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DOD signs QinetiQ to continue security work

The department awarded the company a $30 million follow-on contract to provide services for DOD’s Counterintelligence Field Activity.

Acquisition

IRS taps SAIC for data management, security

The company will provide IT support under a $10 million task order awarded under GSA's Millennia Lite governmentwide acquisition contract.

Acquisition

USA.gov to get support from small-biz firm

GSA awarded Cascades Technologies a a five-year, $3.5 million contract to provide content assistance and other information technology services.

People

VA taps EDS for personal identity verification cards

Under the $11.6 million contract, the company will assist VA in issuing cards in a format accepted throughout the federal government.

People

Idaho health department taps ACS for benefits management

Affiliated Computer Services will provide pharmacy claims processing, automated prior authorizations, help-desk support, prospective and retrospective drug use reviews, and federal and supplemental drug rebate administration and reporting.

Acquisition

Grassley, Sun's McNealy seek end to dispute

The two parties need to agree on an auditor to review the company's pricing practices.

Acquisition

Justice joins fraud lawsuit

Whistle-blower suit alleges that IT vendors submitted false invoices to the government.

Acquisition

Perot Systems to support NIH research

Under a $145 million follow-on deal, the company will continue to work with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

People

SRA CEO DiPentima to retire

He will be succeeded on April 2 by Stanton Sloane, formerly executive vice president for Integrated Systems and Solutions at Lockheed Martin.

People

ManTech sells off MSM unit

ManTech CEO George Pedersen's MSM Holdings is buying the subsidiary for $3 million in cash.

People

IG: Task orders awarded were improperly in VA data theft investigation

The report by the VA's IG especially singles out Pedro Cadenas, then the VA's associate deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Cyber and Information Security.

People

Piatt steps down as IAC chairman

Venkatapathi Puvvada, IAC's executive vice chairman, will take over effective March 21.

People

FEMA starts search to create civilian advisory panel

The National Advisory Council will work with FEMA's administrator to coordinate federal preparedness.

People

More than 1 million individuals' data at risk

The VA says the missing portable hard drive used by an employee at a VA medical facility may have held sensitive information on half a million individuals and more than 1 million physicians.

People

Northrop Grumman president takes on COO title; new CFO named

Wesley Bush takes on the portfolio of chief operating officer in addition to his current title of president.

Acquisition

U.S., India agree to expand small-biz opportunities

SBA and India’s Ministry of Small Scale Industry intend to increase cooperation and identify opportunities for strategic alliances.

Modernization

In-Q-Tel invests in StreamBase Systems

The CIA-funded venture capital firm sees intelligence value in StreamBase's complex event processing software.

People

An advocate of commercial best practices

A colleague describes EDS’ David Hadsell as one ‘who under-promises but over-delivers’.

Digital Government

Industry groups join hands

IT lobbying organizations agree to be partners on important policy issues.

Cybersecurity

US-VISIT program offers no exit

DHS discontinued testing a RFID biometric exit system for land crossings.