Army awards contract for simulations
The Army has chosen Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles for a 10-year, $408 million contract to provide battle command training support to Army corps, division and brigade commanders to improve warfighting capabilities.
The IT world according to DOD
<b>C2 Constellation:</b> Air Force's planned peer-to-peer network meshing command, control, communications, computers, surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance systems with airborne and space-based sensors.
GAO: Tax haven companies have federal contracting edge
New report says companies incorporated in overseas tax havens are likely to hold a competitive advantage over domestic competitors in pursuing federal contracts.
Net-centricity has many moving parts
The Defense Department faces a full row of hurdles in its quest for IT gold: to achieve systems interoperability and seamless information-sharing and fulfill its vision of a network-centric department.
Air Force lab contract will enhance data mining system
Architecture connects to multiple data sources and uses data mining tools to provide trend and pattern analysis.
Net-centric approach creates a software challenge
As the Defense Department gears its networks for greater use, its software needs also are changing.
DOD networks the future
Somewhere in time, the Army is fighting wars with a super-agile, lightning-fast force of manned and unmanned ground vehicles, air vehicles, sensors and munitions'a networked suite of weapons interoperating effortlessly with other military networks.
Agencies get out of the box
Mark Carney calls the core financial system the Education Department tried to install in 1999 a 'stinker.' The agency's chief financial officer quickly grew tired of the configuration issues as well as arduous and complex testing processes. Education's decision to move to Oracle'one of six commercial software systems approved for federal use by the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program'represents a trend: Agencies are changing their business practices to meet the software's capabilities instead of customizing software to conform to their own procedures.
Acquisition training partnerships are planned
The Federal Acquisition Institute will start using more of the Defense Acquisition University's courses and resources.
Strategic Command awards architecture contract
U.S. Strategic Command hires Lockheed Martin Corp. to develop a mission planning and execution system.
TSA unveils new passenger prescreening program
Secure Flight follows on the heels of TSA's defunct CAPPS II program, and TSA took pains to distinguish it from its discredited predecessor.
NRO awards communications contract
The National Reconnaissance Office has chosen Harris Corp. to provide operations, maintenance and support services for the agency's global communications and information systems.
FAA adds redundancy to voice communications lines
The Federal Aviation Administration is installing 1,000 circuit protection switches on voice lines between major air traffic control facilities.
DISA wants help shaping Net-Centric services
The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeking help from industry in shaping up the nine core services that will constitute its Net-Centric Enterprise Services initiative.
IRS taps Spires to lead modernization
Richard Spires, former president of Mantas Inc., will head the tax agency's Business Systems Modernization effective mid-September.
Brookhaven deploys virtual tape backup system
Brookhaven National Laboratory has installed an administrative backup system that works like tape backup, but is a disk-based system.
Army Medical Command buys software licenses
The Army Medical Command has purchased software licenses to migrate and manage the command's Microsoft infrastructure.
GSA to offer some free access to federal contract data
<font color="CC0000"> (UPDATED) </font color>GSA says new federal contract database will improve agency reporting of contract data.
Bandwidth expansion is due at 10 bases
Around mid-October, 10 military installations in the eastern United States will become the first to get a bandwidth boost.
Six degrees of worldwide integration
The Defense Department's Global Information Grid exists today as a vision.
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