Boeing and IBM form strategic alliance

Boeing Co. and IBM Corp. today announced a 10-year alliance established to pursue what the partners estimate is a $200 billion market for ground and space-based systems used in network-centric operations.

SBA awards $13.6m system modernization deal to SRA

SRA International Inc. is going to help the Small Business Administration upgrade its Disaster Credit Management System under a $13.9 million task order.

Internet threats take on new hue

The daily volume of Internet attacks dropped off in the first half of this year, and the rate at which new vulnerabilities are being reported appears to have hit a plateau, but new problems are on the rise.

Lockheed Martin teams with ESRI on GIS solutions

Lockheed Martin Corp. is the first federal systems integrator to join a new program for developing geospatial intelligence solutions based on technology from Redlands, Calif.-based ESRI Inc.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 held up ? again

Microsoft Corp. yesterday delayed yet again its oft-delayed Windows XP Service Pack 2, this time postponing the patch's distribution through the company's Automatic Update service.

Relativity hangs a shingle for public-sector practice

Relativity Technologies Inc., a provider of modernization solutions for enterprise applications, has launched a public-sector practice.

Pay.gov project opens at HUD

Advanced Technology Systems Inc. has implemented an application that allows electronic payments and account reconciliation at the Housing and Urban Development Department.

IBM tailors software solutions to government

IBM Corp. is putting a government spin on its enterprise software products. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company today announced a series of solutions that it said could help agencies reduce costs and improve service to constituents.

Defense agencies develop data-sharing standard

Military services and contractors can use new standard to maintain up-to-date descriptions of how large systems are configured.

IBM aims to make supercomputing easier

IBM Corp. has introduced a series of prepackaged, high-performance computing clusters aimed at organizations with limited staffs and budgets, but seemingly unlimited need for computing resources.

Accenture builds Siebel system for South Africa

Accenture Ltd. has deployed enterprise systems software from Siebel Systems Inc. to help the South African Revenue Service streamline operations.

GSA signs first SmartBuy deal with ESRI

After struggling with the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program for the past eight months, the General Services Administration last week finally signed the first agreement with geographic information systems vendor Environmental Systems Research Institute.

PeopleSoft earns federal certification

PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 8.8 received certification from the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP), the company said.

Business Objects details integration of Crystal Decisions

Government users of Crystal Reports, the popular data reporting tool, can rest easy knowing the product's new owner won't force an integrated suite of business intelligence tools down their throats.

Saflink acquires physical access biometric technology

The Bellevue, Wash., company announced today it has bought intellectual property and other assets related to digital identity and biometric-enhanced physical access security technology from Information Systems Support Inc. and BioMetric Solutions Group Inc.

In-Q-Tel seals deal for monitoring app

The CIA's venture capital arm has negotiated a license for event detection and response software to help officials track information in multiple databases.

INSCOM unifies Unix, Windows inventories

The Army Intelligence and Security Command has bought server management software from Altiris Inc. to integrate an inventory of computers running Unix into one documenting the computers running Windows.

Agriculture buys $1 million worth of EF Johnson IP radios

The sales, won by the company's EF Johnson division, represent a growing market for radios that are Internet-ready and meet emerging interoperability standards, said Jim Ridgell, vice president of EF Johnson's federal business unit.

HP, Navy back open-source security initiatives

As the use of open-source software, such as Linux, increases in the public sector, commercial and government agencies are taking steps to obtain credentials necessary for open source use in high-security environments.<br>

Translation software helps scour documents for intelligence

DOCEX, a system from Vredenburg, is helping the U.S. military and intelligence community more quickly identify important documents.