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.
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.
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 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.
Neither presidential candidate has staked out distinct, compelling positions on the technology issues that matter most to industry, said analysts monitoring the race.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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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