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DLT Solutions has won a $79, 463, 725 contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with enterprise resource planning software from Oracle. The Defense Department said the branch will receive a standard ERP license agreement for the products. Work will occur in Herndon, Va. and the Pentagon expects the work to finish on June 25....
RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ: RNOW) stockholders voted to approve Oracle Corp.’s acquisition of RightNow (NASDAQ: ORCL) at a meeting Thursday. Oracle agreed to buy RightNow in October for nearly $1.4 billion in cash, or $43.00 per share (see our previous story on TheNewNewInternet here). RightNow’s federal customers include NASA, the So...
The U.S. Education Department is seeking ideas on how to transfer several of its system to cloud computing, according to a request for information posted Nov. 18. The RFI asks for ideas for how to implement infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service for the department’s central automated processing system, known as EDCAPS. The RFI s...
Neustar Inc. (NYSE: NSR) has named Joe Pasqua to head Neustar Labs and lead its efforts to grow the company’s product and services portfolio through research and development, Neustar announced today. Pasqua was named to the newly created position of vice president of Neustar Labs. Prior to his appointment, Pasqua was chief technology office...
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has won a five-year contract worth $10.8 million with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to provide Oracle’s PeopleSoft application hosting and support services. Accenture will expand and upgrade existing software applications to enable the commission to access, interpret and organize information. The goal is to im...
While no clear sector focus dominated the merger and acquisition landscape in September, government contractors remained busy, closing on several interesting healthcare and cybersecurity deals and divesting some operations. The eight acquisitions GovCon Wire recorded were down from the 11 reported in August, but executive moves ramped up to seasonal...
CACI (NYSE: CACI) has completed its acquisition of Advanced Programs Group, LLC, a provider of  Oracle e-business services to the federal government. CACI expects the move to increase its earnings per share over the next 12 months. Reston, Va.-based Advanced Programs has 110 employees and generated 2010 calendar year revenues of $41.9 million. Ou...
CACI International Inc. (NYSE: CACI) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced Programs Group, LLC, a provider of Oracle e-Business services in the federal market. CACI expects the move to increase its earnings per share during its first 12 months after closing. The company expects to complete the acquisition by Oct. 1. Reston, Va.-ba...
CGI Group, Inc. (NYSE: GIB) will collaborate with Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) to offer tax and revenue agencies  two built-for-government software products. The software products are: CGI’s Computer Assisted Collection System for Government Oracle Enterprise Taxation and Policy Management CGI said the complementary products create a service-orien...
In a bid to lure Oracle customers, IBM announced Friday new resources to help customers make the transition — or what IBM called “move up” — to IBM software. The perks include no-charge financial and technology assessments, skills-training courses and a proof-of-concept to perform a side-by-side cost/performance comparison between IB...
