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 [...]
In late December 2011, McAfee released its predictions for the major cyber threats of 2012. The company identified trends in cyber warfare, legal spam, mobile hacking and other activity to formulate its forecast. Speaking with ExecutiveBiz, Ken Kartsen, McAfee’s vice president of federal sales, indicated he believes the increasing prevalence of mobile devices at home and [...]
The U.S. Navy has awarded SAIC Inc. a $10,647,009 contract modification for the Deep Sea Operations Program, the Pentagon announced Thursday. The modification brings the total contract value to an estimated $12,199,237. During the contract’s 15-month extension, SAIC will work to produce a surveillance system that can detect quiet submarines at deep sea depths. The [...]
SAIC Inc. has won a follow-on contract worth a potential $11 million for the construction phase of the Marshall Space Flight Center‘s facilities management office, the company announced Thursday. NASA awarded the contract, which has a one-year base performance period and four one-year options for construction, engineering and building commissioning services. The center will operate major components [...]
SAIC Inc. has been selected to modernize instrument landing system components for the U.S. Air Force under a potential $22 million contract, the company announced Tuesday. The contract has one base year with four one-year options. SAIC said it will replace obsolete components with commercial off-the-shelf equipment, then integrate the new equipment into existing infrastructure. The [...]
A Bloomberg Government study has found that U.S. government spending on multiple-award contracts (MACs) grew twice as fast as total contract spending between 2006 and 2010, with MAC spending increasing 49 percent to $121 billion over the period. “Multiple-award contracts are starting to become the center of the universe,” Jaime Garcia, president of Washington-based Seville Government Consulting told [...]
For the second consecutive year, the nation’s capital has topped MarketWatch’s Best Cities for Business list. MarketWatch attributed DC’s ranking to its mix of large and small companies, low unemployment, strong economy and large government infrastructure. In conducting its study of metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 residents, MarketWatch analyzed cities’ economic data, including the number of companies located there and the revenue generated by those companies. As the presence of [...]
