Many taxpayers dread the month of April when they must file their annual income-tax returns. But perhaps no one has more cause to shrink from the Internal Revenue Service these days than Computer Sciences Corp.
President Bush's fiscal 2005 budget reflects a slight shift away from creating new e-government projects to a focus on maintaining existing IT projects and shoring up network security, according to industry and government officials.
Although still awaiting government approvals, CACI International is on track to complete its acquisition of the defense assets of American Management Systems next month, an executive says.
Voice-over-Internet services will dominate the telecommunications industry and alter telecom policy in the United States over the next few years, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says.
Advanced Technology Systems Inc. won a five-year $12.3 million contract from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to provide software development lifecycle support.
Abacus Technology Corp. received a $10.7 million task order to supply technology enhancements for security systems at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
Lockheed Martin Corp. will open an office dedicated to homeland security, in advance of the government's award next month of a hotly chased, $10 billion contract to track the entry and exit of foreign visitors, the company said today.
The proposed $2.2-billion merger of defense IT giants Lockheed Martin Corp. and Titan Corp. has been thrown into jeopardy, with the deal now pending the outcome of a Justice Department inquiry into bribery allegations.
Paul Cofoni, president of government business for Computer Sciences Corp., said the company's IT modernization projects for the IRS and the FBI will meet new deadlines, despite missing several start dates over the past few years.
New York-based L-3 Communications Corp. received two five-year contracts totaling $84 million to provide the Army with software engineering support, the company said today.
Systems integrator CACI International Inc. plans to compete for federal contracts two to three times larger than those it has won in the past, after it completes its acquisition of American Management Systems Inc.
The Homeland Security Department will have integrated IT systems for its multiple agencies by the end of the year, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said today.
A year after the government pulled together 22 different federal agencies under the aegis of the Homeland Security Department, IT directors are now zeroing in on eight priorities.
