A newly introduced line of network switches from Riverstone Networks Inc., Santa Clara Calif., could be used by integrators to compete against telecommunications service providers for agency contracts, the company says.
Vendors can use an agency's enterprise architecture as a guide to selling their products by showing how the products and services fit into an agency's mission, a market researcher advises.
The Defense Department plans to spend up to $4 billion on unmanned aerial vehicles over the next seven years, according to a just-released Pentagon blueprint detailing the future of military UAVs.
While the concept of an enterprise architecture may remain an abstract notion to many agency executives, one integrator is hoping to show managers at the Census Bureau how useful an enterprise architecture can be, mainly by deploying flexible modeling software from Computas NA Inc., Sammamish, Wash.
Earlier this month, Atlanta-based Vista-Scape Security Systems Corp. beat a large systems integrator for a contract to set up a 50-camera perimeter surveillance system for a Navy harbor in San Diego. Its key to victory? Information technology, said Glenn McGonnigle, the company's chief executive officer.
Although President Bush submitted a wartime supplemental budget request to Congress that included $3.5 billion for rebuilding Iraq, the cost of rebuilding the country may run significantly higher than that, a congressional aide says.
Rep. Darrell Issa has introduced legislation that would mandate that the Army use American-based cell phone technology when building out a cellular phone infrastructure for Iraq.
Although the Army's Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems has existed for only a year, the systems it supports are seeing duty in the conflict in Iraq.
Science Applications International Corp. won a five-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract worth about $50 million to support networking at the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
<FONT SIZE=2>The Naval Sea Systems Command has tapped into e-procurement software from Commerce One Inc. to cut its acquisition cycle and move to a Web-based system that allows better tracking of what it buys.</FONT>
Hewlett-Packard Co. has filed a lawsuit against government reseller Intelligent Decisions Inc., claiming the Virginia company sold government-discounted hardware to nongovernment buyers.
A possible solution to computer security vulnerabilities may be to widen the scope of parties that could be held liable for the damage they do, according to a report from the National Academy of Sciences.
