It's hard to imagine a federal IT mandate that touches every agency where they communicate, execute and operate, and not see dollar signs. But as systems integrators and their partners eye the chance to convert government networks to the newest Internet protocol, they're finding it hard to get a handle on the opportunity.
Four years ago, the Japanese Earth Simulator supercomputer was the most powerful system on the planet, causing Congress to wring its hands over the prospect of U.S. scientists falling behind in the world.
Rep. Tom Davis reiterated his longstanding support for the creation of a federal chief information officer position during a question-and-answer session with public-sector CIOs at a Microsoft summit this week.
House Government Reform Committee chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) threatens to kill funding next year for the controversial Treasury Communications Enterprise departmentwide contract.
Cisco Systems Inc. has entered the burgeoning field of wireless mesh networking providers angling for municipal WiFi projects with its new line of Cisco Aironet 1500 outdoor access points.
Cisco Systems Inc. has launched an IP-based communications platform that the company says will tie together disparate radio systems in order to achieve interoperability for first responders and other government users.
Xerox Corp.'s WorkCentre Pro C2128, C2636 and C3545 devices, and CopyCentre C2128, C2636 and C3545 color copiers have been certified at Evaluation Assurance Level 2 by the National Information Assurance Partnership.
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) insists that the Real ID Act, which outlines standards for issuing new driver's licenses, does not amount to an unfunded mandate, despite what state governments may say.
VeriSign Inc. said it has been approved by the Defense Department to issue digital certificates required for anyone who wants access to protected government Web sites and applications.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is in the market for enterprise tools to sift through the hundreds of terabytes of security-related data it collects.
Twelve products were honored yesterday at the FOSE trade show in Washington. They ranged from a network switch to an electronic voting system to a notebook chip set.
A new baggage-screening system unveiled at the Demo@15 Conference is hailed as "the most important product to take the Demo stage" in the trade show's 15-year history.
It's a question that crops up with increasing frequency: How does industry stay relevant to agencies' enterprise architecture initiatives when EA has largely become an issue of internal management practices?
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.
