Hewlett-Packard Beats CSC for $3.5 Billion Navy Contract

Hewlett-Packard Co. won a contract valued at as much as $3.5 billion to run the U.S. Navy’s communications network, the largest single information-technology project in the federal government.

The Navy selected Hewlett-Packard’s team over a group of contractors that included Computer Sciences Corp. and Harris Corp. The agreement calls for managing the Navy’s 800,000-user intranet through 2018, according to a Defense Department announcement today.