The Office of Management and Budget is recommending Microsoft's .Net and Java2 Enterprise Edition as possible architectures for its 24 e-government projects.
Steve Zaidman sighs when asked why the Federal Aviation Administration continues to take heat over its plans for modernizing the country's air traffic management systems.
The General Services Administration announced plans to have a prototype for its e-government authentication and digital signature initiative running by the end of the year.
Adobe Systems Inc. is talking with the National Archives and Records Administration about making its portable document format the archiving standard for file formats.
The standards board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association approved the communications "Bluetooth" specification for wireless personal area networks.
Companies that provide authentication services are pushing federal agencies to outsource digital certification to contractors, claiming that in-house solutions could end up costing more while not being interoperable with other agencies' systems.
For government resellers and distributors, the phrase "selling boxes" is no longer politically correct. The government is emphasizing solution-oriented purchasing these days, and resellers and distributors are changing to meet this need.
Good acting and high drama are making interactive training a success. Sharon Sloane is president and CEO of WILL Interactive Inc., which, with the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit created a new video-based simulation CD-ROM, "The Incident," in which users see how the decisions they make for the chief hostage negotiator play out in a true-to-life scenario, but before lives lie in the balance.
In little more than a year, prime contractor EDS has uncovered tens of thousands of legacy applications at Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program sites. Rick Rosenburg is leading the EDS effort to streamline and integrate the networks of the two services.
The FBI employee benefits information session is about to begin when Tom asks Pete, "What do you say if some dude's got a gun, and he's got someone hostage, and he says, 'I want a getaway car in 60 seconds or she dies.' "
In-Q-Tel, a Central Intelligence Agency initiative that invests in companies with technologies the agency may use, has signed a licensing agreement with Zaplet Inc., Redwood Shores, Calif.
The Army's virtual university for enlisted soldiers, eArmyU, met its first-year enrollment goals, providing online college courses to more than 12,000 students in 2001, the Army announced. "We are meeting our goals to create technology-savvy soldiers to support Army transformation, succeed on the digitized battlefield, enhance retention and help soldiers achieve academic degrees while they serve," said Thomas White, secretary of the Army.
