With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicting that 2006 will be "a very active hurricane season," it's more urgent than ever that supercomputers used to predict the paths of storms be ready for their task.
The Cleveland Finance Department wants a contractor to build a Web-based procurement system that is compatible with PeopleSoft programs. A request for proposals is expected in late 2006.
NASA's SEWP IV contract could become the government's IT product purchasing vehicle of choice, surpassing General Services Administration schedules and other agency contracts ? so says not only NASA, but also companies on the SEWP III program and those planning to bid on its successor.
The General Services Administration needs local telecommunications services for federal agencies in New York and New Jersey. The contracts will replace the Metropolitan Area Acquisition contracts.
It's déjà vu all over again for companies that regularly do business with state and local governments: Will the state agency negotiate mutually agreeable indemnification and limitation of liability provisions?
The Secure Border Initiative project is at its most tranquil stage right now. The bids are in, teams are in place. Everyone is talking about what they can do and why they can do it better than anyone else.
With billions of dollars, major corporate reputations and thousands of contracting jobs at stake, the Secure Border Initiative Network is off to a running start.
Eric Cole of Lockheed Martin suggests that organizations put far more effort into identifying vulnerabilities and securing them as the only effective way to protect against multiplying threats, as well as fully integrate security into every layer of organizational IT.
As existing telephone equipment reaches the end of its supported life, it is only a matter of time before carriers and enterprises will be forced to move voice traffic to IP?whether they want to or not
The Labor Department has formally issued a solicitation seeking a vendor to provide Personal Identity Verification cards to agency employees and contractors.
With interest growing in municipal wireless networking, new schemes are being proposed to solve problems with range, bandwidth, scalability, mobility and complexity in current WiFi deployments.
As users of mobile devices become more dependent on access to remote resources, the growing demand for bandwidth could threaten the economic viability of the emerging wireless data industry, one of the industry's founders warns.
The dismembered AT&T Corp. has coalesced into a unified telecommunications entity. But the world into which the new AT&T has emerged is drastically different from the one it once ruled.
The General Services Administration's new administrator said she will work quickly and undertake several initiatives to improve how the agency interacts with industry.
