The U.S. military's huge demand for satellite services is driving a wave of acquisitions among large providers trying to capitalize on the growing federal market.
The telecommunications industry is once again in a state of flux. Still acclimating to the flood of competition unleashed by the 1996 Telecommunications Act and licking its wounds from a scandal-tainted 2000 market crash, the industry now must grapple with how best to deliver a wide variety of services over a changing network infrastructure.
AT&T Corp.'s government unit will likely reveal its strategy for offering branded wireless services to its federal customers later this year when the merger of the company's wireless unit with Cingular Wireless LLC is complete.
The government should tap the expertise of private industry when it develops continuity of operations plans, an AT&T Corp. executive told Congress last month.
The Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology Directorate April 26 released a document outlining technology requirements for public safety wireless communications and interoperability.
A team of researchers developing optical routing technologies that could accelerate significantly the next-generation Internet received a $6.3 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.
The General Services Administration is not ready to unveil the strategic changes it will make to a $10 billion government-wide telecommunications and network services buy.
The Marine Corps is looking for a vendor to provide wireless network equipment for its Sea Viking war game. Future war games will also require these wireless technologies, which will be incorporated into all unclassified games. The Sea Viking war game requires a large, powerful local area network.
MCI Inc., Ashburn, Va., has partnered with Mountain View, Calif.-based VeriSign Inc. to deliver a new suite of security solutions for telecommunications customers, the company said.
High-speed fiber-optic lines pass within one mile of an estimated 75 percent of the nation's commercial and government buildings. However, less than 10 percent of those buildings have fiber connections and, depending on whose research you look at, that figure could be as low as 3 percent.
Government agencies and integrators have yet another company to consider as they upgrade to faster network infrastructures. Milpitas, Calif.-based Force10 Networks has jumped into the government market with its new E series high-speed switches and routers.
Voice-over-Internet services will dominate the telecommunications industry and alter telecom policy in the United States over the next few years, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says.
The Storage Networking Industry Association is working overtime to sell its storage management solution to vendors, application developers and users. To date, proprietary systems have made up the bulk of management tools for storage area network users. Buyers are locked into their platforms, which can be frustrating and expensive.
American Management Systems Inc. of Fairfax, Va., won a $24 million order from the Justice Department for its Momentum enterprise resource planning software, company officials said today.
Widespread use of radio frequency identification technology throughout commercial industry could help the Homeland Security Department do its job better, a department official said today.
During late-night debates or heated committee hearings, state legislators in North Dakota can use a new system to keep track of the latest bill amendments.
Imagine if the federal, state and local agencies tasked with protecting citizens could share information as easily as music pirates swap illegal recordings online. In the days surrounding New Year's 2004, they did.
The skies of tomorrow's battlefields will be darkened by swarms of networked, self-propelled attack aircraft, if research that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants comes to fruition.
