Digital Sandbox Inc. won a sole source contract from the Defense Department and the Naval Warfare Systems Command to provide risk management software to governments.
The National Science Foundation has launched the first phase of its TeraGrid project, making 4.5 teraflops of distributed computing power available to scientists across the country.
There is a common misconception that wireless networks are, well, wireless. In fact, wireless networks are very wired. All those access points that transmit radio signals to and from mobile workers are connected to a wired network using -- you guessed it -- wires. And those fixed backhauls, as they're called, can be a significant hindrance to wireless network adoption.
EMC Corp. won a $40 million contract with the Defense Department to provide networked storage, business continuity software and open management software.
IBM Corp.'s eServer product line running Novell Inc.'s Suse Linux Enterprise Server 8 operating system achieved Controlled Access Protection Profile compliance under the Common Criteria for Information Security Evaluation.
Unisys Corp. has won a contract to provide security management, technical support and security certification and accreditation for the Military Health System's Tricare Automated Information System Network Programs.
The London-based unit of Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $49.3 million contract to implement an electronic chart and navigation system that represents the first step toward a "paperless bridge" throughout the Royal Navy.
McNeil Technologies Inc. of Springfield, Va., has acquired Research and Evaluation Associates Inc., a Chapel Hill, N.C.-based company that offers services to state and federal agencies.
AdvanceMed Corp., a subsidiary of Computer Sciences Corp., won a $96 million contract from the Energy Department to provide occupational medicine services at the Hanford cleanup site near Richland, Wash.
MetaCarta Inc., which previously received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency's In-Q-Tel venture capital fund, closed a $6.5 million series B round that will allow it to continue developing search technology used by intelligence and military organizations.
