People

BAE wins Spawar deal

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center awarded BAE a contract worth up to $54.5 million for support services for ship command and control

People

HHS tests finance system

Officials started testing an Oracle-based financial management system two weeks ago at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Acquisition

Motion pushes tablet PCs to feds

Motion Computing Inc. hopes new distribution deals and a new office will boost sales of its tablet computers to the government.

Acquisition

E-procurement integration

The GSA Advantage Web site provides an electronic storefront to the agency's multiple-award schedules, including the information technology schedule.

Acquisition

Five trends to watch

Look for the following improvements to the GSA multiple-award schedules

Acquisition

GSA Buyer's Guide Intro

In our third special supplement this year on contract options for federal information technology buyers

Acquisition

CDC hires Orkand for tech support

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a contract to Orkand Corporation for continued support for the agency's health statistics division.

Acquisition

The GSA juggernaut

The schedule is a force to be reckoned with but has room for improvement

Acquisition

IT continues to surge

The General Services Administration opened its information technology schedule to services in 1996.

Acquisition

Small-biz provisions threaten businesses

Small Business authorization bill seeks to boost agency small-biz numbers

Acquisition

Researcher sees more GIS sales

Increased government spending will help the market for geographic information system (GIS) products grow by 8 percent this year, says research firm Daratech.

Acquisition

Peregrine no longer bankrupt

The software vendor has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans a renewed push into the federal market

People

OMB clears up SmartBuy

Federal agencies confused about the government's SmartBuy enterprise licensing program can go online to find out more about it

People

Defense document site gets upgrade

An overhauled Web site will let Defense Department employees track documents throughout the printing and duplicating process.

People

Defense approves new info framework

Version 2.0 of the Global Information Grid incorporates the latest lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq

People

Raytheon, IBM to collaborate on defense

In their new partnership, IBM Corp. provides the chips and software know-how, and Raytheon brings the defense electronics experience

Modernization

GSA proposes MCI debarment

No halt to current contracts, but future business uncertain

Modernization

GSA ponders Sprint debarment

MCI's problems may be getting the most attention, but the General Services Administration is also looking at the possibility of barring Sprint from federal contracts.

People

Lockheed to design Air Force system

A Lockheed-led industry team will develop architecture for a network of systems for command and control, intelligence and other functions.

Acquisition

Labor to overhaul financial system

Proposed system would enable employees to spend more time on analysis