<FONT SIZE=2>	The latest version of the popular multimedia editor offered by Macromedia Inc., San Francisco, includes accessibility features that will help agencies meet Section 508 compliance, according to Bob Regan, senior product manager for accessibility for the company. Macromedia Director MX features an editing procedure that requires editors to enclose written descriptions of the visual material being posted. Accessibility settings can also be set across entire Web sites. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>	Through a Navy-sponsored Small Business Innovation Research award, Isothermal Systems Research of Clarkston, Wash., has developed an enclosure for electronic components that dissipates the heat they generate far more effectively than cooling fans, according to the company. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>	A technical committee to foster standards for exchanging tax information using extensible markup language has been formed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or Oasis. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2> Throw out the crystal ball. High-tech executives will have to rely on instinct, experience and up-to-the-minute intelligence to navigate the government IT market in 2003.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Uncertainty and opportunity. The yin and yang for 2003.</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>The opportunities are huge in the $ 53.3 billion federal information technology market. Whether it is the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, more outsourcing or the increasing emphasis on e-government, IT will play a central role.</FONT>
After 66 years under the aegis of the Illinois Institute of Technology, the non-profit consulting company IIT Research Institute has spun off into a new, employee-owned business.
Cray Inc., Seattle, won a $16.4 million contract to provide a supercomputer system and support to the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. Cray will install its newly released X1 supercomputer system in stages through 2003. The company will also provide maintenance for other Cray supercomputers already owned by the center.
<FONT SIZE=2>Ask Verle Hammond about logistics, and he replies: "Steaks and ice cream."</font><!--/STORY--><!--STORY--><FONT SIZE=2>Before founding Innovative Logistics Techniques Inc. in 1989, Hammond spent 28 years as a logistics officer for the Army, rising to the position of staff officer for the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics. Most memorable, however, was his tour of duty in Vietnam, where he was assigned to the First Infantry Division in 1966 and 1967.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Officially called the National Distress and Response System Modernization Project, Rescue 21 is the equivalent of a 911 emergency system for boaters. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>When L&E Associates learned about the Coast Guard's Rescue 21 modernization effort to upgrade its 30-year-old search and rescue communications system, the company was determined to find a way to be a part of it.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>When a variant of the infamous Klez virus, called Klex, wormed its way through e-mailboxes last April, it didn't creep into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And when a little-known buffer overflow in the Solaris operating system came to light last June, no hacker could have exploited it to compromise a CDC system. That's because the agency's servers were already patched.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Aiming to engender new surveillance and other intelligence solutions, Ultraview Corp., Orindam, Calif., has released an acquisition board that can take in 1.25 gigasamples per second and hold up to 8 gigabytes of analog data, about 100 times the storage capability of other boards, according to the company. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>A poorly designed intranet can cost an organization dearly in productivity, according to a study from the Nielsen Norman Group, Fremont, Calif.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>The National Telecommunications and Information Administration released software that measures the quality of digital video pictures. NTIA hopes the tools will be used as a standard for gauging the quality of output for computer and television monitors as well as hand-held devices. The American National Standards Institute has adopted these tools as a telecommunications standard.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>When NASA teamed with the Coast Guard to demonstrate mobile Internet networking in Cleveland last month, more than 100 people braved the cold and wind at a Lake Erie harbor to watch Coast Guard commanders wirelessly send information between ship and shore.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>When the Bush administration in June resolved to create a Department of Homeland Security, it proposed giving the department special authority to use "flexible" procurement practices. The administration proposed that the agency generally would follow existing, governmentwide procurement laws, but would have broad authority to deviate from them if they would impair the agency's mission or operations.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Managing a large software project is difficult enough, but managing one in which the developers work in two different states is even more of a challenge. </FONT>
