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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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EDS gets e-travel slice
The General Services Administration included EDS as a federal e-travel vendor following the company's protest of the original award.
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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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Military to use Alphatech to stop denial-of-service attack
The company will get $12.9 million.
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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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GSA readies share-in-savings site
The Share-In-Savings Program Office is expected to start outreach programs in January.
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GSA exec to be procurement nominee
David Safavian, GSA's chief of staff, will be nominated for administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, officials said.
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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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NASA adds to list of IES users
Two NASA space centers will train security personnel on use-of-force training simulators.
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DHS schedules session for enterprise software vendors
The Homeland Security Department plans to hold an industry day to explain its goals for back office systems.
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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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Services discuss JTRS consolidation
The Navy and Air Force are thinking about merging their Joint Tactical Radio System clusters.
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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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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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Raytheon gets Air Force deal
The company will get $20.5 million to make improvements to the Air Force's Global Broadcast Services.
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Air Force awards JAGUAR contracts
DARPA hired five companies to do R&D for the Joint Air/Ground Operations: Unified, Adaptive Replanning program.
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Air Force seeks satellite blinder plans
Northrop Grumman received an additional $32.2 million for a contract to design a system to deny enemies the use of their spy satellites.
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