Northrop Grumman zeros in on chem-bio defense

Northrop Grumman Corp. has established a Chem-Bio Defense Technology Center to develop next-generation technologies to build on the company's Biohazard Detection System, being installed in Postal Service facilities nationwide.

Defense may have wasted $8 billion on bad software

The Defense Department may have spent as much as $8 billion in fiscal 2003 reworking software "because of quality-related issues," according to a General Accounting Office report released today.

Boeing: Network-centric operations worth $200 billion

The market for network-centric defense systems will hit $200 billion over the next 10 years, a Boeing official said today.

Defense certifies voice over IP solution

Voice over IP technology took a step toward acceptance for military applications when the Defense Department certified that solutions from Avaya Inc. met security requirements.

Defense budgets for service and support to rise

Defense Department operations and maintenance budgets will continue to grow at a rate of 6 percent per year through fiscal 2009, said an industry trade group.

Input: 2004 starts slow for big contracts

High-value federal information technology and command and control contract awards totaled just $6.7 billion in January 2004, a decline from a year earlier.

Cray broadens supercomputing portfolio

Cray Inc., manufacturer of supercomputers for various government agencies, said it will acquire privately held OctigaBay Systems Corp.

Northrop taps Siemens division to compete for Postal contracts

Northrop Grumman Corp. has teamed with Siemens Dematic Postal Automation LP to compete in the Postal Service's Flats Sequencing System/Delivery Point Packaging program.

British Telecom division taps former senior Defense staffer

BT Syntegra has named Alan Ptak as president of the company's federal government business.

VeriSign launches new security standard

VeriSign Inc. has developed an open standard for strong authentication it calls Oath, Open Authentication Reference Architecture.

Oregon city builds wireless mesh network

Network will provide high-speed data communications to city workers, including law enforcement, fire and rescue, public works and building inspection agencies.

Knowledge Consulting Group lands first prime contract

Knowledge Consulting Group won a contract from the Defense Department to provide information assurance security services.

Motorola debuts video system for public safety

Motorola's Mobile Video Enforcer is designed to address the need for in-vehicle video recording during public safety incidents.

Tech Success: Raytheon, Nextel arm first responders

When IT professionals think load balancing, they think of hardware and software that keeps network traffic from overrunning a single server. For St. Louis first responders, load balancing means ensuring hospitals don't become inundated with patients in the event of a disaster.

DHS pitches patch program

Listen closely. That's the sound of the Homeland Security Department powering down its $10 million Patch Authentication and Dissemination Capability program.

OWL swoops down on the Web

	Systems integrators will have a new Web language at their fingertips when they develop next-generation search tools and Web services.

ManTech wins Customs contract for security

ManTech International Corp. won a contract from the Homeland Security Department for personnel security investigation services at the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, the company said.

FDA, Accenture look at RFID for prescriptions

The Food and Drug Administration is eyeing radio frequency identification technology as a means of tracking prescription drugs and preventing the spread of counterfeit drugs, according to a report issued yesterday.

Defense Department buys Linux cluster

Linux Networx Inc. has received an order from the Defense Department for a Linux-based cluster as part efforts to modernize Defense high-performance computing capabilities.

Coast Software to monitor defense Web sites

Coast Software Inc. of Ottawa has won a contract for software that can monitor content on military Web sites for operational security issues.