By aggregating the services of 30 North American cellular providers, Aeris.net of San Jose, Calif., has built what executives consider the largest wide area, wireless network for carrying machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.
Building an Internet in space will take 20 years and will require surmounting of significant hurdles, according to Michael Regan, head of the National Reconnaissance Office's communications integration office.
In late October, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, led in the United States by the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Energy Department, published a scientific summary of the finished human genome sequence, reducing the estimated number of human protein-coding genes from 35,000 to 25,000.
Conventional wisdom identifies rocket science and brain surgery as rigorous disciplines that should be avoided by all but the very brightest. But it is biology and deciphering life's genetic code, with a bewildering array of molecular interactions and expressions that scientists are just beginning to understand, that may prove the greatest intellectual challenge.
Integrators and agencies can expect a commercial version of Linux that meets government requirements for handling classified material to hit the market early next year.
SGI this month launched a line of visualization systems that can handle terabyte-size data sets using off-the-shelf technologies and open-source software. The Silicon Graphics Prism combines the company's advanced graphics capabilities with Intel Itanium 2 processors and the Linux operating system to put high-end visual computing tools in the hands of a wide variety of government users.
Fortress Technologies Inc. of Oldmar, Fla., snapped up technology from defunct Legra Systems Inc. to bolster its line of secure wireless networking switches.
The benefits of document management software are well known: It improves workflow, increases productivity and enhances collaboration inside government agencies. Where system integrators can add value is in extending document management beyond an agency's walls to include other agencies or outside contractors.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will issue a request for proposals to establish enterprise data center services as part of its modernization effort.
When Dawn Meyerriecks, then chief technology officer of the Defense Information Systems Agency, was briefing industry executives last summer on DISA's Network-Centric Enterprise Services initiative, she warned them that the Defense Department didn't want contractors to offer competing standards when proposing solutions.
Since the first President George Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, agencies and businesses have been under pressure and progressively tighter regulations to make goods, employment and services available to the disabled.
Two companies have meshed their products and provided the integrated tools to the government for tests sharing sensitive geospatial data. ESRI is contributing its ArcGIS software for geospatial information systems and Swan Island Networks Inc. will provide security and digital rights management.
BAE Systems plc won a five-year contract from the Army to build 484 Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures and Common Missile Warning Systems that provide missile warning and directable jamming capabilities to defend aircraft.
Although election officials agree that e-voting security measures need strengthening, no clear consensus has emerged over how it should be done, analysts and government officials said.
U.S. elections have always been controversial, especially when it comes to deciding who gets to vote and how votes are counted, said Larry Bird, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
