General Dynamics Corp. won two contracts totaling $2.7 million from the Army to develop and equip an advanced combat-helmet system for vehicle crewman.
Cities have used 311 information lines and dedicated call centers for more than a decade to let citizens call in complaints about everything from trash pickup to stray animals.
Imagine relaxing on the sofa in your living room with a notebook computer on your lap. Tomorrow is Election Day, so you pull up a ballot from the Web and fill it out anonymously. If you're not sure about bond issue No. 4, you've got time to research it.
Not long ago, investigators at the Louisiana Social Services Department would spend hundreds of hours poring over documents to uncover evidence of food-stamp fraud.
To believe a certain series of television commercials designed to promote a "videoconference phone," setting up a full-blown videoconference is about as easy as planning a trip to Neptune.
The General Services Administration will set up a lab under the E-Authentication e-government initiative to test commercial products that perform certificate path discovery and validation services.
The past year has seen unprecedented consolidation in the IT security field, especially in the antivirus business, where big companies have gobbled up innovative small companies.
DRS Technologies Inc. won a contract to develop infrared sensor modules that will support the Wide-field Infrared Survey Experiment (WISE) mission of the NASA Medium Explorer program.
Biometric iris scans may be ineffective for up to one million people in the United Kingdom who are blind or have visual impairments such as cataracts, according to a report from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Pointsec Mobile Technologies Inc., a provider of security software for such devices as personal digital assistants and mobile phones, will supply its security technology for the Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care.
SRI International Inc. won a two-year, $12 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an automated medical treatment system for the battlefield that does not require onsite medical personnel.
Cars paying electronically as they zip through a toll booth might be just the tip of the iceberg of the many ways state and local governments can use radio frequency identification technology.
The best thing about migrating to 64-bit computing might be that you don't have to do it in one great leap. A new class of dual-processor servers using Opteron and Xeon chips lets you make the move incrementally.
