Jacobs Receives Contract from U.S. Marine Corps for Information Technology Sustainment Services — Press Release

January 12, 2010 by Matthew Potter · Comment
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Jacobs Receives Contract from U.S. Marine Corps for Information Technology Sustainment Services

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today that it has been awarded a task order contract by the Information Systems and Infrastructure Product Group at Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, VA.

This task order, awarded under the Commercial Enterprise Omnibus Support Services Blanket Purchase Agreement, has an estimated value of $9.7 million through December 2010, with the possibility of two option years bringing the total potential value to $29 million.

Jacobs will provide technical services at Marine Corps Major Commands and at bases and stations in the United States and overseas.

Services for the Program Manager for Marine Corps Network and Infrastructure Services will encompass transition, technical refresh, and life cycle sustainment support; schedule coordination; data collection and management; requirements management; hardware and software asset management; and other actions necessary to manage and sustain information technology services in the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) environment and under the Continuity of Services Contract (COSC).

In making the announcement, Jacobs President and CEO Craig Martin stated, “Services we provide under this contract will help sustain and enhance mission-critical, worldwide access to enterprise information technologies for the Marines. This is an excellent opportunity for Jacobs to strengthen our longstanding relationship with the Marine Corps.”

Jacobs is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of technical, professional, and construction services.

Any statements made in this release that are not based on historical fact are forward-looking statements. Although such statements are based on management’s current estimates and expectations, and currently available competitive, financial, and economic data, forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. We, therefore, caution the reader that there are a variety of factors that could cause business conditions and results to differ materially from what is contained in our forward-looking statements. For a description of some of the factors which may occur that could cause actual results to differ from our forward-looking statements please refer to our 2009 Form 10-K, and in particular the discussions contained under Items 1 – Business, 1A – Risk Factors, 3 – Legal Proceedings, and 7 – Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. We also caution the readers of this release that we do not undertake to update any forward-looking statements made herein.

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Concurrent Technologies Corporation Awarded Competitively-Bid Marine Corps Systems Command Contract Worth up to $500 Million — Press Release

December 10, 2009 by Matthew Potter · Comment
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Concurrent Technologies Corporation Awarded Competitively-Bid Marine Corps Systems Command Contract Worth up to $500 Million

JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) was recently awarded a competitively-bid contract to become a prime vendor on the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) Commercial Enterprise Omnibus Support Services (CEOss) contract vehicle. CEOss is a multi-award contract vehicle through which MARCORSYSCOM procures professional services from a group of prime contractors. The contract is a multi-year, Blanket Purchase Agreement, worth up to $500 million. The scope of this effort includes providing technical, logistical, and programmatic support to MARCORSYSCOM and other USMC components. CTC was selected as a winner of the Acquisition, Logistics and Administrative (ALA) Domain, one of the four CEOss domains.

MARCORSYSCOM’s mission is to serve as the Commandant’s principal agent for equipping the operating forces to accomplish their warfighting mission. The command outfits United States Marines with literally everything they drive, shoot, and wear. Using highly effective, streamlined, and innovative business processes, the Command works hard to be timely and consistent in providing quality systems and equipment to the operating forces, and then expertly manages systems and equipment during their entire lifecycle.

CTC will now be a primary resource to MARCORSYSCOM and the operating forces in the Acquisition, Logistics and Administration Domain. CTC will support the Command in several different areas, including, but not limited to: program management, modeling and simulation, logistics training, supply chain management, training services and course development, acquisition logistics, and complex business assessments. CTC will also continue to provide a wide range of other services to MARCORSYSCOM through our role as a partner with prime vendors established in the other three domains. The ALA Domain has historically been the most aggressively and highest funded domain of the four.

“We have partnered with the Marine Corps on many successful programs,” said Edward J. Sheehan, Jr., CTC’s President & Chief Executive Officer, “and we look forward to continuing that pattern of success with the new CEOss contract. This important program highlights our commitment to the U.S. operating forces and ensures that the warfighters have not only the best training possible, but that they also have the best team working for them behind the scenes.”

Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) is an independent, nonprofit, applied scientific research and development professional services organization providing innovative management and technology-based solutions to government and industry. As a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, CTC’s primary purpose and programs are to undertake applied scientific research and development activities that serve the public interest. For more information, visit www.ctc.com.

Source: Concurrent Technologies Corporation

CONTACT: Mary Bevan, Concurrent Technologies Corporation,
+1-814-269-2490, bevanm@ctc.com

Web Site: http://www.ctc.com/

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CSC Wins SAP System Support Agreement From U.S. Department of the Interior — Press Release

December 3, 2009 by Matthew Potter · Comment
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CSC Wins SAP System Support Agreement From U.S. Department of the Interior

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ — CSC (NYSE:CSC) announced today that the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Business Center (NBC) awarded the company a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide SAP system support. CSC is one of two companies that won the competitively awarded BPA, which has a five-year period of performance. This contract was awarded to CSC during the company’s fiscal 2010 second quarter.

Services delivered under the BPA will support NBC’s Financial Management line of business, which was established to provide financial management systems and accounting services in support of federal agencies. These services include SAP implementation, integration, operations and maintenance to help federal finance officers strengthen management systems, accountability and transparency.

“We are pleased to enter into this partnership with CSC, which brings world-class SAP experience to our team,” said Jim Beall, the National Business Center’s chief financial officer and associate director of its Financial Management and Budget Directorate. “By providing SAP as an additional choice to agencies, we can help our customers meet their federal financial management needs more effectively and efficiently.”

“CSC is proud to offer best-value solutions to improve the cost, quality and performance of financial management for small and mid-sized government agencies,” said Tom Anderson, president of CSC’s North American Public Sector Civil and Health Services Group. “Our proven SAP Federal Financial Management solution is scalable, making it affordable for a range of agencies.”

The NBC is a federal shared services provider offering business management systems and services to government agencies, including finance, human resources, payroll, training, IT and administrative support.

For more information about CSC’s Federal Financial Management solutions, visit www.csc.com/ffm.

About CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions and Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector. CSC’s advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 92,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.0 billion for the 12 months ended October 2, 2009. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.csc.com.

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CONTACT: Michelle Herd, Senior Manager, Communications, North American
Public Sector, +1-703-205-6186, mherd@csc.com, or Chris Grandis, Media
Relations Director, Corporate, +1-703-641-2316, cgrandis@csc.com, or Bryan
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investorrelations@csc.com, all of CSC

Web Site: http://www.csc.com/

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DoD Awards GSA SmartBuy/ DoD Enterprise Software Initiative BPA to Telos — Press Release

November 17, 2009 by Matthew Potter · Comment
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DoD Awards GSA SmartBuy/ DoD Enterprise Software Initiative BPA to Telos

Agreement Provides Agencies Throughout the Federal Government with Access to Xacta IA Manager and Telos Automated Message Handling System Solutions

ASHBURN, Va. – November 17, 2009 – Telos^® Corporation has been awarded a SmartBuy/Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with the Department of Defense (DoD) for Xacta^® IA Manager and its Automated Message Handling System (AMHS). Through the BPA and Telos GSA Schedule, military and civilian agencies can purchase Telos’ software, training and support services with increased ease and at significant discounts from list pricing. Xacta IA Manager is currently the only certification and accreditation (C&A) automation product available through the DoD Enterprise Software Initiative.

“Telos solutions and services allow enterprises to conduct their affairs securely and with assurance,” said John Wood, chairman and CEO, Telos Corporation. “Agencies have easy access to products that can help them to manage their messaging information with efficiency and economy, continuously assess the risk and vulnerability of their systems, and comply with the complex C&A processes required by individual agencies and reporting mandated by Congress.”

Xacta IA Manager is a continuous risk management framework that automates and enforces IT security processes across the enterprise. It combines industry-leading security compliance and continuous risk assessment functionality with powerful process automation to establish a centralized IT governance, risk management and compliance (IT GRC) platform. Xacta IA Manager streamlines and enforces IT security standards and best practices for compliance assessment, continuous risk and sustained compliance management, giving executives and IT personnel rapid access to the information needed for fully informed risk-based decision-making.

Telos Automated Message Handling System (AMHS) is an organizational messaging application that meets official information exchange and organizational messaging requirements for DoD, coalition partners, and other government agencies. AMHS charts the way ahead for official information exchange as requirements for command and control record communications traffic evolve, and unified communications capabilities optimize opportunities for collaboration. While still able to take full advantage of legacy transport infrastructures, AMHS easily adapts to future transport technologies and standards.

The BPA can be used by any agency within the Federal community.

About Telos Corporation

Telos Corporation has provided innovative IT solutions and services to the federal government for more than 30 years, focusing since 1989 on secure enterprise solutions. Telos solutions ensure that the government’s most security-conscious organizations comply with demanding federal and DoD information security mandates. Offerings include Xacta^® IA Manager for enterprise IT security management, enterprise security consulting services, secure networks, secure enterprise messaging, and secure identity management solutions. Solutions are represented to the federal government on Telos’ GSA schedule. For more information, visit http://www.telos.com/.

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Lockheed Martin Wins Role to Support IT Solutions For Environmental Protection Agency

September 14, 2009 by Jeffrey Bradford · Comment
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Lockheed Martin Wins Role to Support IT Solutions For Environmental Protection Agency
September 14, 2009

Corporation to Provide IT Support to Help EPA Create a Cleaner, Healthier Environment

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been selected as one of several contractors to support the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Information Technology Solutions-EPA II (ITS-EPA II) agreement.

Under this GSA Schedule 70 Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA), Lockheed Martin and its team will provide a broad range of information technology (IT) maintenance and services across the EPA to enable secure information exchange, environmental data analysis, and aid in scientific investigation of geographic areas to generate informed decision making across the government and environmental community. This work will support the identification of danger zones, climate change modeling and Geographic Information Systems database management.

The ITS-EPA II agreement has a seven-year period of performance and a combined ceiling value of $955 million.

"Real-time knowledge and information are at the heart of protecting human health and the environment," said Lynn Singleton, director of Environmental Services in the Corporation's Information Systems and Global Services business area. "The Environmental Protection Agency must be able to rely on its IT infrastructure to enable quick and accurate analysis, decision and action in support of full range of environmental missions."

Lockheed Martin has provided IT services to support the EPA's mission since 1992, partnering on multiple program and task orders to ensure that EPA's IT infrastructure is maintained, protected and capable of supporting its full range of environmental missions.

In addition to providing IT support to the EPA, Lockheed Martin is working with its customers to address the nation's energy and climate challenges in the areas of energy efficiency, management, next-generation alternative energy generation and climate monitoring. The Corporation provides a full range of energy solutions to the government and regulated industry, including the Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, state and regional energy organizations, utilities and businesses.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2008 sales of $42.7 billion.

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Trace Systems Awarded BPA for Southwest Asia Communications Requirements

March 20, 2010 by Business Wire Defense: Contracts News · Comment
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MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trace Systems Inc., a McLean, VA.-based systems integrator and technical services firm that provides comprehensive communications, networking, IT and other C4ISR services and solutions for the U. S. Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and other U.S. Government customers today announced that it has been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to support Project Manager Network Service Center (PM NSC), Project Director Defense Communication Syst

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NCI Awarded $50 Million Multiple Award National Guard Bureau Joint Doctrine, Training, and Force Development Contract

March 20, 2010 by Business Wire Defense: Contracts News · Comment
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RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NCI, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCIT), a leading provider of information technology (IT), engineering, and professional services and solutions to U.S. Federal Government agencies, is pleased to announce a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) award with a ceiling value of up to $50 million for all awardees. This multiple-award, competitive BPA was issued under the GSA MOBIS contract for a five year period. The National Guard Bureau Joint Doctrine, Training, and Force Development progr

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LGS Awarded Blanket Purchase Agreement to Support U.S. Army in Southwest Asia

March 20, 2010 by Business Wire Defense: Contracts News · Comment
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HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU and Euronext Paris) dedicated to serving the U.S. government community, announced today it was recently awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Army to provide communications technology in support specific operations across Southwest Asia. The agreement is in support of Project Manager Network Service Center (PM NSC) and Project Director Defense Communication Systems - Southwest Asia (PD DCS-SWA) in its