Through its Public Warning Network Challenge, the Internet Society today is calling for collaborators for an all-media, all-hazards public warning system.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology today will release specifications that will firm up biometric plans for governmentwide personal-identity-verification cards.
The planned January debut of the Defense Department's first tactical microsatellite has been postponed at least a month, according to the vendor building a new, low-cost rocket to launch it.
In the wake of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis last week, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Conrad Lautenbacher has renewed his call for a Global Ocean Observing System that could patch together many governments' stovepiped sensors.
A malware hall of fame is the latest addition to the year's what's in and what's out lists. The Noomy.A worm nabbed the most sophisticated honors and the Zafi.D the most opportunistic.
When IBM spins off its PC teams to Lenovo Group next year for about $1.75 billion, "there will be a large number of collaborative elements," IBM's PC chief says.
The Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board is reworking the National Institute of Standards and Technology's draft standard for governmentwide identification cards.
Congress has given the Homeland Security Department's Privacy Office a fivefold budget increase for fiscal 2005, to $35 million, and the office is trying to establish a framework for evaluating new data collection technologies and information sharing with other agencies and jurisdictions.
Senforce Technologies Inc. has signed a four-year, departmentwide license with the Justice Department for its Enterprise Mobile Security Manager software.
Optical fiber is the future, but old-fashioned copper wiring can still carry plenty of juice ? especially now that the new IEEE 802.3ah standard has taken effect.
Sun Microsystems Inc. this month opened an iForce Government Solution Center in McLean, Va., inviting systems integrators and federal officials to view thin-client interoperability demonstrations and test proof-of-concept applications.
IBM's Global Business Security Index, based on data from a half-million monitored devices, counted 997 Internet attacks in September, 27 percent more than in July and August.
NEW YORK ? Designing the Transformational Communications Architecture for the Defense Department's Global Information Grid over the next two decades is proving to be quite a challenge, the National Reconnaissance Office's Michael Regan said today at the Satellite Application Technology Conference and Expo.
NEW YORK ? The Army will invest about $11 billion between now and 2010 on a series of Air Force satellite launches, and its director of information operations for networks and space has asked for industry help in designing new types of antennas and IP waveforms "for the best throughput and link closure."
Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. today announced they will make their security architectures interoperable to keep out viruses, worms and other network threats.
NORFOLK, Va. ? "Every state and local government builds its own one-off, best-of-breed custom jalopy" for a data center or e-government portal, and "it digs a deeper hole by going open source," Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman Scott McNealy said at the Commonwealth of Virginia IT Symposium.
