Government Contracting
DoD awards EDS $8.1 million health IT contract
By Raj Sethi at 8 September, 2009, 11:54 am
On Tuesday, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) announced that it had been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense’s Military Health System (MHS) worth $8.1 million.
The contract, which runs for one year, obligates EDS to upgrade the system in an effort to improve MHS’s Defense Health Information Management Systems network and ultimately improve its service [...]
Sid Fuchs: The New Face of the Tower Club
By Jack Mann at 3 September, 2009, 9:48 am
The Tower Club’s new chairman Sid Fuchs sat down with us recently to discuss his new position at the Tower Club. We discussed the club’s history, the benefits of membership, and how the club is weathering the present economic storm. You can see the video version of our interview here.
What’s the history of the Tower [...]
Raytheon Exhibits New Technologies at Empire Challenge 09
By Shalini Dua at 2 September, 2009, 2:57 pm
Raytheon was among the exhibitors at Empire Challenge 09, a joint military demonstration that aimed to further the cohesion between U.S. and coalition forces in the collection and utilization of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) information.
At the event the contractor unveiled many firsts including a multi-intelligence tool, MULTI-INT Exploitation Tool (MIETool). MIETool provides an integrated [...]
School Funding to Come at Crucial Time
By Al Gordon at 1 September, 2009, 2:44 pm
School districts across the country received welcome news recently that desperately-needed cash flow will arrive a few crucial weeks sooner than expected.
The news came just as officials are busy with eleventh-hour hiring and planning for the upcoming school year, and will save jobs and programs that might otherwise have been cut.
The Department of Education will [...]
Raytheon Announces Third-Generation of Cross-Domain Guard
By Shalini Dua at 31 August, 2009, 3:14 pm
Raytheon has announced the release of a new version of its High-Speed Guard cross-domain information-sharing solution aimed at government organizations. The firm promises that the latest version will be more economical, reducing hardware costs up to 75 percent and that it will be up to 625 percent faster, with peak performance increased to 5 gigabytes [...]
Read More >>$23.5 Million Task Order Awarded to American Systems
By Shalini Dua at 31 August, 2009, 2:29 pm
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Specialty Center Acquisitions (NAVFAC SCAN) in Port Hueneme, CA, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), has awarded Chantilly based, American Systems a task order worth approximately $23.5 million as part of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award already in place. The task order is firm-fixed price and calls for [...]
Read More >>Brad Antle Founds Salient Solutions LLC
By Raj Sethi at 31 August, 2009, 2:12 pm
Led by CEO Brad Antle, newly-formed Salient Solutions LLC is set to compete for acquisitions in the government services industry.
Antle previously served as the president and CEO of SI International for three years, until it was bought by Serco in 2008. He’s not the only former SI International executive to dive into this new venture, [...]
Teresa Taylor takes over as COO for Qwest
By Raj Sethi at 31 August, 2009, 2:09 pm
On Monday, Business markets group head Teresa A. Taylor was appointed to fill the recently-vacated chief operation officer position at Qwest Communications International, Inc.
The move was made necessary after former COO Thomas E. Richards, who served for the past 13 months, left his post to accept an offer to become the president and COO of [...]
Robert Gates to Tour Lockheed Martin F-35 JSF Production Plant
By Jack Mann at 28 August, 2009, 2:25 pm
Defense Secretary Robert Gates will visit a Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT) manufacturing facility that builds the F-35 fighter aircraft, the Pentagon’s costliest arms purchase program, a move that highlights its strategic importance to the DoD.
Gates will speak to reporters at the Lockheed plant in Fort Worth, Texas, and then pay a visit to a Greenville, Texas L-3 [...]
Naval Air Systems Command Presents Commander’s National Award to Lockheed Martin
By Jack Mann at 27 August, 2009, 11:35 am
Lockheed Martin and other members of the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft (MPRA) Acoustic Commonality Team have received a Commander’s National Award from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). The Commander’s National Award is presented in honor of technical, business and leadership excellence to NAVAIR’s teaming partners. Lockheed Martin’s award was in the research, development, test and evaluation [...]
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