Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas sizzles in the desert sun. Temperatures at this Air Combat Command base consistently rocket to over 100 degrees in the summer months, conditions that lend new meaning to the term "bake-off."
Computas NA Inc., Sammamish, Wash., is developing a capital asset planning and business case model for its Metis Enterprise visual modeling toolset. The company plans to demonstrate a prototype at FOSE in Washington March 23-25. FOSE is produced by PostNewsweek Tech Media, parent company of Washington Technology.
Voice over IP vendor Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, N.J., has integrated session initiation protocol into its latest products through its new Avaya Converged Communications Server. SIP allows agencies to employ presence awareness across IP phones and other devices so people can indicate whether they are available and how they can be reached--via phone, instant message or other communication method. If a manager needs to schedule a phone conference, he can see who is available based on presence icons.
Canon U.S.A. Inc., Lake Success, N.Y., has a new, low-cost line of free space optics systems that deliver high-speed "last mile" connectivity. The Canobeam DT-100 Series of optical beam transceivers are suited to situations where traditional bandwidth is insufficient, laying optical fiber is cost prohibitive, or agencies need redundant connections.
A new, mobile, digital video system from Schaumberg, Ill.-based Motorola Inc. will let police shoot full-motion video from their cars and transmit the images to headquarters.
Boeing Co. aims to capture half of the $200 billion the Pentagon is expected to spend on network-centric operations during the next 10 years, a Boeing official said.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has teamed with Siemens Dematic Postal Automation LP, Arlington, Texas, to compete in the Postal Service's Flats Sequencing System/Delivery Point Packaging program.
Voice over IP technology took a step toward acceptance for military command and control applications when the Defense Department certified that solutions from Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Avaya Inc. met security requirements.
The federal government's proposed $10 billion Networx telecommunications and networking program could get a dramatic makeover following a General Services Administration review of industry complaints and suggestions.
Pundits often throw out the phrase "digital convergence" to describe how Internet and computing technologies are changing everything from television to telephone calls.
When IT professionals think load balancing, they think of hardware and software that keeps network traffic from overrunning a single server. For St. Louis first responders, load balancing means ensuring hospitals don't become inundated with patients in the event of a disaster.
Atlanta-based CipherTrust Inc. is selling a new version of its secure e-mail gateway appliance for protecting enterprise networks. IronMail 4.0 includes new spam detection technologies and a unique algorithm that automatically tunes the product's spam profiler to maximize effectiveness and minimize false positives.
The Naval Air Systems Command recently built a pair of applications using business intelligence and performance management tools from Ottawa-based Cognos Inc. The Aviation Readiness Model helps users monitor readiness across all aircraft and aviation inventory. The Component Analysis Model allows deeper analysis of component readiness across the fleet. Senior military personnel can view the data through a dashboard application.
Communications startup Segovia Inc. of Herndon, Va., has built a global network architecture that allows it to quickly deploy broadband services worldwide. From its network center in Virginia, Segovia offers a variety of voice and data services for a monthly fee using bandwidth from commercial satellites. The company serves the Defense, State and Homeland Security departments and has partnered with GTSI Corp. and Sprint Corp. to sell and deploy its services. It is available through a variety of contracting vehicles, including FTS2001, which is administered by the General Services Administration.
Listen closely. That's the sound of the Homeland Security Department powering down its $10 million Patch Authentication and Dissemination Capability program.
The Food and Drug Administration is eyeing radio frequency identification technology as a means of tracking prescription drugs and preventing the spread of counterfeit drugs, according to a report issued yesterday.
Blade servers have come on like gangbusters in the last year, for two good reasons: They can save you space and money.According to a report from International Data Corp. of Framingham, Mass., blade servers make up the fastest-growing server market segment, expanding 763 percent from year to year. It estimated that blades will account for more than one quarter of the total server market by 2007.
Arinc Inc.'s JADE standard describes how bar code technology can be used to encode, print, and decode passenger data normally on magnetic-stripe boarding passes.
