NASA has awarded two six-month contract options to SAIC Inc. for technical and engineering services at the Johnson Space Center, NASA announced Thursday. The options have a total value of $32.9 million and bring the total contract value to $365.1 million. NASA extended the contract in April 2011 for an additional year and two six-month options [...]
A local police department in Minnesota will use analytics software from IBM to assist in police prevention and investigative programs, IBM announced Wednesday. The Rochester Police Department will use incident patterns produced by the software to forecast crime hot spots and allocate resources. IBM’s InfoSphere Identity Insight software is used to determine the identity of a person [...]
ManTech International Corp. has received a one-year, $17 million contract extension to continue supporting a Defense Department research and development program for combating terrorism. ManTech said it will provide administrative, scientific, engineering and technical support for areas involving policy development, management, administration and systems operations. The Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office conducts the R&D program [...]
Salient Federal Solutions Inc. is opening a new operations center in Colorado Springs, Colo. for identifying information technology and engineering talent, Salient announced Wednesday. Salient said the new center will be responsible for capturing and managing a pool of 500,000 potential candidates. The company currently has two talent operations centers in operation in Fairfax, Va. [...]
Accenture will develop a cross-jurisdictional human services delivery model for 12 southeast Minnesota counties, Accenture announced Wednesday. Accenture will be responsible for moving the counties to a regional-based model and create a plan for developing a multi-county framework system. Earlier this year, Accenture published a study on collaboration between governments in multiple jurisdictions. “A regional [...]
The General Services Administration has selected CGI Federal Inc. to transition the GSA’s websites — including Data.gov and USA.gov — to cloud computing, CGI announced Tuesday. The five-year, $20.7 million contract was awarded under the GSA’s infrastructure-as-a-service blanket purchase agreement. The GSA’s office of citizen services and innovative technologies will lead the project. CGI will [...]
Herley Industries, a Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Inc. subsidiary, will produce electronic components and products for a U.S. electronic attack platform, Kratos announced Tuesday. Herley President Richard Poirier said the awards, totaling $17.2 million, are for integrated microwave assemblies. The company did not release additional details due to the sensitive nature of the project.
