While Congress has not yet completed its appropriations work for fiscal 2004, one market research firm believes the upcoming year is going to be a strong one for information technology and technology-based services.
General Dynamics Corp. has created a C4 Systems business unit by combining two units that provide command and control systems, officials of the Falls Church, Va., company said this month. Merging General Dynamics' Decision Systems and C4 Systems units created the new business unit.
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 CIA's venture capital arm has negotiated a license for event detection and response software to help officials track information in multiple databases.
Force 3 Inc. has secured a $27.5 million revolving credit facility from Transamerica Distribution Finance Corp. to fund an expansion and working capital needs.
Improvement in the performance and reliability of face recognition biometrics is likely to encourage further deployment of the technology, a consulting firm predicts.
American Management Systems Inc. and Infoglide Software Corp. have formed an alliance to sell services and software to help intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
For NASA, it could be Sputnik all over again. China's successful launch of a manned spacecraft in October will help boost NASA's information technology budget during the next five years, according to a new report released by the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association.
Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday demonstrated iCommunicator, a PC application that accepts live voice input, converts it to on-screen text, then converts the text to video images of sign language.<br>
Microsoft Corp. today announced rewards of $250,000 each for the arrest of the writers of the SoBig and Blaster worms that attacked millions of computers running the company's Windows operating systems earlier this year.
Francis Joseph Harvey, a Maryland technology company executive, has been nominated to replace Defense Department CIO John Stenbit, who plans to retire.
