With the launch of Remington Arms Company Inc.'s technologies division, a new audio and video surveillance device hits the market, said officials from the Madison, N.C., company.
The prospect of people carrying many different biometric identification smart cards, each recognized by a single workplace or venue, doesn't seem so smart.<p> That's why the federal government is nudging ? some say pushing ? the biometrics industry toward greater interoperability, to make the cards scannable by multiple systems.
Congress is considering giving the Homeland Security Department secretary authority to loosen privacy regulations with an eye to creating a national identification card, a move the DHS privacy chief opposes.
IBM and Sun Microsystems are marketing on-demand computing services to agencies with a backlog of high-performance computing tasks, such as the departments of Energy and Defense.
What is to become of Metis, the popular modeling tool from Computas Technology Inc., now that Austin, Texas-based Troux Technologies Inc. has snapped it up? Agencies, including the Commerce, Defense, Health and Human Services and Treasury departments, use Computas' Metis software to map enterprise architectures.
Because Secure Sockets Layer encryption is built into Web browsers, its a low-cost way to protect Internet communications. It's also a convenient way to hide a network attack.
The Marine Corps Systems Command has selected N.E.T. Federal's Promina multiservice access and Shout900 IP telephony platforms for deployment in the Joint Enhanced Core Communication System.
Titan Corp. recently launched a mobile enterprise security system that allows secure storage, transmission and access of information in a mobile environment, officials from the San Diego company said.
Pitney Bowes Inc. launched a new data collection, track and trace solution to help police departments manage evidence and property, officials from the Stamford, Conn., company said.
Every day, medical staffs worldwide look to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology for help in making diagnoses based on samples of materials such as tumors and tissue.
Computer Sciences Corp. has formed an applied technology division to consolidate and integrate its operations that provide managed engineering services.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a five-year, $46.9 million follow-on contract from the Army Space and Missile Command to operate and maintain lasers and facility support systems used to test the effects of lasers against physical threats.
DRS Technologies Inc. received a $21.3 million order to provide rugged computer systems for the Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program.
Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $142 million follow-on contract from the Missile Defense Agency for systems engineering, planning and logistics support for its Airborne Laser boost-phase missile defense program.
