The skies of tomorrow's battlefields will be darkened by swarms of networked, self-propelled attack aircraft, if research that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants comes to fruition.
	Analysts estimate that government agencies write off millions of dollars in uncollected debt each year because of poor revenue management systems. PeopleSoft Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., wants to change that. <BR>
"Without something like this, border crossing guards are no better than a bouncer at a bar," said Reed Stager, vice president for public policy at Tualatin, Ore.-based Digimarc Corp. His company makes IDMarc, a digital watermarking technology that has been adopted by six states to enhance driver's license security.
	Agencies and integrators with significant investment and expertise in Unix can experiment with Linux while protecting their Unix base by using servers built on IBM Corp.'s Power 4 family of processors. The Power4 line runs IBM's eServer pSeries, which are high-performance Unix servers.
Most legacy human resources systems aim only at payroll processing and core functions, such as benefits administration. But new applications have supported the kinds of strategic planning and development that HR managers have been trying to implement in low-tech ways.
"Injury and Illness Recordkeeping Training," an Occupational Safety and Health Administration seminar, has been seen by more than 15,000 people ? mostly human resources and administrative personnel at companies affected by its requirements ? since its debut Dec. 12, 2001.
When Michael Jalbert came to E.F. Johnson Inc. in early 1999, the company was losing money, had been delisted from Nasdaq and was facing class action lawsuits from shareholders.
Managed security services firm NetSec Inc., Herndon, Va., is rolling out a reporting module to help agencies comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act.
Alhurra, the new Arabic-language, all-digital, satellite television network funded by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an independent federal agency, has chosen high-capacity storage servers from Dulles, Va.-based Inline Corp. to support its operations. The station, based in Virginia, was put together by Chantilly, Va.-based integrator TGS Inc. Programs are produced at the station, and then beamed via satellite to the Middle East.
Hughes Network Systems Inc., Germantown, Md., is pushing to increase adoption of the recently ratified Internet-protocol-over-satellite standard by licensing essential intellectual property royalty-free. The standard was approved by the Telecommunications Industry Association as the ideal for delivering broadband services over satellite channels.
As Defense Department agencies move to streamline supply-chain operations using wireless networks, they struggle to keep secure the growing number of 802.11b-based wireless networks.
Don't try to call the Washington Technology office this week. We'll be at FOSE, checking out the latest technologies and talking with industry and government leaders about their plans for the future.
Among the honorees for the Best New Technology awards to be given out this week at FOSE 2004 are products that address important government needs, from voice over IP and enterprise architecture initiatives to data security and network performance. These technologies, which solve challenges at a diverse pool of civilian and defense agencies, are the subject of an indepth look in this issue's lead story.
You can find plenty of powerful notebook PCs on vendor Web sites and retail shelves, and many of them are available at prices low enough to surprise you. But if you want exactly the right one for your requirements, do a little digging first.
The departments of Defense and Homeland Security are preparing four new communications and network projects that will generate billions of dollars in business for IT, wireless and telecom companies.
The Army Corps of Engineers is looking for a developer of Web-based tools to make better use of its geo-information system data. The tools will help in identifying and classifying roads and trails on military installations and modeling their impact on sedimentation within watersheds.
ESRI of Redlands, Calif., last month became the first vendor to sign on to SmartBuy, the federal government's enterprisewide software licensing initiative, following nine months of hard work by the company and federal agencies to create the agreement.
