Open-source project leaders could use these results to fix software defects, while agency and critical infrastructure IT shops could monitor them to evaluate or take corrective action on applications.
The North American market for biometric applications is expected to rise to $1.4 billion by 2008, nearly triple the $527 million generated in 2004, according to Frost & Sullivan.
Massachusetts has named Bethann Pepoli acting CIO of the state's Information Technology Division following the unexpected resignation of Peter Quinn from that post last month.
Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $23 million contract with Corpus Christi to install a citywide, wireless broadband infrastructure and an automated meter-reading system.
The Homeland Security Department has published specifications for advanced video cameras it is looking to install along thousands of miles of Mexican and Canadian borders.
Even with a comprehensive IT security plan in place, one of the Federal Aviation Administration's first Federal Information Security Management Act compliance scores was a lowly D.
On the battlefield, even the best laid plans may need to be changed in an instant. A routine scouting mission can turn into a firefight, leaving a unit of soldiers low on fuel, ammunition or other supplies.
While Pentagon officials say Internet Protocol version 6 will be essential for net-centric warfare, they are frustrated by the military's inability to use the technology.
Homeland Security Department procedures for verifying identities of people applying for U.S. residency and citizenship are still vulnerable to fraud and are overly reliant on paper documents, according to a new report from the department's Inspector General Richard Skinner.
BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., has won a $16.4 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a system that will transcribe foreign languages and computer encoded text directly into English text for military personnel.
In its first months of operation, an Education Department effort that gives students and parents a way to apply for federal student aid online attracted 35,000 applications.
When Red Hat Inc.'s Tom Rabon was in Malaysia recently, talking with government officials about open-source technology, he was surprised by one of the first questions he was asked by the media there: What's going on with Massachusetts' state government's decision to adopt the OpenDocument format?
