Customer relationship management is crossing into government as agencies facing e-government mandates have come to appreciate the benefits of streamlined, cheaper, more effective contact with constituents.
Federal, state and local governments often have discrete GIS groups working on task-specific GIS initiatives. But as geospatial data becomes increasingly important to all types of agencies, integrators are called on to marry disparate GIS projects and build applications that take advantage of unified geospatial information.
Having chipped away at the network-attached storage market with its Windows Storage Server 2003, is preparing a product for the low-end, disk-based storage segment.
Executives from 28 companies in the United States and Europe have pledged their intention to work together to build interoperable systems for the Defense Department and other government agencies.
IBM Corp.'s BlueGene/L supercomputer, which the company is building for the Energy Department, clocks in at slightly more than 36 teraflops, or trillions of operations per second, making it faster than Japan's Earth Simulator, IBM said last month.
IBM Corp. said today that its BlueGene/L supercomputer, which the company is building for the Energy Department, is faster than Japan's Earth Simulator, clocking in at slightly more than 36 teraflops, or trillions of operations per second.
Two research centers that will apply the techniques of life sciences to Internet security are among 33 new projects the National Science Foundation will fund in its latest round of grants under the Cyber Trust Program.
If your computing workload consists mainly of word processing with a daily dose of Web surfing or e-mail checks, the 15- or 17-inch LCD monitor that comes bundled with many PCs might be all you'll ever need.
When chasing IT contracts, it can be hard to make one proposal stand out from the rest. Server consolidation, disaster recovery and similar technology initiatives are fairly well understood and not very glamorous.
These days, continuity of operations requires disaster recovery sites miles from the data centers they back up. Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., last week shipped a pair of new products to improve transmission of storage area network traffic outside the data center.
Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., won a $6.6 million research and development contract to work on the Defense Department's Polymorphic Computing Agent Architecture program, the agency said.
During a Baltimore conference last summer of 1,000 Homeland Security Department workers, Robert West, the agency's chief information security officer, made the rounds at an after-hours social event.
The State Department, already bumping up against the memory limits of the smart cards it uses today, is looking to the next generation of technology to support its future needs.
The Canada Border Service Agency, which is working on a Registered Traveler-style pilot program with the U.S. Homeland Security Department, is implementing iris-scanning technology at Canadian airports to verify the identity of travelers.
ObjectVideo Inc. has snagged another round of funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue developing of nighttime video surveillance technology.
The daily volume of Internet attacks dropped off in the first half of this year, and the rate at which new vulnerabilities are being reported appears to have hit a plateau, but new problems are on the rise.
