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Postal Service sticks with Northrop Grumman for repairs

Northrop Grumman IT will get $130 million to continue its work for the Postal Service Central Repair Facility.

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NSA goes back to the future for procurement

Harry Gatanas returns as NSA's top acquisition official

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Fed Technology Service pushes 3GS

The General Services Administration is trying to get industry ready for the advent of its Web-based task-order management system.

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SRA wins USAID contract

The company will replace CSC in providing IT infrastructure services to the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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GSA readies share-in-savings site

The Share-In-Savings Program Office is expected to start outreach programs in January.

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Acquisition reform gets through conference

SARA, which would change the acquisition structure, made it through the conference process largely intact.

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Military to use Alphatech to stop denial-of-service attack

The company will get $12.9 million.

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Energy hires IBM, Corning for supercomputing optics

The companies will get $20 million to develop high-speed, optical interconnects for supercomputers.

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Trade group calls for share-in collaboration

The Information Technology Association of America wants rules on so-called share-in savings contracts to allow for collaboration with contractors.

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Davis reviews immigration contracting

The House Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, will review legacy contracting functions at the former Immigration and Naturalization Service.

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GSA to change corporate schedule program

General Services Administration officials want more vendors using the program, which lets agencies combine multiple purchases into single deals.

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Senators triple FAA software program's funds

An inspector general's caution didn't stop the Senate from increasing the money for ERAM.

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Sandia buys switches for supercomputer

Sandia National Laboratories bought 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches from Foundry.

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General Dynamics wins GIS deal

The company will provide geographic information services for the Forest Service.

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McDonald Bradley added as Concorde vendor

The Drug Enforcement Administration awarded the company a deal worth up to $11.2 million to compete for task orders on the Concorde modernization.

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OMB reports progress with competition goals

A Bush administration report designed to promote its competitive sourcing initiative shows that controversy over the initiative is not likely to fade

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See you in court

Aronie: Companies are too hesitant to turn to the courts or the general accounting office to protect their rights

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Agencies still going slowly on performance contracting

Mather: Concept encounters 'capital-C cultural change'

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NASA awards $2 billion in contracts

The space agency announced the winners of three deals.

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MPC adds Sun vendor for VA

The company reached an agreement with subcontractor Paragon Systems to offer a full range of Sun systems to the department.