As cellular telephones become commonplace, the General Accounting Office says statistics about the quality of calls should be included in annual federal reports on the wireless industry.
Because of commercial interest in developing a telecommunications infrastructure in Iraq, the State Department says a telecom pact will not be among the postwar reconstruction contracts it is awarding.
Richard Notebaert, chairman and chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International Inc., has been appointed a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
The National Communications System has expanded coverage for its Wireless Priority Service for cellular phone users into the western and northeastern continental United States and Hawaii.
The first rule for IT leaders who are establishing the systems in the new Homeland Security Department is, "Do no harm," said Steve Cooper, the department's chief information officer.
As the war in Iraq draws to a close, the U.S. Agency for International Development is ramping up efforts to rebuild and modernize that country's infrastructure with projects that likely will include business for IT integrators.
A newly introduced line of network switches from Riverstone Networks Inc., Santa Clara Calif., could be used by integrators to compete against telecommunications service providers for agency contracts, the company says.
There are plenty of good reasons for creating enterprise architectures: Such models can take the sting out of integrating agency functions, launching new initiatives or just optimizing existing functions and IT investments.
Following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., read an Invizeon Corp. white paper describing its model for a Web-based program that would help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention share critical information with state and local health departments and private health care providers.
When military personnel ship out for the Persian Gulf, they now have their complete medical history waiting for them when they arrive, and every physician who treats them will have access to that information through laptop computers at medical facilities on the battlefield.
Sprint Communications Corp. is preparing to offer government customers a new IP-based intranet solution designed to meet the growing security and performance needs of federal and state agencies.
Unisys Corp. and the Transportation Security Administration IT teams are deploying integrated Internet-ready applications throughout airports, seaports and other TSA-run facilities
<FONT SIZE=2>The Defense Department CIO is expected to sign a policy next month that will set guidelines for using wireless devices across the department. The new policy will revise the Pentagon Area Common IT Wireless Security Policy signed last fall, said Dawn Meyerriecks, chief technology officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency. DOD users and vendors should find the departmentwide policy more comprehensive than the Pentagon policy, she said. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>In February, the White House issued the National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets, which describes the work needed in each industry sector to secure the nation's physical resources against the threat of terrorism.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>When city officials in Austin, Texas, decided to reduce pollution by allowing more city employees to telecommute, they found Expertcity Inc.'s GoToMyPC software enables employees to telecommute without the expense of upgrading the city's virtual private network. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Electronic Data Systems Corp. will roll out another 150,000 seats under the Navy Marine Corps Intranet contract. The latest clearance by the Defense Department pushes the total authorization to 310,000 seats. </FONT>
