Riverstone pegs government integrators with new switch
A newly introduced line of network switches from Riverstone Networks Inc., Santa Clara Calif., could be used by integrators to compete against telecommunications service providers for agency contracts, the company says.
All quiet on the cyber-war front
Since the war in Iraq began, the Internet has not seen a dramatic rise of malicious activity, a security analysis firm says.
Pitching to an agency? Study its enterprise architecture
Vendors can use an agency's enterprise architecture as a guide to selling their products by showing how the products and services fit into an agency's mission, a market researcher advises.
Pentagon to spend $4 billion on UAVs
The Defense Department plans to spend up to $4 billion on unmanned aerial vehicles over the next seven years, according to a just-released Pentagon blueprint detailing the future of military UAVs.
Tech Success: Enterprise architecture made simple
While the concept of an enterprise architecture may remain an abstract notion to many agency executives, one integrator is hoping to show managers at the Census Bureau how useful an enterprise architecture can be, mainly by deploying flexible modeling software from Computas NA Inc., Sammamish, Wash.
Video surveillance goes digital
Earlier this month, Atlanta-based Vista-Scape Security Systems Corp. beat a large systems integrator for a contract to set up a 50-camera perimeter surveillance system for a Navy harbor in San Diego. Its key to victory? Information technology, said Glenn McGonnigle, the company's chief executive officer.
Issa: Rebuilding Iraq to top $3.5 billion
Although President Bush submitted a wartime supplemental budget request to Congress that included $3.5 billion for rebuilding Iraq, the cost of rebuilding the country may run significantly higher than that, a congressional aide says.
Stanley Associates prepositions Army, Marines for Iraq
When U.S. Army and Marine troops were preparing to enter Iraq, Stanley Associates Inc., helped make sure they had everything they needed.
Issa: U.S. companies should come first in Iraq rebuilding
Rep. Darrell Issa has introduced legislation that would mandate that the Army use American-based cell phone technology when building out a cellular phone infrastructure for Iraq.
New Army systems office gets Iraq duty
Although the Army's Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems has existed for only a year, the systems it supports are seeing duty in the conflict in Iraq.
SAIC wins $50 million defense deal
Science Applications International Corp. won a five-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract worth about $50 million to support networking at the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
NASA sifts future shuttle maintenance programs
NASA is reviewing a list of 60 recommendations that will shape the course of spending on space shuttle maintenance over the next 22 years.
Tech Success: Commerce One pulls into SeaPort with time-savings tool
<FONT SIZE=2>The Naval Sea Systems Command has tapped into e-procurement software from Commerce One Inc. to cut its acquisition cycle and move to a Web-based system that allows better tracking of what it buys.</FONT>
Defense Department to put $4 billion into UAVs
The Defense Department plans to spend up to $4 billion between now and 2010 to develop and build unmanned aerial vehicles.
McDonald wins DoD semantic Web work
McDonald Bradley Inc. has won a $7.8 million contract to help unify Defense Department back-end intelligence systems.
HP sues Intelligent Decisions
Hewlett-Packard Co. has filed a lawsuit against government reseller Intelligent Decisions Inc., claiming the Virginia company sold government-discounted hardware to nongovernment buyers.
NAS investigates networking security legal solutions
A possible solution to computer security vulnerabilities may be to widen the scope of parties that could be held liable for the damage they do, according to a report from the National Academy of Sciences.
General Dynamics wins $20 million Army upgrade contract
General Dynamics Corp won a $19.9 million contract to upgrade a signals intelligence system.
Inkode targets government market with penny RFID tags
Inkode Corp. has introduced a chipless radio frequency identification tag that will cost less than 1 cent to produce.
Aether snags Nextel as police work partner
Nextel Communications and Aether Systems are offering cell phones that will allow police to query national crime databases.
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