It will take at least five years for government agencies to achieve even middling grades for compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act, a former White House official says.
NASA has awarded three $20 million contracts for new sensor technology that will help forecasters better predict where and when severe weather will strike.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded a $7.3 million order to EarthData International LLC for imagery and data models describing the Earth's surface.
At the height of the Internet boom, a company knew its Web site had made the big time when it needed the help of a separate network of servers to meet the demand of site visitors. The added servers proved to be a cost-effective way of locating content closer to users and taking the burden off back-end systems that ran a site.
The telecommunications industry is once again in a state of flux. Still acclimating to the flood of competition unleashed by the 1996 Telecommunications Act and licking its wounds from a scandal-tainted 2000 market crash, the industry now must grapple with how best to deliver a wide variety of services over a changing network infrastructure.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded a $7.3 million order to EarthData International LLC for imagery and data models describing the Earth's surface, the Defense Department said today.
Anteon International Corp. was one of three companies receiving contracts from the Navy Fleet Technical Support Center to provide engineering services.
AT&T Government Solutions Inc. won a performance-based contract for engineering and technical support services to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center.
At a top-secret industry conference this week, a federal agency with no budget to speak of will tell integrators and technology vendors how they can win business helping defense and intelligence agencies.
	Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif., will try its hand at utility computing: selling applications, processing power and services on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. won a multiyear contract from the Naval Air Systems Command for systems and solutions in advanced software, voice, video, data and satellite communications technologies.
The Defense Department has made extremely limited progress in modernizing its business systems and implementing an enterprise architecture, GAO reported.
