NSA to spend $450 million on IT
A vaguely interesting data point on the NSA budget: their new IT budget involves $450 million over five years. The main beneficiary is Computer Sciences Corp (CSC). Perhaps a red herring: Computer Sciences recently purchased DynCorp, which was accused early last year of involvement in a Bosnian sex slave ring. Via charging the canvas.
The El Segundo, Calif.-based company said it is one of four selected by the National Security Agency to provide IT services under a five-year blanket purchase agreement. Computer Sciences estimated its portion of the award to be about $300 million if all options are exercised. The company will provide IT engineering, technical and management services in support of the Information Technology Infrastructure Services program at the NSA's Washington campus and other NSA sites worldwide. About 250 employees from Computer Sciences' Maryland Intelligence Center, as well as 16 other companies and 23 small or disadvantaged businesses the company said it is teaming up with, will work for the NSA. - CNet, Computer Sciences lands deals.GovExec lists the other three in a brief article. Interestingly, it gives a different description of the services than the CNet article.
The National Security Agency (NSA) has selected Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) and three other companies to provide systems administration, security engineering and other information technology services under a five-year blanket purchase agreement worth $450 million, CSC announced Monday. [...] The three other companies selected by NSA are Arlington, Va.-based CACI International, Lanham, Md.-based QSS Group and EER Systems, a Chantilly, Va.-based subsidiary of L3 Communications. The purchase agreement will support NSA's Information Technology Infrastructure Services program. The work will be done at NSA's Washington offices and at other NSA sites throughout the world, according to CSC. - GovExec, Security agency awards tech contract.