Much of downtown San Francisco is wired with fiber-optic cable to serve the broadband needs of city agencies and departments. But for the water-pump stations for the city and county of San Francisco, a broadband connection was out of reach. The San Francisco city and county Public Works Department hired Xtech LLC to connect the pump stations, said John Eaton, an Xtech partner.
When a government agency needs telephone service, it doesn't go out and buy dozens of components, build a switching system and run its own network. It simply buys a subscription for the service from a telecommunications company.
Tangent Inc. released a new version of Web Hawk, its content filtering solution that aims to save schools and libraries money on update fees while helping them comply with Children's Internet Protection Act requirements.
Federal government testing of digital fingerprint interoperability has evolved into an eligibility test for the federal employee identification card initiative, industry executives said.
Emerging technologies such as modeling and simulation are important to the success and future of most Top 100 companies. Other interoperable, easy-to-use technologies also are getting attention, and technologies for the Defense and Homeland Security departments are stirring interest among many companies up and down the list.
Federal testing of digital fingerprint compatibility begun two years ago has morphed into an eligibility test for vendors that want to participate in the massive, upcoming federal identification card program under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
Six months from the deadline for issuing interoperable smart federal ID cards, standards and specifications are in place. Now the heavy lifting is about to begin.
Nothing is final about a proposed sole source contract for an airport industry group to operate a central database for the upcoming Transportation Worker Identification Credential, a Homeland Security Department spokesman said Wednesday.
The Homeland Security Department's Secure Border Initiative should generate more than $2 billion in IT spending, according to a report released by the market research firm Input Inc.
Alien Technology Corp. signed an agreement with Unisys Corp. to deliver to market radio frequency identification technology, products and services designed to increase supply chain visibility, security and efficiency.
Tucked in a corner of an airplane hangar in Iraq, an Air Force mechanic is repairing a plane's hydraulic landing gear system when he hits a snag and needs to refer to the aircraft's maintenance manual. He pulls out a ruggedized tablet computer to access the LAN. Within minutes, he has downloaded the information he needs from a U.S.-based database and is back to work on the plane.
When Michigan was battered by severe windstorms in 1997 and 1998, the state's Emergency Management department and 20 of its local emergency response organizations went into action.
WysDM Software Inc., a provider of data-protection management solutions, has introduced upgrades to its rapid recovery applications, WysDM for Backups and WysDM for Fileservers products.
The Homeland Security Department announced it has restructured a pending contract for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential by limiting the scope of the initial implementation contract to just the enrollment of eligible workers.
It's unlikely that CBs ever will make a comeback, but the desire that fueled their popularity lives on. Whether it is cell phones, hybrid personal digital assistants or tablet PCs, we love wireless.
Public-key infrastructure is a pretty good way to authenticate users, sign documents electronically and secure data. But a pair of experts believe that using PKI often is harder than it needs to be.
The military could use some simple diagnostic systems for its military vehicles like those being installed on civilian vehicles, a top Army general told the Northern Virginia chapter of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Friday.
MetroFi Inc. has won a contract from Portland, Ore., to build a citywide Wi-Fi network that will offer residents free Internet access and expand wireles coverage for city workers.
