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Air Force seeks new networking capabilities

The Air Force Research Laboratory wants to build a modular data network that can integrate everything from tactical unmanned aerial vehicles to ground forces.

DARPA issues a call for tech-savvy research proposals

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a broad agency announcement seeking research, development, design and testing proposals to be undertaken by the agency's Advanced Technology Office.

SAIC sells off content analysis unit

Science Applications International Corp. sold its content analysis product division and all related intellectual property to Content Analyst Company LLC.

Anteon to research aerospace structures

Anteon International Corp. won a six-year, $24 million Air Force contract to research and demonstrate new aerospace structural technologies.

Second life

Voice over IP almost didn't survive its overhyped debut in the last decade.

High speed over copper

A new cabling product can support 10 Gigabit Ethernet say developers of the technology from Systimax Solution, a subsidiary of CommScope Inc. with offices in North Carolina, Belgium and Brazil.

Flexible utility storage

Using a Linux platform, 3PAR Inc. of Fremont, Calif., has created a flexible utility storage solution. The 3PAR InServ Storage Server is a modular, Linux-based server that enables it to scale centralized data environments. Key to the design is a passive, full-mesh backplane that unifies multiple system resources for simple administration and automatic load balancing.

Software for wireless equipment

A new software platform is designed to help device manufacturers bring wireless LAN products to market faster and for a low price, said officials at Instant802 Networks Inc. in Brisbane, Calif.

Ready for take off

RFID and wireless security technologies will get a big push in 2005, thanks to developments that likely will spur new investment and growth in both areas.

Summit wins R&D work

Summit Research Corp. won a $3.2 million contract from the Army Space and Missile Defense Command for advanced weapons, sensors and airborne sensor technologies research and development.

SAIC to support AF microwave research

Science Applications International Corp. won a five-year, $49.9 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico to develop techniques and approaches for high-power microwave components and systems.

First TacSat launch delayed till March

The planned January debut of the Defense Department's first tactical microsatellite has been postponed at least a month, according to the vendor building a new, low-cost rocket to launch it.

A hit list of the year's top viruses

A malware hall of fame is the latest addition to the year's what's in and what's out lists. The Noomy.A worm nabbed the most sophisticated honors and the Zafi.D the most opportunistic.

Defense looking for advanced teleconferencing

The Defense Department is looking for ideas on how to use global videoconferencing technologies to enhance command and control.

DARPA funds dozens of new urban-warfare tools

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency late last week awarded 37 contracts for new urban-warfighting technologies.

Project: Wireless system for enforcement officers

Agency: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Tech success: Into the wild

Tasked with protecting 800,000 acres of pristine land at sites dispersed over Washington state, enforcement officers with the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife do not have the luxury of going to headquarters in Olympia every time they need to check a database or download a file.

Platform support for fingerprints

SecuGen Corp.'s Software Developer Kit, used to build biometric software applications that incorporate its fingerprint recognition technology, will support more platforms with its new release.

Mesh networking system available

Strix Systems Inc. released Access/One Network Outdoor Wireless System, a WiFi cellular system designed for outdoor deployments in public safety, rural and metropolitan are networks.