Science Applications International Corp. has sold a suite of decision support products to Idea Sciences Inc. SAIC originally acquired the technology through its 2000 purchase of Leadership 2000 Inc.
The Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project is beginning to hamper the ability of some Navy installations to plan and budget for their information technology costs, according to a new report by the General Accounting Office.
The federal information technology marketplace will be filled with contract opportunities during the next two years, but contractors seeking success in the rapidly growing market must focus on meeting individual agencies' needs rather than selling their own strengths.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>With companies throughout the nation under intense scrutiny for financial reporting, one federal contractor is finding that even a seemingly minor misstatement regarding subcontract work can touch off repercussions, whether with a partner, a customer or Wall Street analysts.</FONT>
As part of the $1.23 million biometrics research and development support task order, Unisys and the Defense Department will be working on improving identification of individuals from a database of two-dimensional photographs.
Computer Sciences Corp. won a contract to support the National Institutes of Health in modernizing and expanding its medical information systems. The $32 million agreement, announced Oct. 24, is for one year and has five one-year options.
Computer Sciences Corp. has issued a correction concerning a $50 million subcontract that it said six weeks ago it had been awarded. In a statement to Washington Technology, the company said the press release it issued Sept. 10 regarding work for Unisys in support of the Transportation Security Administration "was incorrect" and should have stated that CSC had entered into a teaming agreement with Unisys.
Science Applications International Corp. has been chosen by the National Security Agency to carry out the technology demonstration platform phase of the Trailblazer program, the NSA's modernization of its signals intelligence capabilities.
<FONT SIZE=2>Since Unisys Corp. announced Aug. 19 that it won the $1 billion Information Technology Management Services contract to create the IT infrastructure for the Transportation Security Administration, the company has been inundated with proposals from vendors interested in slicing off their own piece of the pie.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>	Whatever the White House's new draft cybersecurity plan lacked in specific requirements for the private sector, it more than made up for in proposed spending to improve security at federal agencies.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Soon after New Year's Day, a Boeing Co. 737-400 research and test airplane will take off from Seattle. The plane, called Connexion One, will carry equipment to test satellite-based communications systems for air traffic management.</FONT>
Mecklenburg County, N.C., picked PEC Solutions Inc. to implement an integrated criminal justice information system. The $17.4 million contract is the second part of a three-stage program. The first phase, already awarded and finished by Fairfax, Va.-based PEC, was to develop a conceptual design for the system. The second phase is for deploying the system throughout Mecklenburg County.
The General Accounting Office has dismissed protests of a controversial networking contract award to WorldCom Inc., deciding it should not get caught up in the legal maneuvers surrounding WorldCom's alleged financial misconduct and other potential legal woes. The government watchdog agency decided "the totality of circumstances make it inappropriate ... to review this matter."
SI International Inc. will provide personnel administration and human resources automated systems operations to support the military personnel services mission of the Army Garrison at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
