The Army will spend $2.1 billion on the Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program to let its installations tie into DISA's Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program, Army CIO Lt. Gen. Steven Boutelle said this month at the <I>Government Computer News</I> 2004 Enterprise Architecture Conference in Washington.
Denver seeks CRM system. The city and county of Denver want to develop a customer relationship management system that lets citizens and businesses interact with local government via the Web, e-mail, phone, fax and in person.
Desktop and server operating systems always have been the black holes of the software world. They tend to absorb useful utilities, technologies and practical applications of day-to-day computing.
Think you've got a major project on your hands? Try accounting for the nation's more than 294 million citizens, which is the Census Bureau's mission in life. Tallying the U.S. population, mapping it and breaking it down takes significant planning.
Optical fiber is the future, but old-fashioned copper wiring can still carry plenty of juice ? especially now that the new IEEE 802.3ah standard has taken effect.
By aggregating the services of 30 North American cellular providers, Aeris.net of San Jose, Calif., has built what executives consider the largest wide area, wireless network for carrying machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, there has been a steady stream of proposals to structurally and operationally reform the U.S. intelligence community. Now, with Congress and the president focused on implementing at least some of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, reform has gained new ? and possibly unstoppable ? momentum.
Sun Microsystems Inc. this month opened an iForce Government Solution Center in McLean, Va., inviting systems integrators and federal officials to view thin-client interoperability demonstrations and test proof-of-concept applications.
In October, Darleen Druyun, a former Air Force procurement officer and former Boeing Co. executive, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison for helping Boeing win Air Force business at the same time she was negotiating a job with the company.
The Air Force wants off-the-shelf products for infrared technology for troubleshooting aircraft malfunctions and discrepancies. The Air Warfare Battlelab at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho is investigating using the technology in both back shop and flight maintenance environments to help find and repair electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, environmental and other malfunctions.
Women in Technology's Fifth Annual Charity Golf Event at Westfield's Golf Club, Clifton, Va., Oct. 4, was also the kickoff for fundraising of The Women and Girls in Technology Education Foundation, a new not-for-profit foundation.
Contractors that want to pursue large information technology projects in the state of New York should consider multiagency initiatives, said Chief Information Officer Jim Dillon.
Jim Dillon knows how government works. After 26 years in state government, he understands that consensus and collaboration work more effectively than coercion. So nearly three years ago, when Dillon accepted the job as New York state's first chief information officer, one of his first moves was to establish the New York State CIO Council to coordinate technology plans among the multitude of state organizations.
