MultiGen-Paradigm Inc., a San Jose, Calif., provider of real-time, 3D, visual simulation software, has created prototype night-vision-goggle simulation software for the F-16 Mission Training Centers for the Air Force.
Year after year, it's one of the leading types of airplane accidents: controlled flight into terrain. Pilots cannot see obstructions or they lose the horizon, and fatal accidents occur.
Printers have come a long way since the days when lumbering impact printers attached to mainframes, and non-networked PCs pumped out ASCII text symbols on reams of paper that jammed almost as often as not.
The Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board is reworking the National Institute of Standards and Technology's draft standard for governmentwide identification cards.
FEI Company will be the research and development partner in a project funded by the Energy Department to build the highest-resolution scanning and transmission electron microscope to date.
Sandia National Laboratories wants information on licensing, manufacturing and selling integrated hardware and software architecture, called Sensor Management Architecture, to support sensor network integration and control. Sandia's architecture was designed to support weapons of mass destruction detection technologies into unified sensor networks.
The Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center wants help developing advanced armament and energetics technology and with systems engineering and manufacturing processes to support its industrial base.
Robert Taylor needs eyes in the back of his head to manage network security for Fulton County, Ga., home of the state capital Atlanta. The sprawling, 530-square-mile county, which includes an airport and a jail that rank among the busiest in the nation, has a similarly sprawling IT infrastructure.
Akonix Systems Inc. launched a new system to block unmanaged access to instant messages and peer-to-peer file sharing. Akonix Enforcer v4.0 protects against risks from the unauthorized use of IM and P2P protocols such as eDonkey and BitTorrent.
A provider of satellite-based tracking, tracing, messaging and security services for ships, trucks and utilities received Coast Guard approval for its Ocean Alert Ship Security Alert System.
New London, Conn.-based Ortronics Inc. has designed a wireless solution to integrate with cabling to provide security and centralized management, company officials said.
The National Security Agency is looking for analysis software to help it sort through the immense amount of data it collects, said NSA research director Eric Haseltine this month at a meeting of the Technology Council of Anne Arundel County, Md.
While Web-based applications solved the problem of how to get applications to users and centrally maintain them, they presented new technical challenges for the rapid application development tools needed to build and deploy them.
Search and categorization software provider Convera Corp. was awarded about $800,000 by the CIA's venture capital fund to expedite the development of distributed indexing capability.
Northrop Grumman Corp. and the Boeing Co. may work as a team in a competition to develop NASA's project to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond.
The National Security Agency is looking for analysis software to help it sort through the immense amount of data it collects, because commercial intelligence software just isn't powerful enough to do the job.
Desktop and server operating systems always have been the black holes of the software world. They tend to absorb useful utilities, technologies and practical applications of day-to-day computing.
Think you've got a major project on your hands? Try accounting for the nation's more than 294 million citizens, which is the Census Bureau's mission in life. Tallying the U.S. population, mapping it and breaking it down takes significant planning.
Optical fiber is the future, but old-fashioned copper wiring can still carry plenty of juice ? especially now that the new IEEE 802.3ah standard has taken effect.
