News briefs: On the Edge
By aggregating the services of 30 North American cellular providers, Aeris.net of San Jose, Calif., has built what executives consider the largest wide area, wireless network for carrying machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.
Navy expands its collaboration
The benefits of document management software are well known: It improves workflow, increases productivity and enhances collaboration inside government agencies. Where system integrators can add value is in extending document management beyond an agency's walls to include other agencies or outside contractors.
IBM pushes into identity management
IBM Corp. has demonstrated a secure identity management solution meant to combine physical and cybersecurity into a single, integrated package.
A clear signal
When Dawn Meyerriecks, then chief technology officer of the Defense Information Systems Agency, was briefing industry executives last summer on DISA's Network-Centric Enterprise Services initiative, she warned them that the Defense Department didn't want contractors to offer competing standards when proposing solutions.
Lockheed Martin wins IT work for Central Command
Lockheed Martin Corp. will supply personnel and equipment to handle voice, video and data communications services in the United State and overseas for the Defense Department's Central Command.
Don't believe all WiFi hype
Certification body pledges to come down hard on companies that claim compatibility before standards are ratified.
Split ticket on IT issues
Neither presidential candidate has staked out distinct, compelling positions on the technology issues that matter most to industry, said analysts monitoring the race.
Tech Success: GIS tech helps bring out the vote
Federal, state and local governments often have discrete GIS groups working on task-specific GIS initiatives. But as geospatial data becomes increasingly important to all types of agencies, integrators are called on to marry disparate GIS projects and build applications that take advantage of unified geospatial information.
On the Edge: News briefs
Having chipped away at the network-attached storage market with its Windows Storage Server 2003, is preparing a product for the low-end, disk-based storage segment.
Computer Associates to buy security vendor
Computer Associates International Inc. will acquire identity management company Netegrity Inc. for about $430 million in cash.
FreeBalance snaps up financial planning rival
FreeBalance Inc., a developer of enterprise software for automating the business and financial functions of government, has acquired Influatec Systems Inc. of Ottawa. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
PeopleSoft rolls with the punches
The company ousted its chief executive officer the same day the Justice Department bowed out of a fight to keep Oracle Corp's hands off the software firm.
CACI's Ken Johnson will retire
Ken Johnson, president of U.S. operations at CACI International Inc., will retire Nov. 1 to spend more time with his family, the company announced today.
IBM overtakes Earth Simulator in supercomputer race
IBM Corp. said today that its BlueGene/L supercomputer, which the company is building for the Energy Department, is faster than Japan's Earth Simulator, clocking in at slightly more than 36 teraflops, or trillions of operations per second.
Net-centric consortium gets off the ground
Some of the world's biggest defense companies are planning to cooperate to build more interoperable systems. The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, will work on standards and guidelines so that all networked platforms seamlessly communicate.
Defense Department certifies Cisco VoIP
Cisco Systems Inc. said that its Internet protocol telephony solutions have been certified by the Defense Department's Joint Interoperability Test Command, opening the door for organizations across the department to deploy Cisco's voice over IP equipment.
Tech Success: Cyber- and physical security meet
When chasing IT contracts, it can be hard to make one proposal stand out from the rest. Server consolidation, disaster recovery and similar technology initiatives are fairly well understood and not very glamorous.
Wireless security: 'We have to do the right things'
During a Baltimore conference last summer of 1,000 Homeland Security Department workers, Robert West, the agency's chief information security officer, made the rounds at an after-hours social event.
GAO: Beware managed PKI
The Government Accountability Office warned this month that in some situations, managed public key infrastructure services could be more trouble than they're worth to government agencies.
Planning Systems alliance aims for airdrop-dead accuracy
Planning Systems Inc. inked a $5 million deal with Capewell Components Company that would let Capewell market PSI's Precision Air Drop System overseas, minimizing the risk of airdrops missing their targets.
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