The U.S. Postal Service has embarked on an ambitious $2 billion, multiyear program to harness data from automation equipment and its information technology infrastructure to better serve customers and improve its own operations.
Refurbishing the nation's strategic arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles would seem a tall order for any company. But not so for TRW Inc., whose expertise as the Air Force's ICBM systems engineering and technical assistance contractor dates to 1954. The real challenge for the Cleveland-based contractor was delivering promised savings.
Information technology companies that provide regular training to their employees are doing more than keeping up with competitors ? they're beating them soundly.
A desire to jump on the electronic government bandwagon is unleashing strong demand for data warehousing systems that allow agencies to retrieve a wide range of information and deliver more useful services to citizens and other users.
Efforts to create a skilled work force should begin in the primary grades, advocates said recently at a forum in Washington promoting technology education in primary and secondary schools.
While training programs are a must for keeping employees' technical skills up to date, information technology companies shouldn't overlook the sales department when allocating training dollars, said Stephen Waterhouse, who trains sales forces worldwide.
Enterprise messaging systems that facilitate communication within organizations are getting a boost from new Internet and wireless technologies that are improving information sharing and carrying enterprise messaging to new levels of efficiency.
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 survived a slow start following its introduction in March, and now is taking hold among federal agencies eager to use the operating system's advanced capabilities, according to industry observers.
The corporate crusade to gain competitive advantage using new supply chain methods is extending to federal, state and local governments, where business-savvy leaders seek to replicate commercial successes.
It's called by a different name nowadays, but the concept of business process re-engineering once again has raised its head among organizations steeped in client-server technology.
Changes in contracting over the past few years have accelerated the practice of partnering as a strategy for companies pursuing government contracts to the point where it is now rare for anyone to go it alone.
Guns, guards and gates have long been employed by those seeking to protect physical assets. Not so in the incorporeal world of the Internet, where easy entry and rapid navigation are routine practice and common articles of faith. Internet security, in fact, may be a kind of oxymoron: the World Wide Web is easily torn by malicious attacks that can come anytime, anywhere. A computer-based network that, because it was so decentralized, was initially designed to survive a national emergency is now, ironically, at growing risk from common e-thugs.
While market analysts almost universally agree that the demand for storage area network solutions is growing dramatically, their specific projections about SAN adoption rates and future growth are not always in agreement.
Speeding the transition to a paperless world has made strange bedfellows of efficiency experts and environmentalists. Do away with paper transactions, and you save not only trees, but also time and money.
Decision support systems, once viewed as extremely complex and generally confined to sophisticated users, are now finding their way into the hands of the masses, thanks to a new offering known as the analytic application.
Upcoming contract opportunities at the Federal Aviation Administration, outlined by agency officials and market research firm Federal Sources Inc. of McLean, Va., include these blockbusters:
