Unisys Gets DHS Contract Worth Up to $750 million

feamsr00 writes "In an affirmation of its business relationship with Unisys Corp., the Department of Homeland Security awarded the Blue Bell firm a "bridge" contract worth up to $750 million. Some controversy erupted in the fall after it was reported that the government was auditing a Unisys contract because the company had possibly overbilled the Transportation Security Administration by as much as 171,000 hours of labor and overtime. TSA is a division of the Homeland Security department. Unisys is also to upgrade the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters facility in Washington."

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Unisys - Top-Ranked Google Search

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Just for grins, I searched Google Groups for "Unisys". Here's the top-ranked post (angle brackets edited to correct html confusion, but otherwise verbatim):

1. Bill B
        Nov 8 1996, 3:00 am hide options
Newsgroups: comp.sys.unisys
From: Bill B (b...@prolog.net) - Find messages by this author
Date: 1996/11/08
Subject: Unisys/Arete 1200 ???
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I have a Unisys / Arete 1200 and I'm not sure what I am going to do with
it. I connected a Wyse treminal and it seems to work, but I have no Info
about the machine, any help would be nice. Here is what is inside,
  2) CPU32 boards.
  2) 2/8 MB Mem Boards.
  1) DMC Board.
  2) HSDT/IOCP Boards.
  1) GC/IOCP Board.
  1) MAC Board.
  2) Fujitsu HDs, 168mbs ea.
  1) Tape drive.

If anyone has any info or would like any or all of this computer here is my
Email
b...@ptdprolog.net
Thanks, Bill

2. Thomas Wyckoff
        Nov 11 1996, 3:00 am hide options
Newsgroups: comp.sys.unisys
From: Thomas Wyckoff - Find messages by this author
Date: 1996/11/11
Subject: Re: Unisys/Arete 1200 ???
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That's a pretty nice system from the late '80s. You have 2 CPU's with
68030's, some memory (you'll have to pop out the boards. If they're full
they're 8 megs each). The DMC is the memory controller, the HPIO is the
tape and disk controller. The GCPIO board(s) are the terminal
controllers, 8 terms per board. The MAC card is a frame that lets you
use multi-bus boards in the Arete (ARIX now) system. It might have an
ethernet or x.25 card in it. The 168 meg disks will cost more than a new
Buick to replace if they go. The Army still has a lot of these systems,
and I still get to work on one once in a while. Tom Wyckoff