The Defense Department plans to study how airborne contaminants move around and inside the Pentagon to develop better systems for protecting against attacks.
IBM Corp. is putting a government spin on its enterprise software products. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company today announced a series of solutions that it said could help agencies reduce costs and improve service to constituents.
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $7.8 million research and development contract from the Army to develop software for aircraft, specifically helicopters and other rotorcraft.
A government initiative to improve communications among first responders at the federal, state and local levels "has made very limited progress," according to a report released today.
Marc Andreessen, Internet pioneer and chairman of Opsware Inc., can fit 90 minutes of insights into a 45-minute interview. He talks about as fast as technology changes.
High-speed fiber-optic lines pass within one mile of an estimated 75 percent of the nation's commercial and government buildings. However, less than 10 percent of those buildings have fiber connections and, depending on whose research you look at, that figure could be as low as 3 percent.
Marc Andreessen, Internet pioneer and chairman of Opsware Inc., can fit 90 minutes of insights into a 45-minute interview. He talks about as fast as technology changes.
When singer Janet Jackson's costume "malfunctioned" during the Super Bowl halftime show in February, exposing her breast to millions of viewers, the Federal Communications Commission was flooded with angry phone calls.
The Army awarded a research and development contract to Rockville, Md.-based InHand Electronics Inc. to create an electronic personal information carrier that would store a soldier's complete medical records in a device the size of a dog tag.
The stunning agreement between long-time rivals Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. has sparked optimism among integrators and resellers, who say the partnership could translate into new opportunities in the government market.
The Securities and Exchange Commission will deploy a storage management solution from EMC Corp. to handle the thousands of mailboxes in its Microsoft Exchange environment.
BAE Systems North America has agreed to acquire STI Government Systems, a division of Honolulu-based STI Industries Inc., for $27 million in cash, the company said. The deal is expected to close in 45 days.
All technology companies are now "permanently in the security business," Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.'s chief executive office, told a gathering today in Washington, adding that security is the one area of technology innovation where companies need to cooperate instead of compete.
IBM Corp. has introduced a series of prepackaged, high-performance computing clusters aimed at organizations with limited staffs and budgets, but seemingly unlimited need for computing resources.
