General Dynamics Corp. is set to purchase Motorola Inc.'s Integrated Information Systems Group for $825 million in cash and assumption of certain liabilities and ongoing obligations.
NetCom Solutions International Inc. intends to announce Aug. 6 it has created a wholly owned subsidiary to provide its networking services and solutions to federal, state and local government customers.
The federal government needs to take far more extensive steps to protect its technology infrastructure, particularly to safeguard civil agencies as they try to pursue e-government initiatives, according to a report by the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association.
Jim Flyzik believes $300 million would be the right number to get federal e-government initiatives truly off the ground. But he also said the government doesn't need to budget the entire amount.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won the National Security Agency's Groundbreaker contract, a $2 billion-plus, 10-year information technology outsourcing project. NSA expects the contract to be fully operational in November, two months ahead of the original schedule.
Anteon Corp. has sold its subsidiary Interactive Media Corp. to Form Inc., an affiliate of Pearson Publishing UK. Joseph Kampf, president and chief executive officer of Anteon, said the sale of the division furthered the company's concentration on its core market, the federal government.
The Naval Air Warfare Center chose Eagan, McAllister Associates Inc. to support systems of the Air Traffic Control Systems Division in St. Inigoes, Md.
TRW Inc. got the green light from the Pentagon to deploy the $263.7 million Defense Travel System throughout the agency and across the services. TRW announced the system received a favorable review from a Defense Department panel, convened in February to assess performance issues that emerged during testing in October 2000.
The $350 million lawsuit filed July 17 against American Management Systems Inc. by a federal agency for alleged failure to perform is the latest in a string of legal conflicts, which are casting a pall on the company's operations.
When the news came in April that IBM Corp. was named prime contractor for the U.S. Customs Service's 15-year, $1.3 billion modernization contract, a lot of folks in government and industry took it to mean Big Blue was returning to the federal marketplace, years after selling off its government unit.
The Information Technology Association of America released guidelines to help federal customers of application service providers navigate the terms and conditions of service level agreements.
A unit of General Dynamics Corp. won a $2.4 billion contract to build the Bowman communications systems for the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence, the company announced July 19.
American Management Systems Inc. took a pounding on Wall Street the day after it was sued by one of its federal customers for $350 million for failure to perform. The company's stock dropped nearly 24 percent from $21.30 to $16.24 July 18 after the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board terminated a contract with AMS and filed suit against it.
The Bush administration is committed to expanding outsourcing of government services, said Mitch Daniels, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to an audience of federal services contractors.
PEC Solutions Inc. has been awarded contracts for engineering and operational support services for the Drug Enforcement Administration's global intranet.
