Micromuse Inc. won a $15 million subcontract from Eyak Technology Inc. to provide infrastructure service management and assurance for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command transformation project
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified OpenSSL, an open-source library of encryption algorithms, as meeting Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Level 1 standards, according to the Open Source Software Institute.
LANDesk Software, a provider of integrated systems and security management solutions, acquired NewRoad Software Inc., a company that delivers business process management and workflow automation solutions.
Hansen Information Technologies Inc. won a contract from the city of Boston to deploy a citizen relationship management solution for its Inspectional Services Department.
Open-source project leaders could use these results to fix software defects, while agency and critical infrastructure IT shops could monitor them to evaluate or take corrective action on applications.
Northrop Grumman Corp. won a five-year, $30 million task order to provide the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with software services aimed at improving supercomputer efficiency.
Avineon Inc. won an extension of its subcontract with Harris Corp. worth more than $3 million to provide geographic information systems support to update Census Bureau databases.
The Windows Meta File vulnerability is particularly dangerous because computers can become infected by displaying images containing malicious code on Web sites and in e-mail or other files.
Beating out Unix stalwarts Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp. has topped a customer satisfaction poll of data center Unix administrators.
The IRS is continuing to develop applications to advance its modernization efforts, while beginning to simplify the increasing complexity of the modernization process.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are joining forces to market a new public safety software package to fire departments on Microsoft's .NET platform.
HHS wants to learn about product functionalities, technical architectures and system requirements, and how these products would interoperate with or supplement existing identity management and physical access systems.
Tier Technologies Inc. has won a $2.6 million, 26-month contract to provide the Contra Costa County Employees Retirement Association with a new pension administration system.
The Defense Department is conducting research on commercially available technology products for a telepharmacy application for its Military Health System.
Connecting the dots against terrorism became a major industry after Sept. 11, 2001. The market for intelligence and security informatics IT is now $1 billion a year, according to a new report.
State and local government spending on tax, revenue and collection systems will grow by more than $200 million from 2006 to 2010, according to a report released this week by the market research firm Input Inc.
The Homeland Security Department has certified several IT-related products and services under the Support for Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act, or Safety Act, in recent weeks.
Windows Cluster Server is based on the Windows Server 2003 server software, but has additional features that allow computers to be yoked together to work in parallel on computationally intensive tasks.
