Jacobs Engineering Group has won a contract to provide architectural design, engineering and construction management services at military distribution centers run by the Defense Logistics Agency. Jacobs will perform work at various domestic and international DLA sites under the potential three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Jacobs said Tuesday. “We are delighted to continue our ongoing relationship with […] More

CACI International has been awarded potential four-year, $45 million contract to help the FBI implement and maintain a system for managing financial and acquisition processes. This order was awarded under the bureau’s information technology supplies & support services contract vehicle known as Triple S and contains one base year and three option years, CACI said Tuesday. The […] More

Researchers at Battelle are exploring the impact of cold temperatures on various equipment and materials, The Columbus Dispatch reported Monday. Dean Narciso writes Darren Wolfe, a Battelle research scientist, tested a panel from Blackhawk helicopter’s dashboard in very low temperatures. The dashboard’s incandescent lighting stopped working due to vibrations and Battelle researchers switched the material […] More

Rockwell Collins has received approval from the National Security Agency for a data link system designed to help soldiers transmit radio communications in the battlefield. NSA certified Rockwell Collins’ TacNet platform to manage and secure network-centric communications up to the Top Secret classification level, the company said Thursday. Mike Jones, vice president and general manager […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector, has said agencies will control costs, enhance quality and boost the speed of cloud services in 2014, FCW reported Thursday. Carlson writes that the government and private sector have already shifted focus to core business operations from running data centers. Agencies are now able […] More

Jacobs has won a $7.6 million contract to redesign a NJ Transit rail yard to serve as a permanent location for storing and repairing state public transport system’s trains, NorthJersey.com reported Thursday. Karen Rouse writes work will involve extending the Middlesex County rail yard to connect with the neighboring Mile Run rail yard, which is […] More

CGI has signed a four-year information technology outsourcing agreement worth approximately $18 million to work with a government agency in Sweden that was established on June 1, 2013. The Swedish Health and Social Care Inspectorate works to manage health, medical care and social services in the country, CGI announced Wednesday. Under the agreement, CGI will provide […] More

Mike Haysley, a two-decade legal veteran, has been appointed director of strategic services for the CounselLink business at LexisNexis Legal & Professional. He will be responsible for driving growth and client results for the CounselLink strategic consulting services, LexisNexis announced Tuesday. Haysley will work with executives and legal departments to work on strategic services process stages […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has won an award for a Novartis facility that it provided design, engineering, procurement and construction management services for. The  U.S. Flu Cell Culture Facility at the Novartis Campus in Holly Springs, N.C. won the 2013 Facility of the Year Award from the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering, INTERPHEX and Pharmaceutical Processing […] More

A new Dun & Bradstreet study predicts India’s information technology sector will expand in 2014 amid growing interest in big data analytics, healthcare IT, and engineering, research and development outsourced services, Telegraph India reported Sunday. According to the Telegraph, D&B forecasts an an onrushing demand for big data implementation for a deluge of unstructured information […] More

Rich White joined Capstone Corporation in May 2013 and serves as chief executive at the provider of information; training; and strategy, planning and operations solutions and services to the federal government. White joined Capstone from Harris Corp, where he spent more than 30 years and held executive leadership positions in areas including space, intelligence, information […] More

CGI and Canadian regulators have finalized the details of a project to manage Canada’s document filing systems, clearing the way for a Jan. 13 launch of the securities databases under new management, the Globe and Mail reported Friday. Janet McFarland writes the Montreal-based information technology company won a potential eight-year deal in April but the scheduled […] More