In December, Microsoft Corp. announced it would no longer support several of its older products, including Windows 98. That means no more security patches, which, as everyone in the business knows, are some of the most important pieces of software that Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft develops.
Start-up router company Procket Networks Inc. has hired the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems Inc.'s service provider group to be its president and chief executive officer.
The first reported incident of mad cow disease in the United States is likely to accelerate adoption of a system to better track cattle and other livestock through the food supply chain.
The Defense Department's fiscal 2004 IT budget is riddled with "material inconsistencies, inaccuracies or omissions that limit its reliability," said the General Accounting Office in a report to a House subcommittee. GAO found a $1.6 billion discrepancy between two key budget reports spanning 73 information technology initiatives.
General Dynamics Corp. has won a contract to test and evaluate satellite-based technology that the FAA hopes will improve its Alaska Capstone Communications Control System.
Computer Sciences Corp. won a task order from the Naval Sea Systems Command to provide professional services to the Future Concepts and Surface Ship Design Group.
General Dynamics Land Systems, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp., won a $2 billion contract from Boeing Co. to develop manned ground vehicles for the Army's Future Combat Systems program.
Market valuations for publicly traded government IT companies rose an average of 17 percent over the last six months, according to Input Inc., a Reston, Va.-based IT market research firm.
Arinc Inc. has won a contract to expand an Air Force threat recognition training system, the company said. The value of the contract was not immediately known.
Computer Sciences Corp. won a task order from the Naval Sea Systems Command to provide professional services to the Program Executive Office Aircraft Carriers.
The General Accounting Office has released a study that finds theDefense Department "does not know exactly how much it is spending oncommercial satellite bandwidth services."
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expanding its use of Siebel eHealthcare software in its effort to unify and modernize 76 call centers nationwide.
Lockheed Martin Corp. has awarded a pair of contracts to Silicon Graphics Inc. to build and install a prototype night-vision goggles simulation system for Lockheed Martin's F-16 pilot training systems.
