Chenega Technology Services Corp. is using a rapid integration platform from Cambridge, Mass.-based InterSystems Corp. in a pilot of the Defense Department's distributed network-centric architecture.
Honeywell Inc. plans to use mesh networking technology from Boston-based Ember Corp. in a $10 million Energy Department project to improve efficiency at industrial facilities.
In December, Microsoft Corp. announced it would no longer support several of its older products, including Windows 98. That means no more security patches, which, as everyone in the business knows, are some of the most important pieces of software that Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft develops.
	The Army has given a $730,000 Small Business Innovation Research award to Universal Display Corp., Ewing, N.J., to accelerate development of small, flexible color LED displays. Universal Display develops organic, light-emitting diode, flat-panel computer displays. It is also in the early stages of making flexible, thin-film-transistor backplanes out of metal foil. Such displays could be rolled up into pen size and attached to a soldier's clothing with Velcro, said Janice Mahon, vice president of technology commercialization for the company.
Juniper Networks Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., is spearheading development of a new set of standards to guarantee service quality for multimedia applications running over the Internet.
	Portfolio management software is the newest information technology in the integrator tool kit, according to Robert Manchise, chief scientist for Anteon International Corp., Fairfax, Va. This software uses metrics to calculate the return of investment of newly implemented processes. The software can pinpoint the savings from new systems, such as reducing manpower or maintenance costs.
Despite more rigorous checking of cargo moving through U.S.-Canadian border points since Sept. 11, 2001, the Customs and Border Protection Bureau is reducing the time for freight border checks at some locations, thanks to a new initiative overseen by the ITS Services Inc., Springfield, Va.
There are tens of millions of disabled workers and potential workers in the United States, and tens of millions more who could benefit from being able to communicate or learn more easily using computers.
When Kodak recently put the name "NuVue" and duPont adopted "Olight" for their respective versions of Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) technologies, the end of the cathode ray tube (CRT) era edged a step closer.
Global Internetworking Inc., Vienna, Va., has introduced a Web portal for service providers that offers instant price quotes for private line, Ethernet and Internet-protocol conduits within the United States. 		Access to real-time quotes allows providers to be more flexible in quoting connectivity prices to customers, according to Todd Vecchio, Global's executive vice president of sales. Global operates as a neutral broker for more than 1,300 carriers, services providers, agencies and private companies. The portal is at http://www.pop2pop.com.
Integral Systems Inc., Lanham, Md., will release a version of its satellite management software for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating systems. Long run under Unix platforms, Epoch provides command, control and analysis functions to operate satellites.
Citrix Systems Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has added collaboration capability to its MetaFrame legacy interfacing software. Deploying MetaFrame, users run legacy applications from a virtual terminal on personal computers or laptops. The terminal shows screen shots of the legacy application that are updated 15 times per second. Conferencing Manager allows several parties to tap into one application at the same time.
When job seekers and employers come to the Labor Department's employment and training Web site, they need to do more than just search HTML pages. They need to search through documents that are in Word, PowerPoint or portable document formats.
Two years ago, few agencies required contractors to describe in their bids how people with disabilities would access the technology in the bid. But accessibility features now are part of the federal landscape with the enactment of regulations broadly referred to as "Section 508." Washington Technology explores the new business terrain created by the expanded requirements.
The Department of Homeland Security early next year will issue a broad agency announcement soliciting applications for wireless communications interoperability pilot projects around the country.
