Connecting the dots against terrorism became a major industry after Sept. 11, 2001. The market for intelligence and security informatics IT is now $1 billion a year, according to a new report.
Windows Cluster Server is based on the Windows Server 2003 server software, but has additional features that allow computers to be yoked together to work in parallel on computationally intensive tasks.
With more than 45 million facial images, the State Department likely operates the world's largest facial recognition identity management program. And its work in that area will continue with the help of Identix Inc.
A collection of technology?low light cameras, fiber optic links and video analytics?will be brought together to protect the Port of Baltimore in a new technology project.
It's a scenario that keeps politicians awake at night: A deadly form of avian flu mutates, spreads from birds to humans and sets off a global pandemic.
When they're not building missiles and fighter jets for the government, Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will be making weather forecasting a little easier.
Intelligence is an imperfect science. Just ask CIA or the 9/11 Commission. Or EDS Corp., the contractor tasked with wrangling thousands of legacy systems into the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet. When EDS started the job, the Navy thought it had about 5,000 applications to integrate. EDS found more than 100,000.
Aerial oblique photography has become dramatically more popular in recent months for homeland security and emergency preparedness, and at the moment, it seems the sky is the limit for this specialized imaging technology that lets users see front and side views of buildings and other geographic features.
It's a police lineup in the United States, and an identification parade in the United Kingdom. But whatever it's called, both have some things in common: Organizing volunteers to stand alongside suspects for witnesses to view is time-consuming, expensive and frustrating to law enforcement officials.
High Tower Software Inc.'s Security Event Manager 3210 appliance enables enterprise-level security managers to identify, prioritize and respond to attacks against systems and computer networks in real time.
A doctor walks into a small examination room where a patient waits. The doctor swipes her thumb over a biometric reader to make a wall-mounted notebook computer come alive. The patient's medical history comes up on the screen. After the exam, new information is typed into the notebook to update the record.
General Dynamics Corp. won a three-year, $28 million contract extension to continue its work with the Army Research Laboratory's Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance.
The back-to-back hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast this season are an object lesson on the importance of electronic medical records. Having electronic medical records might have cut the time needed to deliver health services to hurricane victims, and even reduced the cost of delivering those services, analysts and industry officials said.
