General Dynamics Corp. has won a $36.6 million contract from the Navy to provide engineering and technical services and production for the multi-purpose processor program for submarines.
Electronic Data Systems Corp. has won a $300 million seat management contract for services to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, taking the contract away from incumbent Unisys Corp.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a 10-year, $1.7 billion Local Service Provider contract from the United Kingdom's National Health Service to build and operate an integrated patient care record system.
<font color="CC0000"> UPDATED </font>The General Accounting Office has sustained a Lockheed Martin Corp. protest of an IT services contract award, worth $860 million, from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to EDS.
SI International Inc. is buying Matcom International Corp., a deal that will give it more information technology and engineering services capabilities.
Working with the Air Force, Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a new way for airborne weapons systems to swap data with ground-based communications networks and other airborne platforms.
	For months, the telecommunications industry has been waiting to learn whether WorldCom Inc. will be debarred from government procurements because of problems with its accounting practices and record-breaking bankruptcy.
Washington revolves around relationships. Knowing the right people and belonging to the right organizations are critical to getting business done. <b>Steve Charles</b>, executive vice president of immixGroup Inc., wants to join the Coalition for Government Procurement, a well-connected industry group representing companies that hold contract schedules with the General Services Administration. The coalition's close ties with GSA make it a key organization for schedule-holders such as immixGroup. But the coalition won't let immixGroup join, Charles said.
HJ Ford, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynamics Research Corp., has won prime contracts totaling $24.6 million for advisory and assistance services to the Aeronautical Systems Center and Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has won an order from the State Department to design and demonstrate a fully secure and integrated messaging and archiving system.
James Kane, president of Federal Sources Inc. since June 2000, has left the company effective Dec. 8, just 45 days after it was acquired by Washington Management Group.
The Homeland Security Department has released interim acquisition regulations governing how it will perform procurements and establishing a mentor-protégé program.
Impact Innovations Group has won a $42 million contract by the National Security Agency to help the agency comply with the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model best practices.
The Defense Department, NASA and the General Services Administration have jointly proposed changing the Federal Acquisition Regulation to overhaul the database that tracks companies excluded from federal procurements.<br>
