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VA awards data center deals

Logicon gets lion's share with $650 million contract to support Austin Automation Center

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Service contract confusion

Until 1994, the Service Contract Act stood as one of the clearer laws intended for contractors

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Systems to fake nuclear explosions

Los Alamos gets help in visualizing nuclear weapons effects without underground testing

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Pair picked to deliver DOE software

Beyond.com and Network Management will supply Microsoft enterprise software products

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ATF extends seat management

Agency awards BPA to Unisys to cover computer services for 6,000 seats

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CSC, NSA get down to business

Cost of Groundbreaker at odds in award

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Retooling IT

The National Security Agency has billed Groundbreaker as a step toward bringing the agency's Cold Warera information technology into the 21st century

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FAA picks ITT for digital radio deal

The FAA has asked ITT Industries Inc. to provide multimode digital radios to air traffic controllers

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FAA picks ITT for digital radios

The award is the first step toward replacing analog radios under the agency's NexCom program

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GSA splits PC seat work

General Services Administration has decided to divide responsibilities for managing desktop computers by hiring one vendor for hardware and software and another for desktop services

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NASA launches workstation bonanza

NASA has selected eight companies for its $4 billion SEWP III

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Accenture to revamp IRS site

IRS awards Accenture a contract potentially worth $33.6 million to redesign Web site

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OMB picks finance chief

President Bush will nominate Mark Everson to oversee the administration's goal of improving agencies' use of financial information, White House officials said July 17.

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Competition winners to be monitored, OMB says

Whether agencies choose to keep work in-house or contract it out, they will have to prove that was the right decision through a new review process being developed by the Office of Management and Budget.

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DEA picks PEC for intranet work

Contract wins are latest for PEC Solutions on the agency's Firebird intranet

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HUD picks TRW for grant tracking

TRW wins contract to build a software system to help HUD track more than $26 billion in grants

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Minnesota tests reverse auctions

The state is sampling online auction companies to see which will ease its purchasing of goods

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ITOP contract draws scrutiny

House panel is concerned that agencies could use the DOT contract to evade oversight

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Lockheed protest upheld

GAO has upheld a protest by Lockheed Martin Systems Integration regarding a contract to upgrade software on military helicopters.

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OMB seeks budget system upgrade

OMB calls for proposals to improve the systems that handle the government's budget process