Lucent Technologies Inc. won several contracts worth $36.3 million to provide network integration and professional services at Army installations in North America and Europe.
The Homeland Security Department and the Pentagon are the main drivers behind federal IT spending growth, but systems integrators can still expect to see the Office of Management and Budget exerting pressure to control spending.
The federal government's IT spending will grow at a compound annual rate of 4.5 percent through fiscal 2007, as total IT investments hit $68.3 billion that year, compared to $59.8 billion in fiscal 2004.
Cubic Corp. won a five-year, $71.4 million contract to produce and field simulated combat training systems for the Army, Army Reserve and National Guard.
Information security solutions company SecureInfo Corp. won a $4 million contract from the Homeland Security Department to provide certification and accreditation software solution and consulting services.
MTC Technologies Inc. won a prime contract for systems engineering and acquisition, test and evaluation, and configuration management services to the U.S. Transportation Command's Global Transportation Network Program Management Office.
SI International Inc. won an $11.5 million prime contract from the Air Force Space Command to support engineering, planning and programming for the Global Positioning System.
Enterprise Integration Inc. won a five-year, $40 million follow-on contract from the Army to provide management and monitoring support for the Army's plan to integrate its logistics processes.
E-government initiatives have been an effective tool for transforming government service, but they have failed to bring about the complete re-invention that many people expected during the early years, Accenture official says.
Representative from the federal government and the information technology industry yesterday unveiled a Web site to educate federal workers about the benefits of telecommuting and to calculate cost savings.
Hewlett-Packard Co. won a three-year, $6 million prime contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop technologies that will improve mission-critical computer networks used during combat and related operations.
With the telecommunications industry rapidly consolidating, cable television companies are starting to see opportunities to grab business in the federal market.
The General Services Administration's plan to reorganize the Federal Technology and Federal Supply services must go beyond the superficial merging of two organizations and improve the organization's overall value to agencies and industry, federal and private sector officials said.
