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Susan M. Menke
Global warning system gets USGS support
Through its Public Warning Network Challenge, the Internet Society today is calling for collaborators for an all-media, all-hazards public warning system.
- By Susan M. Menke
ESRI wins Geospatial One-Stop revamp
ESRI won a five-year, $2.4 million contract to redesign the Geospatial One-Stop portal that it created.
- By Susan M. Menke
NIST to issue updated federal ID card specs today
The National Institute of Standards and Technology today will release specifications that will firm up biometric plans for governmentwide personal-identity-verification cards.
- By Susan M. Menke
First TacSat launch delayed till March
The planned January debut of the Defense Department's first tactical microsatellite has been postponed at least a month, according to the vendor building a new, low-cost rocket to launch it.
- By Susan M. Menke
NOAA chief calls for global ocean sensing
In the wake of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis last week, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Conrad Lautenbacher has renewed his call for a Global Ocean Observing System that could patch together many governments' stovepiped sensors.
- By Susan M. Menke
A hit list of the year's top viruses
A malware hall of fame is the latest addition to the year's what's in and what's out lists. The Noomy.A worm nabbed the most sophisticated honors and the Zafi.D the most opportunistic.
- By Susan M. Menke
DARPA funds dozens of new urban-warfare tools
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency late last week awarded 37 contracts for new urban-warfighting technologies.
- By Susan M. Menke
Despite spinoff of PC group, IBM to scale up PC manufacturing
When IBM spins off its PC teams to Lenovo Group next year for about $1.75 billion, "there will be a large number of collaborative elements," IBM's PC chief says.
- By Susan M. Menke
Revised draft smart-card specs expected by March
The Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board is reworking the National Institute of Standards and Technology's draft standard for governmentwide identification cards.
- By Susan M. Menke
DHS to update its collaboration portals
The Homeland Security Department is considering a competition within the next six months to refresh its intranet and extranet collaboration portals.
- By Susan M. Menke
DHS privacy office grapples with RFID, biometrics
Congress has given the Homeland Security Department's Privacy Office a fivefold budget increase for fiscal 2005, to $35 million, and the office is trying to establish a framework for evaluating new data collection technologies and information sharing with other agencies and jurisdictions.
- By Susan M. Menke
Telecom services converging via IP
Telecommunications carriers big and small have bet their future on IP networking and voice over IP services.
- By Susan M. Menke
Justice inks security license for 100,000 users
Senforce Technologies Inc. has signed a four-year, departmentwide license with the Justice Department for its Enterprise Mobile Security Manager software.
- By Susan M. Menke
Copper wires phone home
Optical fiber is the future, but old-fashioned copper wiring can still carry plenty of juice ? especially now that the new IEEE 802.3ah standard has taken effect.
- By Susan M. Menke
Sun sets up government test bed
Sun Microsystems Inc. this month opened an iForce Government Solution Center in McLean, Va., inviting systems integrators and federal officials to view thin-client interoperability demonstrations and test proof-of-concept applications.
- By Susan M. Menke
No wiggle room: IBM says worm attacks surging
IBM's Global Business Security Index, based on data from a half-million monitored devices, counted 997 Internet attacks in September, 27 percent more than in July and August.
- By Susan M. Menke
Building transformational satellites will take 'a generation of people'
NEW YORK ? Designing the Transformational Communications Architecture for the Defense Department's Global Information Grid over the next two decades is proving to be quite a challenge, the National Reconnaissance Office's Michael Regan said today at the Satellite Application Technology Conference and Expo.
- By Susan M. Menke
Army to spend $11 billion for new satellites this decade
NEW YORK ? The Army will invest about $11 billion between now and 2010 on a series of Air Force satellite launches, and its director of information operations for networks and space has asked for industry help in designing new types of antennas and IP waveforms "for the best throughput and link closure."
- By Susan M. Menke
Microsoft, Cisco join forces on security
Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. today announced they will make their security architectures interoperable to keep out viruses, worms and other network threats.
- By Susan M. Menke
McNealy: Don't build a custom jalopy
NORFOLK, Va. ? "Every state and local government builds its own one-off, best-of-breed custom jalopy" for a data center or e-government portal, and "it digs a deeper hole by going open source," Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman Scott McNealy said at the Commonwealth of Virginia IT Symposium.
- By Susan M. Menke