The newly formed information solutions division of Raytheon Co. will focus on four areas within the government IT arena, said Tom Anderson, vice president and chief operating officer of the new Reston, Va.-based division.
Managing the development of a large, complex system can itself be a complex task. Chains of responsibility need to be charted and followed. Every time a change is made, appropriate personnel, in a specific order, need to approve it -- some of who may be located thousands of miles apart. Program managers need to know the status of all the tasks under way to understand how the project, as a whole, is progressing.
A team led by Boeing Co., Chicago, and Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, has won a $14.9 billion contract to develop and demonstrate prototypes of assault vehicles, sensors and related networking equipment for the Army's Future Combat Systems program.
The Air Force is retiring the phrase "electronic form." Two years ago, when the Air Force Departmental Publishing Office was tasked with converting the service's 17,000 forms into electronic format, service officials decided the term "e-form" didn't describe what happens when documents are put online.
A team led by Boeing and SAIC has won a $14.9 billion contract to develop and show prototypes of assault vehicles, sensors and related networking equipment for the Army's Future Combat Systems program.
The sales, won by the company's EF Johnson division, represent a growing market for radios that are Internet-ready and meet emerging interoperability standards, said Jim Ridgell, vice president of EF Johnson's federal business unit.
The release of Microsoft Corp's new server operating system is being pitched to integrators as a way to save money on fixed-price contracts, the company claims.
Two new efforts to certify the security capabilities of open-source products show an increasing interest among federal agencies to use the software for mission-critical work.
Mark Seager, a contracting officer at the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will change the wording in the next solicitation he issues for servers. In previous purchases, Seager specified the particular make of processors to be used in the servers, often naming market leader Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. But an eager challenger, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., has produced a microprocessor that could serve just as well, if not better, for the needed servers.
As the use of open-source software, such as Linux, increases in the public sector, commercial and government agencies are taking steps to obtain credentials necessary for open source use in high-security environments.<br>
Responding to agency requests, the General Accounting Office has updated its guide on enterprise architectures with expanded metrics to measure how well an agency succeeds in implementation.
