<FONT SIZE=2>When teenagers drag racing in the street knocked out a power box to a Santa Clara County, Calif., adult education center early one evening last November, the school system's network manager was paged within minutes automatically. An Ion infrastructure security system noticed the outage and sent an alert. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>To complement to its Milsearch government personnel directories, Carroll Publishing, Bethesda, Md., has added full-text, Web-based searching of summaries of Defense Department research and development initiatives. The site will allow a program manager or business development manager to move through research and development programs to find contracting and requirements managers. The site also includes organization charts, mission statements, addresses, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses, said Ron Weston, Carroll's editor and product manager for the service. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Mitre Corp., Bedford, Mass., has developed Web browser software to track in near real-time the progress of Global Hawk or Predator unmanned aerial vehicles. Specifically, the program tracks intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data gathered by a vehicle during a mission. Such data can also be pushed to other command and control systems. The work was completed under joint funding from the Air Force and Army. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>The new book, "Creating Applications with Mozilla," from O'Reilly & Associates Inc., Sebastopol, Calif., highlights how to use the Mozilla Web browser as a base for building other programs. In 1998, Netscape Communications Corp. released the source code to its Communicator software. Since then, a mostly volunteer-led effort has been extending the development framework of the open-source version of the Web browser, called Mozilla. By using Web standards and scripting languages, programs can be written to work on any computer, regardless of the underlying operating system.</FONT>
At first glance, enterprise database systems seem to be super-sized versions of popular desktop database applications, such as Microsoft Access. But they have distinct differences.
Information technology takes up the largest share of all research to be funded by the National Science Foundation in its proposed 2004 budget of $5.5 billion.
<FONT SIZE=2>In a world filled with uncertainty, one thing seems to be a sure bet: 2003 will be the year of wireless networking in offices and campuses around the country.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>With 16,000 inmates spread out among 20 institutions, the Colorado Department of Corrections needed a way to make inmate records available to all its facilities. It also needed a way to more quickly compile statistical reports. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Silicon Graphics Inc. is trying to break open a new government market for high-end computers with a new technology that aggregates memory banks of multiple Linux machines. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Eedo Knowledgeware Corp., Nashua, N.H., is providing $39,500 of Web-enabled training and simulation tools to the contracting team building the Army's RAH-66 Comanche helicopter. The team, comprised of the Chicago-based Boeing Co. and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., Hartford, Conn., will supply the Army Aviation division with 1,000 hours of Web-enabled learning content along with the helicopters, for both maintenance crews and operators of the craft. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Veridian Corp., Arlington, Va., signed a cooperative research and development agreement with the Air Force to help market a whole-body laser-scanning technology to the commercial sector. The research, completed by the Air Force Research Laboratory Human Effectiveness Directorate, uses 3-D laser-scanning technology to quickly obtain precise measurements of the human body. Veridian said it can be used to support ergonomic research for clothing, equipment and vehicles.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>	Several new released products meet the new Serial Advanced Technology Attachment specification, which is used to connect computer mainboards to disk drives and other internal devices. Traditionally, the connections are handled by a ribbon bus using the integrated drive electronics specification. The new protocol will lead to a smaller bus and connector, faster data transfers and "hot-plug" capability, according to the Serial ATA Working Group.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Web site and e-mail traffic spiked Sept. 11, 2001. Worldwide, people were trying to find out what happened and locate loved ones after terrorists struck New York and Washington. But accurate information was hard to find, and some communications systems overloaded, including government Web sites.</FONT>
Two potentially disruptive technologies watched closely by government systems integrators today are open-source software and nanotechnology. Each holds the promise of radically changing the landscape of information technology.</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>The concept of open-source software, for example, challenges many notions about how software should be created and sold. "If you are an entrenched proprietary software vendor, this paradigm shift can be alarming," said <b>John Weathersby</b>, chairman of the Oxford, Miss.-based Open Source Software Institute.</FONT>
At a trade show best known for its exuberant DVD and dramatic car stereo demonstrations, the spotlight on intelligence network security, Defense Department biometric systems and liquid container verification seemed an aberration.
<FONT SIZE=2>These are the markets that spurred companies to make acquisitions, restructure operations and invest new resources. Here's where IT executives expect to make money.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Integrated development environments have been popular tools for programmers since the late 1980s. They are useful for writing, compiling and debugging codes.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>The Immigration and Naturalization Service human resources operation was struggling with poor service and staff defections when the agency in July turned to a Web-based HR service provided by Avue Technologies Corp. of Tacoma, Wash.</FONT>
