provider of information technology and engineering services to government customers in a $26 million deal.<br>
Electronic Data Systems Corp. is due to get the official thumbs up within the next week to take over another 100,000 seats under the-Navy Marine Corps Intranet project. <BR>
Sources say Alan Balutis, the executive director of the Industry Advisory Council and the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils, is negotiating with the groups to be bought out of the remaining year of his contract.<br>
Unisys Corp. picked Sabre Holdings Corp.'s resource management system to help in scheduling the Transportation Security Administration's passenger and baggage screening operations.
Integic Corp. has realigned its organization into five areas to better position itself with the federal government's procurement structure reorganization.
The purchase of TRW Inc. by Northrop Grumman Corp. is a "capstone acquisition," the CEO says, and most likely signals an end to the company's aggressive purchasing streak.<br>
AT&T Corp. won a State Department contract to help ensure strategic international communication services are available to about 50 federal agencies in more than 250 countries around the world.<br>
<FONT SIZE=2>Officially called the National Distress and Response System Modernization Project, Rescue 21 is the equivalent of a 911 emergency system for boaters. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>When L&E Associates learned about the Coast Guard's Rescue 21 modernization effort to upgrade its 30-year-old search and rescue communications system, the company was determined to find a way to be a part of it.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>The White House has no plans to relax its control over the budget process that many in government view as a power grab by the Office of Management and Budget.</FONT>
