Rich Martin, former chief information officer at data communications provider Transaction Network Services, has joined LGS Innovations as CIO. The 20-year industry veteran will serve as technical and personnel leader at LGS and manage operations for activities related to information technology, the company said Tuesday. Kevin Kelly, LGS CEO, said Martin... 

General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has completed its acquisition of Fidelis Security Systems, a provider of cybersecurity tools for real-time network visibility, analysis and control. General Dynamics said Fidelis will become a part of its advanced information systems unit and did not disclose the value of the cash transaction. Lou Von Thaer, president of the... 

Diana Gowen CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE: CTL) has won a $233 million task order to provide data networking services to the Social Security Administration, the company announced Thursday. The company won the order through the General Services Administration‘s Networx program, which the company says is the federal government’s largest-ever telecommunications... 

DoD Image The U.S. Navy has issued its highly-anticipated request for proposals for a complete overhaul of its intranet under the potential $4.5 billion Next Generation Enterprise Network contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will run up to five years, according to a Navy post on the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command‘s... 

The U.S. Navy has awarded contracts potentially worth $500 million for network and communications equipment, the Defense Department announced Thursday. Contractors will provide the commercial offOffice Forms Facilitator-the-shelf equipment and related incidental support under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price, multiple award... 

Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRSHazard Ranking System) has won five-year task order potentially worth $38 million on the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services contract. The company was awarded work on the Joint Task Force Bravo’s command, control, communications and computer systems operations and maintenance program at Soto Cano Air Base... 

The U.S. Navy has awarded Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) a $30,562,096 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in support of Navy Cyber Forces’ operation and maintenance of the OCONUS Navy Enterprise Network outside the continental U.S. The contract contains options, which could bring the contract value to $144,674,426. CSC... 

The U.S. Navy has lowered its cost projections for its Next-Generation Enterprise Network to less than $1.5 billion per year, $500 million less than the $2 billion figure provided last week, according to a report from NextGov. The Navy’s current network, the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, is slated to continue operating through 2015 under a $3.4 billion... 

The U.S. Navy will use price as its standard when itInformation Technology awards the Next-Generation Enterprise Network contract, according to Capt. Shawn Hendricks, manager of the Naval Enterprise Networks Program Office. At a industry briefing Friday, Hendricks said the network will likely cost $10 billion over five years, double what the Navy spent... 

William Hoover, AMERICAN SYSTEMS The Defense Security Cooperation Agency has awarded AMERICAN SYSTEMS an $18.3 million task order on the ENCORE II multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company will provide a a fully-managed information technology infrastructure hosting that uses cloud technology to support agency enterprise...