Christopher J. Ballenger : October 2008 Archives

October 16, 2008

DOD GETS ITS INTELL FINANCE IN ORDER

Recently DOD announced it's award of the Solutions for Intelligence Financial Management (SIFM). SIFM is to provide the Defense Intelligence Community with dedicated contractor support to DIA. The idea is enhance and establish internal controls and demonstrate audit readiness by the end of FY 2011. In addition, SIFM will provide DIA (and other Department of Defense (DoD) and Defense Intelligence Community organizations) a full range of financial, resource and program management activities.
 
DOD awarded SIFM at an estimated value of $150 million to the following companies:

HHM402-09-D-0002 - Booz Allen
HHM402-09-D-0003 - SBSI
HHM402-09-D-0004 - KPMG
HHM402-09-D-0005 - Bearing Point
HHM402-09-D-0006 - Accenture
HHM402-09-D-0007 - Northrop Grumman (TASC)
HHM402-09-D-0008 - Grant Thornton
October 8, 2008

FDA PRESCRIBES $2.5 BILLION TO MODERNIZE

10 companies for 10 years. That's the prescription for the new FDA program to modernize its aging IT systems. The FDA recently awarded 10 companies 10 contracts to compete for orders as the FDA remakes itself.  The contracts call for data management, data warehousing, IT infrastructure and security.

The 10 companies are:

  • Buccaneer Computer Systems and Service Inc., Warrenton, Va.
  • Computer Sciences Corp., Falls Church, Va.
  • Dynanet Corp., Elkridge, Md.
  • EDS Corp., Plano, Texas
  • General Dynamics Corp., Falls Church, Va.
  • HumanTouch LLC, McLean, Va.
  • IDL-Pragmatics Innovation Partners, Vienna, Va.
  • Interactive Technology Solutions LLC, Silver Spring, Md.
  • Telesis Corp., Rockville, Md.
  • Unisys Corp., Blue Bell, Pa.
Accordfing to FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, the contracts will allow the FDA to acquire, analyze and act on data critical for import protection, food protection and medical product safety plans.

Apparently three task orders worth over $18 million have already been awarded to Interactive Technology Solutions, Buccaneer and EDS.