<FONT SIZE=2>General Dynamics Corp.'s aggressive moves to position itself as an information technology provider to the Defense Department are well known. But the company also has been quietly working to win more business with civilian agencies, especially by leveraging its engineering and network talents developed for defense customers.</FONT>
Harris Corp. scored a major coup last month, besting both Lockheed Martin Corp. and incumbent WorldCom Inc. to win the Federal Aviation Administration's multibillion-dollar telecommunications infrastructure project, called FTI.
Until recently, data security was provided as a function of system or network security. This reflected the traditional view of the server operating system as the center of an information technology universe.
The standards board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association approved the communications "Bluetooth" specification for wireless personal area networks.
Senior government officials are putting a higher priority on electronic government than they did a year ago, but they are walking a tightrope to balance the twin tasks of developing e-government and beefing up the security of their IT systems, recent studies show.
As the federal government pushes for more teleworking and greater information sharing among agencies, officials are finding that virtual private networks are a low-cost way to securely connect far-flung employees and disparate offices.
As the federal government pushes for more teleworking and greater information sharing among agencies, officials are finding that virtual private networks are a low-cost way to securely connect far-flung employees and disparate offices.
Amid the death and destruction of the terrorist attacks Sept. 11 in New York and Washington, the United States received a brutal wake-up call about the vulnerability of the nation's critical infrastructures ? both physical and electronic.
Federal officials are increasingly turning to Web-based solutions to improve logistics management and help agencies perform their missions better, cheaper and faster.
Help desk and call center vendors are finally catching the Internet bug ? albeit quietly ? as a number of major and minor players over the last year have begun transitioning their solutions from a client-server architecture to a browser-based one.
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $378 million, 10-year task order to upgrade and manage the Defense Department's Network Infrastructure Services Agency at the Pentagon.
