BAE Systems’ technology solutions and services business unit has won a $17.2 million Navy contract to provide engineering and technical services, the Washington Post reported Monday. According to the Post, BAE’s work is for an estimated 260,000 hours.
IBM will provide the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with professional, administrative and management support services, according to a Washington Post report. The Post reports that the company will complete the work on a $5.5 million contract. It provided no other details.
In another sign of troubled times for the Washington Post, Kim Hart announced today she will be leaving the paper. For the past year, Hart offered Beltway readers the inside scoop on Washington’s technology community. Hart delivered news of her departure in today’s final Download column: “I have enjoyed connecting the dots between these worlds [...]
Over the past week, the stimulus package has been talked about as a sort of fiscal version of “Where’s Waldo?” “Where’s the $787 billion?” asks BusinessWeek. Meanwhile, US Vice President Joe Biden offered up a strong defense of the administration’s pace in releasing the funds. So, what does that pace mean for industry? Here’s what [...]
What a year. From market meltdowns to a change in administration, 2008 will go down as a year of unprecedented change. Local businesses and leaders were no strangers to change, either, and ExecutiveBiz was there every step of the way, chronicling the key players in commercial and government markets. In case you missed any of [...]
Several years into writing Washington Post’s “The Download” column, Shannon Henry published an entry in December of 2004 that queried local technology players on what trends might emerge during the coming year. More specifically, Henry addressed how, depending on the prevailing economic and entrepreneurial climate, the region’s tech identity wavered between that of a government [...]
Remember the Washington Post’s Download column? Up until its hiatus in 2006, Download offered readers the inside scoop on the tech community’s major players and trends. This coming Monday past readers of the column have reason again to rejoice; that’s when the Post’s Kim Hart kicks off the columns long-awaited return. In an exclusive interview [...]
