Sensor devices and unmanned aerial vehicles could play a pivotal role in patrolling the nation's land borders in the near future, government officials and expert witnesses said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
SRS Technologies won a five-year, $123.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to deliver scientific, engineering and technical assistance and administrative support services.
One of the most stealthy, lethal and persistent weapon platforms in the Navy's arsenal is the submarine. But it has one fatal flaw: Communications is virtually impossible when the vessel is submerged and cruising.
A business process is not a single application, but rather a flow of tasks and, often, documents that typically involve many people, departments and enterprises. Even if automated, the process probably taps into many databases and programs. But that kind of ubiquity can make business process prone to the errors and inefficiencies that come from poor coordination, communication and data integration.
Viisage Technology Inc. won a $10 million contract with the Defense Department for multimodal biometric devices that incorporate iris, finger and facial recognition technologies.
The Labor Department has vast resources to help people find jobs, collect benefits and more. The problem: For some, the resources are too much of a good thing, and they need coaching to help navigate the volumes of information.
Driven by major program integration and health IT initiatives, state and local government spending on health care and welfare IT is sharply on the rise.
The number of physicians moving to electronic health records jumped by more than one-third since 2001, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As a Vietnam veteran of the Army Nursing Corps, Mary Stout has seen her share of government forms and paperwork. As the Veterans Health Administration's chief of forms publications and records management, Stout has labored to move the agency from paper to electronic forms.
BBN Technologies won a $5.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the first phase of the Integrated Learning Program, an artificial intelligence project.
Disaster recovery was a low priority for many government agencies until the flood of terrorist attacks, hurricanes and other disasters of recent years. Now disaster recovery, ensuring that IT works uninterruptedly, is a key component of the continuity of operations plans that government expects industry to help it carry out.
