Voice over IP technology took a step toward acceptance for military applications when the Defense Department certified that solutions from Avaya Inc. met security requirements.
Defense Department operations and maintenance budgets will continue to grow at a rate of 6 percent per year through fiscal 2009, said an industry trade group.
The Defense Department this week proposed publishing 14 rules in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement that would streamline the acquisition process.
The Defense Department will evaluate its IT programs against "key net-centric attributes" and may cut funding for those programs that don't meet the criteria.
Linux Networx Inc. has received an order from the Defense Department for a Linux-based cluster as part efforts to modernize Defense high-performance computing capabilities.
Titan Corp. has won a seven-year, $217 million contract from the Army Information Management Support Center to provide information technology support services.<br>
The Defense Department awarded prime contracts in fiscal 2003 totaling $209 billion, $28.2 billion more than in fiscal 2002.Lockheed Martin Corp. tops the agency's list of top 10 prime contractors for 2003, with contracts worth $21.9 billion.
President Bush's lower-than-expected request for technology spending in 2005 has put contractors on notice that the government market will become even more competitive in the months ahead. The president's $59.8 billion budget request for information technology is up just $671 million from his request of $59.1 billion for 2004, a 1 percent increase. The White House released the fiscal 2005 request Feb. 2.
A subsidiary of San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. won a contract to develop a prototype system that will protect military networks from malicious software, such as the recent MyDoom worm.
Business continuity, the process of ensuring that computer systems run in the event of an emergency, is receiving fresh attention in the government market, and not only because of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In an increasingly networked world, business continuity has come to mean something new.
Lockheed Martin Corp. has built a prototype system that integrates air and space command and control capabilities for the Air Force and U.S. Strategic Command.
Lockheed Martin Corp. has chosen Northrop Grumman Corp. as its primary teammate and subcontractor in the competition to develop the Air Force's space-based radar.
InfoVista Inc. said the Defense Information Systems Agency has chosen its Foundation 1.0 software to monitor network performance and service levels in the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion project.
