) September 17, 2008 -- The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Intelligent Software Solutions a $49.9 million dollar increase to their Secure Information Access Analysis and Dissemination contract vehicle. Through the SIAAD vehicle, ISS provides enterprise solutions and services to a wide range of government customers within the Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security and intelligence agencies. Tasks issued on this contract span cutting edge research & development, custom system engineering and technology sustainment and maintenance.

) January 27, 2009 -- Intelligent Software Solutions has been awarded a 12 month, $35 million task on its Secure Information Access Analysis and Dissemination contract vehicle by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company will perform a wide range of software support activities to United States forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as grow support to agencies across the Department of Defense and other government agencies. A major focus of this contract will be support to ISS' CIDNE or Combined Information Data Network Exchange program.

) March 17, 2009 -- ISS has been awarded an effort to transition its Air Force Installation Command System (AFICS) capabilities into the Air Force's Theater Battle Management Core Services (TBMCS) Unit Level Command and Control (UL/ULC2) system upgrade program. The TBMCS UL/ULC2 program provides Air Force units the ability to track a wide range of issues from logistics to weather, flying operations as well as many others. The AFICS concept seeks to both expand upon the existing TBMCS UL data sources as well as unifying many aspects of air base operations in a single user-configurable web-based environment.

) November 4, 2008 -- Intelligent Software Solutions has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Colorado, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences companies in the area by Deloitte LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services organizations. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth over five years from 2003-2007.

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) November 14, 2008 -- Intelligent Software Solutions today announced that it ranked number 277 on Deloitte's 2008 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth over five years, from 2003-2007. Intelligent Software Solutions grew 619 percent during this period.

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) April 30, 2009 -- After considerable success with initial integration and demonstration of Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) machine learning capabilities, Intelligent Software Solutions has been chosen to fully transition and field the technology. ISS serves as the prime contractor and integrator for the Air Force Research Laboratory's Web Enabled Temporal Analysis System (WebTAS). Early in 2008 ISS was initially chosen by DARPA to integrate their Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) machine learning technologies into WebTAS.

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a $7 million, one-year IT services task order for the Headquarters Air Force (HAF) Information Management Enterprise (IME) Business Solutions Software Development Services Support program.

Serco Inc., a provider of professional, technology, and management services to the federal government, announced today that the company has been awarded the Air Force Data Preparation for the Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS) Data Preparation task order under the Department of Defense Logistics, Maintenance, and Supply Support (LMSS) contract. (PRWeb Oct 9, 2009)

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) February 13, 2009 -- Animetrics Inc. today announced it has been chosen as a subcontractor by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE:SAI) to provide 2D-3D face recognition products and services in support of SAIC's prime contract with the Army's Biometrics Task Force (BTF) to provide biometrics support services in support of the Biometrics Operations and Support Services Unrestricted (BOSS-U) program. SAIC's multiple award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity prime contract has a three year base period of performance, two one-year options and a total contract ceiling of $497 million for all awardees.

) November 20, 2008 -- Saffron Technology, Inc., the leader in associative memory analytic solutions, announced the promotion of Major General Gary M. Jones (U.S. Army) to Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Saffron's Government Solutions Business. In this role, Mr. Jones continues his current leadership responsibilities for Government Sales and will oversee the operations and direction of this strategic business unit as it continues to deliver next-generation solutions for investigative and predictive analytics to government organizations.

) November 21, 2008 -- Communications veteran Vic Beck has joined S4 Inc. as the Director of Communication Planning and Strategy. An award winning communicator, Mr. Beck will provide strategic communication consulting, insight and strategy to S4 clients in the commercial and government sectors.

Mr. Beck is a Captain in the US Navy Reserve and recently returned from a year-long recall to active duty. During his mobilization he was the Chief of Media Operations for the Multi-National Force-Iraq based in Baghdad and the Director of an International Media Engagement Team based in Dubai for US Central Command. Previously he was a vice president at a public relations agency in the Boston area.

) October 7, 2008 -- The US Army's Product Manager Joint-Automatic Identification Technology (PM J-AIT) Office for total AIT and RFID solutions today selected ODIN technologies as a prime contractor for its Passive Radio Frequency Identification (pRFID) contract. ODIN technologies, the global leader in complete RFID solutions, software and services along with its partners SRA, Unisys, KTS Solutions, Intermec, Zebra, Sirit, OAT Systems and IBM will offer complete solutions to the joint services through this $75 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract.

) March 18, 2009 -- Trident Systems Incorporated joined forces with the Department of Defense, government agencies, industry and universities at the quarterly TNT (Tactical Network Topology) 09-2 Field Experimentation Cooperative Program event led by U. S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). TNT is a live action technology experimentation session designed to foster ongoing innovation and collaboration among industry, government, academic research and Special Operations Forces (SOF).

Green Wave will ensure trustworthy information across the Department of Defense’s network-centric operations.

) March 18, 2009 -- Loyola Enterprises announced today that it has been awarded both the full and open and small business set-aside Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Omnibus Contract II (STOC II) by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEOSTRI).  These multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts have a cap of $17.5 billion over 10 years and have a 15% small business set-aside goal.

As a result of these awards, Loyola will be able to bid and team on a variety of task orders for the U.S. Army over the period of the contract to meet the U.S. Army's training and testing needs. The contracts can also be used by other DoD services, government agencies and state agencies.

) June 18, 2009 -- Centrifuge Systems, Inc., a leading provider of next generation business intelligence software, announced today that Mr. V. Philip Lago has joined its advisory board.

Mr. Lago's career spans more than 30 years in the CIA and intelligence community as a senior executive, manager, analyst and operations officer. He is nationally recognized in the fields of emergency preparedness, continuity of operations and continuity of government.

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that the U.S. Army awarded the company a task order to continue providing a full range of Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Management (C4IM) support and services at U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Md.

In a statement issued today, Advanced Systems, Inc.'s (ASI) President, Dr. Robert Walker, announced that Advanced Systems, Inc. (ASI) has been awarded a four and a half year, $12.6 million contract to support the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) Directorate of Operations (J3), Command and Control (C2) Division. (PRWeb Oct 2, 2008)

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) July 20, 2009 -- ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) today announced it has been awarded a re-compete contract for the continued development, deployment and sustainment of the Information Support Server Environment (ISSE) system. ISSE is a high assurance communications infrastructure component, providing secure information sharing and protection between networks operating at different security levels. ITT has received two delivery orders valued at $9.8 million under the five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. The contract has a ceiling value of $49.9 million and was awarded through the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) based in Rome, N.Y.

) October 19, 2009 -- Windward IT Solutions (www.windwardits.com), a premiere operational management consulting and systems engineering firm, on Monday named Dennis B. Boykin IV as its new Vice President and General Manager of Federal Solutions. Mr. Boykin will be responsible for leadership and growth of Windward's federal government practice, including business development, marketing, and acquisition functions. He brings a wide-ranging background in operations management, business development, government contract management, and commercial financial operations to our government clients.

) July 24, 2009 -- The Federal Government has awarded the Alliant Information Technology Contract to 59 companies; these companies went under tremendous competition to win one of 59 awards to share in the $50 Billion Prize. A Virginia based company is one of the fifty-nine companies to be awarded this contract with this five-year base period of performance, five-year options and a total ceiling value of $50 billion.

) October 2, 2009 -- INPUT, the leading authority on government business, today released its list of the top 20 federal contract opportunities for government fiscal year (FY) 2010. The new top 20 list represents more than $180 billion in total contract value, a 50 percent increase from last year, and derives 63 percent ($113 billion) of its total value from civilian contract vehicles. INPUT's research also reveals the top trends shaping the FY2010 list, including increased civilian contracting opportunities, significant recompetes of existing contracts and an emphasis on leveraging task order based contracts.

) November 10, 2008 -- Lombardi®, a leader in business process management (BPM) software, today announced that the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has selected its award-winning Teamworks® BPM software suite to support numerous administrative business processes across the organization. INL is a science-based, applied engineering national laboratory dedicated to supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's missions in nuclear and energy research, science, and national defense.

) April 17, 2009 -- Virtual Corporation, a provider of Business Continuity consulting and software, announced their Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Software, Sustainable Planner®, can be hosted at a secure military datacenter. Federal government agencies and U.S. military organizations can acquire Sustainable Planner® via the GSA Schedule to build and maintain their plans and ensure their protection and availability by hosting the plans and software at a classified military data center in Southwest Virginia. Virtual's software and services received the award of its GSA Schedule for Consolidated Schedule from the General Services Administration (GSA).

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a five-year, $26 million contract to provide managed information technology solutions to the Air National Guard Network and Regional Operations and Security Centers.

) July 23, 2009 -- The General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded the Alliant Information Technology Contract to 59 companies. One of the fifty-nine companies awarded this contract hired G4i to help them win this five-year base period of performance, five-year options with a total ceiling value of $50 billion.

The Reston, VA Company will provide cloud to desk-top solutions globally, under the umbrella of the GSA Alliant contract. They will provide timely, secure, and responsive 24x7x365 IT services to users. This includes providing a stable IT environment and a flexible, cross-trained support staff. The team will also implement a structure for maturing ITIL processes and functions, including network management, system automation and information assurance.

) January 27, 2009 – Admiral Michael Mullen, USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff will address attendees at the Awards Dinner on the night of February 11 during the National Defense Industrial Association’s (NDIA) 20th Annual Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) Symposium being held from February 10-12, 2009 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC.

Admiral Mike Mullen - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

) February 6, 2009 -- Desktop Alert, Inc., a Premier Department of Defense Net-Centric Alert and Notification Technology Company, today announced that they have been chosen as the net-centric mass notification system to be used by the 721st Mission Support Group located in Cheyenne Mountain Colorado.

) May 14, 2009 - Trident Systems Incorporated (www.tridsys.com) is breaking new ground in Cross Domain Solutions at the highly anticipated DoDIIS Worldwide Conference 17-21 May 2009 (Booth 731), as Trident will use its certified Collaboration Gateway (CG) product to conduct cross-domain chat and whiteboarding with multiple Government-approved guarding solutions.

) April 28, 2009 -- XIO Strategies, Inc., a supply chain management and communications consulting firm, today announced that it has been awarded a subcontract by Northrop Grumman to provide active RFID consulting services to the U.S. Department of Defense under their RFID III contract, a multiple award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a $429 million ceiling available for task orders.

XIO Strategies, Inc.

) August 12, 2009 -- MorganFranklin announced today a partnership with SRA International, Inc. (NYSE: SRX), a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations and commercial clients, on a contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. MorganFranklin and SRA have been awarded one of the National Communications System's (NCS) National Security and Emergency Preparedness Scientific, Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) contracts.

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) November 19, 2008 -- George Mason University (GMU) has been awarded an Intergraph® Global Education Grant in support of United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation's (USGIF) prestigious GEOINT accreditation. Intergraph's Global Education Grant program advances collaboration between academic and commercial communities to promote the role of geospatial technology in today's society.

Saratoga Springs, NY - MySmartSim, a pioneer since 2001 in providing companies with custom interactive simulation and chapter-based courses, announced today their partnership with Strategic Response Initiatives (SRI). This partnership will enable the development of custom online interactive training in the military and government sectors. Robert Domenici of SRI has been appointed Chief Military Advisor and will work closely with mySmartSim as a subject matter expert for their government and military training offerings. He is a recent graduate of the US Army College and former commander of the 2nd WMD (Anti-terrorism) Civil Support Team and a recipient of the Legion of Merit with extensive experience in disaster preparedness and emergency operations.

) October 6, 2009 -- Carpathia Hosting, a leading provider of managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses, today announced an expanded portfolio of secure, compliant hosting solutions designed specifically for federal civilian and defense agencies through its recent acquisition of ServerVault. The company also announced the creation of Carpathia Government Solutions (CGS), a business unit focused on delivering secure, compliant and innovative hosting solutions engineered for the federal market.

) July 24, 2009 -- Technical Innovation, one of the southeast's leading providers of digital media technology solutions, announced today that Colonel James E. Granger, the former Chief Information Officer (G6) at the United States Army Special Operations Command at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina, will be joining the organization in the newly created role of Director of Business Development for the TI Federal Group.

) August 24, 2009 -- Widearea Systems, a convergence technology company that provides Unified Communications solutions and services to enterprises and government agencies, announced that Former Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne, who retired from this position in June 2008, has been appointed to their advisory board. Wynne was a proponent of the Cyber Domain, and was responsible for the affairs of the Department of the Air Force, the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve. Choon Shim, Widearea Systems Chairman and CEO said, "Having someone like Mr. Wynne on our Advisory Board will provide great insight into technologies to be developed. His experience in defense and intelligence will help broaden our possibilities and we are pleased to welcome him on board."

) January 5, 2009 -- Deltek, Inc. (NASDAQ: PROJ), the leading provider of enterprise applications software for project-focused organizations, today announced the release of GovStart, a turn-key software solution that enables small and emerging government contractors to quickly and easily implement a complete business development solution to manage their entire procurement lifecycle. GovStart is an all-inclusive offering including Deltek’s industry-leading GovWin product, hosting, quick-start implementation and ongoing maintenance and support. The package also allows for an optional pre-populated pipeline of government opportunities and comes with two year, lease-to-own financing terms.

) November 17, 2008 -- TerraGo® Technologies, a provider of software solutions that extend the access and application of geospatial data to professional consumers, congratulates Ray Caputo, geographer for the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, for winning the 2008 Geospatial Intelligence Achievement Award in the Military category. Caputo was selected by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Awards Committee for exceptional work in support, promotion and development of the Army GeoPDF® project. He received his award at the 2008 GEOINT Symposium in Nashville, Tenn. late last month.