BNET Government

Treasury Department to Pay Significant Costs to Manage Financial Bailout

Matthew Potter — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:00:24 +0000

We had written in the past about the U.S. Treasury Department having to hire contractors to help manage the TARP financial bailout passed by Congress last year. Now The Wall Street Journal reports on the costs incurred to do this. The Department predicts that by the end of this month they will have [...]

AT&T Wins Contract to Build Data Network for U.S. Army in Germany

Matthew Potter — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:00:14 +0000

The U.S. Army awarded AT&T Government a task under the Infrastructure Modernization contract to build a data network in Germany that would link various bases together. The contract is worth about $23 million. Federal Computer Week reported on the contract award. The data network will support the Joint Maneuver Training Center (JMTC) [...]

Homeland Security Awards Tri-S Security Contracts for Services in California

Matthew Potter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:00:28 +0000

The International Business Times has a press release from Tri-S Security announcing that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded their subsidiary, Paragon, two contracts to provide services in Los Angeles and San Diego. The contracts worth about $140 million combined are to provide guards for a variety of Federal sites in the two [...]

U.S. Army to Receive $15.5 Million Refund from Leo Burnett

Matthew Potter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:00:08 +0000

The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency will pay the U.S. Army over $15 million to settle a lawsuit related to irregular billing. Adweek reports that the case stems from a whistleblower lawsuit filed by some of the companies employees over the fact that they billed in-house work by subsidiaries as actually done by subcontractors. [...]

Raytheon Had Protested Recent AEGIS Contract Award?

Matthew Potter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:00:01 +0000

The GAO recently denied for the third time a protest by Raytheon of an AEGIS system upgrade contract to Lockheed. They had argued as reported by Reuters that it shouldn’t have been a sole source. AEGIS was developed by Lockheed and is produced by Lockheed and always has been. Although it is [...]

Construction Dollars Flow to Wright-Patterson AFB Due to BRAC

Matthew Potter — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:00:01 +0000

The Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process’ last round moved several USAF research and training facilities to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. This article at Dayton B2B discusses the latest contract awarded to build new facilities at the base to house these moved organizations. Better Built Construction Services received a $40 million contract to [...]

Army Buys PAC-3 Missiles from Lockheed

Matthew Potter — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:00:50 +0000

Lockheed Martin the manufacturer of the PATRIOT PAC-3 missile received several contracts related to that system recently. They total over $750 million and provide for the production of the missiles, support and modifications of launcher units. The contracts also pay for the first parts of the system ordered by the UAE. We [...]

States Award Contracts to Run Medicaid Billing Systems

Matthew Potter — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:14:15 +0000

Two different states announced that they awarded contracts to run their Medicaid billing systems. New Jersey extended the contract of Unisys and North Carolina hired CSC. Previously North Carolina had utilized EDS to run their system. The New Jersey contract is reported by WashingtonTechnology.com here and is worth over $200 million if [...]

Boeing Sells 8 Patrol Aircraft to India

Matthew Potter — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:08 +0000

In the largest contract between India and a U.S. company the nation purchased eight P-8 maritime patrol aircraft from Boeing. The Times of India reports that the deal is worth over $2 billion. The P-8 is a Boeing 737 based aircraft that will replace the P-3 in U.S. service. India hopes to [...]

Possible Protest to NASA Award to Orbital for Supply Missions

Matthew Potter — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:00:20 +0000

As we wrote about a few days ago NASA awarded Orbital Sciences and SpaceX two contracts to conduct commercial launches to supply the International Space Station (ISS). Now The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the third company that bid, PlanetSpace Inc, may protest one of the awards. Somehow somebody has been talking [...]