We don't have Dick Tracy watches and holographic Star Trek displays, but videoconferencing is finally beginning to live up to its decades-old potential. You can thank the Internet again, or, more precisely, the Internet Protocol behind it. Besides data, both private and public IP networks are increasingly handling telephony traffic as telecom carriers and IT departments seek cheap, worldwide access over now-ubiquitous broadband connections.
The U.S. military's huge demand for satellite services is driving a wave of acquisitions among large providers trying to capitalize on the growing federal market.
Undeniably, the cash has flowed over the past three years as defense and government IT companies have participated in an active mergers and acquisitions market. But in an estimated one-fourth of those transactions, the flow has tended toward non-cash payments.
The telecommunications industry is once again in a state of flux. Still acclimating to the flood of competition unleashed by the 1996 Telecommunications Act and licking its wounds from a scandal-tainted 2000 market crash, the industry now must grapple with how best to deliver a wide variety of services over a changing network infrastructure.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded a $7.3 million order to EarthData International LLC for imagery and data models describing the Earth's surface, the Defense Department said today.
Al Edmonds, EDS Corp.'s vice president of government operations, will retire from the company this summer, EDS announced today. Edmonds has led the U.S. government group for the past six years.
The General Services Administration is reviewing the CACI International Inc. contract the Army used to hire interrogators working at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Marc Bailey, associate director of national federal sales, has more than 20 years of experience in government account management and sales and experience in the wireless industry.
Consortium of software vendors, researchers and consultants hopes to address issues such as what role ? if any ? the government should play in vulnerability reporting.
