NASA has selected DB Consulting Group, an 8(a) firm in Silver Spring, MD, for its Information Technology and Multimedia Services contract. The IDIQ contract has a maximum value of $251.5 million over a three-year base period and two additional option years.

DB will provide information technology, multimedia, information management and external relations support services at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The company will be responsible for operation of the center’s primary IT services and television systems support for human spaceflight missions.

Northrop Grumman is restructuring to deal with anticipated Pentagon budget cuts and shifting priorities, the Wall Street Journal reported Nov. 12. According to the report, Northrop may exit the shipbuilding business and focus on robotics and surveillance equipment.

SBA and Syracuse University are expanding their Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for Veterans with Disabilities to a seventh school, Louisiana State University.

The training program is already operating at five schools: the University of Connecticut School of Business, Mays Business School at Texas A&M, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Florida State University’s College of Business, and the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.

SBA said it will also support a new program to provide entrepreneurship training for women veterans at several locations around the country.

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has ruled that veteran-owned businesses have priority over the AbilityOne program in contracting with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

AbilityOne, which serves blind and severely disabled people, used its procurement preference to claim a laundry contract for VA hospitals. But the Court said the law clearly gives service-disabled veteran-owned and other veteran-owned businesses top priority in VA contracting.

The case is Angelica Textile Services Inc. v. U.S.