Satellite communications solutions provider Stratos Global Corp. has formed a separate, wholly owned company to serve federal and state government agencies.
A recently released Defense Department report on technology development methodologies advocates more use of open-source software and suggests ways it can be incorporated into the procurement cycle.
On June 20 DOT and DHS officials will run an exercise with less than 200 port workers and seafarers at ports in Baltimore, Jacksonville, Fla., and Norfolk, Va., to see how identification cards with different types of tokens work in disparate environments.
The Agriculture Department is seeking information about applications that can automate farm program business delivery, including eligibility for benefit payments.
The Homeland Security Department is looking to IT companies for ideas on building a second, redundant data center to supplement the one it operates under an agreement with the Navy.
Microsoft Corp. said it is working on a set of plug-ins that would allow Microsoft Office applications to open and save documents in the Open Document Format.
ChoicePoint Inc.'s acquisition of USCerts, a Web-based vital-records system, will help the company meet a growing demand for document verification services to determine a person's age and identity.
Tyler Technologies Inc. will re-evaluate 6,400 commercial and industrial properties for Utah County, Utah, through an outsourcing contract worth $1.2 million.
Guident Technologies Inc. won a five-year, $4.9 million task order from the Energy Department's Los Alamos Laboratory to deliver service support for Oracle solutions.
CGI-AMS will supply an enterprise resource planning software suite to the city and county of Honolulu through a two and one-half year contract worth $10 million.
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
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.
Satellite service provider Inmarsat PLC is touting its Broadband Global Area Network, which offers speeds of up to 492 Kbps for data and switched-voice channels, for military and first-responder use.
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font> Computer Sciences Corp. will develop a system for sharing case-related information among agencies, partners and others under a task with the Justice Department.
Hansen Technologies Inc. of Rancho Cordoba, Calif., won a contract from the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to install an enterprise asset management software system to help maintain both the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway.
