First phase called for developing the software architecture that would integrate several legacy analytical applications and allow better collaboration across war-planning network.
It's an unusual situation for a game developer, but Doug Whatley isn't complaining. The chief executive officer of BreakAway Games Ltd. In Hunt Valley, Md., said only a quarter of his company's business comes from its entertainment titles, such as "Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle," and "Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom." The rest comes from Uncle Sam.
BEA Systems North America Inc. and Northrop Grumman Corp. have received contracts to develop and test prototype systems for protecting commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.
Xacta Corp. will supply security compliance and risk management software to the National Archives and Records Administration, the company said today. Terms of the three-year, agency-wide agreement were not immediately available.
Cisco Systems Inc. plans to acquire privately held P-Cube Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., for $200 million in cash and options. P-Cube develops software for analyzing and managing network traffic.
Honeywell International Inc. completes testing of an unmanned air vehicle that the Defense Department hopes to use for gathering surveillance and protecting troops.
General Dynamics Corp. won a contract to develop 10 prototype tablet computers powered by liquid fuel cells to replace the Air Force's ground air traffic control computers.
The federal market for enterprise resource planning solutions will grow to $7.7 billion in fiscal 2009, according to a research report from Input Inc. due out next week.
Lockheed Martin Corp. is the first federal systems integrator to join a new program for developing geospatial intelligence solutions based on technology from Redlands, Calif.-based ESRI Inc.
The Government Accountability Office today released a report acknowledging the progress the Homeland Security Department has made in developing an enterprise architecture but criticizing the blue print for lacking sufficient detail.
Microsoft Corp. yesterday delayed yet again its oft-delayed Windows XP Service Pack 2, this time postponing the patch's distribution through the company's Automatic Update service.
The Defense Department is deploying a pair of 256-processor Linux clusters from Bluffdale, Utah-based Linux Networx Inc. to simulate combat operations on a virtual battlefield, the company said today.
McAfee Inc. has agreed to buy Foundstone Inc. of Mission Viejo, Calif., for $86 million in cash, the company said today. The acquisition gives the security firm a foothold in the growing vulnerability management market.
Raytheon Co., a subcontractor on the Defense Department's Future Combat Systems program, has made five awards for the design and development of ground sensor technology. Lockheed Martin Corp. won two, and Raytheon's Network Centric Systems division won three.
If the Defense Department remains intent on spiraling network-centric capabilities to the warfighter, then it has a major challenge on its hands, according to some experts.
As agencies put into place the first blueprints of their IT environments, systems integrators and other contractors face the question of what happens next. Agencies will need help creating more detailed versions of their architectures. SAIC, for example, is already helping DHS with a second version of its plan. But the importance of this work goes well beyond the creation of an enterprise architecture. Contractors now must focus on winning the follow-up -- and possibly more lucrative -- work of implementing enterprise architectures.
Anyone get that plate number? Active Recognition Technologies Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has developed software for identifying and comparing license-plate numbers against watch lists.
