<FONT SIZE=2>The White House is asking for significant funding increases in fiscal 2004 for Defense Department transformation efforts, such as satellite communications, space-based radar and cryptology, that are rich in information technology, a senior defense official said at a briefing last week. </FONT>
General Dynamics Corp., Falls Church, Va., has won three contract orders, potentially worth more than $215 million for work on Army combat vehicles, including work on the Land Warrior Program.
Information technology takes up the largest share of all research to be funded by the National Science Foundation in its proposed 2004 budget of $5.5 billion.
The White House is asking for significant funding increases in fiscal 2004 for Defense Department transformation efforts, such as satellite communications, space-based radar and cryptology, that are rich in IT, a senior defense official said at a briefing last week.
Within three years, Oracle Corp. hopes to have almost all government e-mail stored on agency databases and servers running its software, a company executive says.
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards has formed a committee to create a framework for government agencies to share criminal records.
<FONT SIZE=2>With 16,000 inmates spread out among 20 institutions, the Colorado Department of Corrections needed a way to make inmate records available to all its facilities. It also needed a way to more quickly compile statistical reports. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Silicon Graphics Inc. is trying to break open a new government market for high-end computers with a new technology that aggregates memory banks of multiple Linux machines. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Eedo Knowledgeware Corp., Nashua, N.H., is providing $39,500 of Web-enabled training and simulation tools to the contracting team building the Army's RAH-66 Comanche helicopter. The team, comprised of the Chicago-based Boeing Co. and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., Hartford, Conn., will supply the Army Aviation division with 1,000 hours of Web-enabled learning content along with the helicopters, for both maintenance crews and operators of the craft. </FONT>
Two potentially disruptive technologies watched closely by government systems integrators today are open-source software and nanotechnology. Each holds the promise of radically changing the landscape of information technology.</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>The concept of open-source software, for example, challenges many notions about how software should be created and sold. "If you are an entrenched proprietary software vendor, this paradigm shift can be alarming," said <b>John Weathersby</b>, chairman of the Oxford, Miss.-based Open Source Software Institute.</FONT>
DigitalGlobe Inc., Longmont, Colo., and Space Imaging Inc., Thornton, Colo., have each won spots on a $500 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to provide space imagery, the Department of Defense announced Jan. 16.
Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, Md., unveiled Jan. 14 the team it has put together to pursue a $500 million contract to build the battle management subsystem for the Air Force's Multi-Sensor Command and Control Aircraft program.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has won a $57 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to continue operating the Survivability and Vulnerability Information Analysis Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
<FONT SIZE=2>	The latest version of the popular multimedia editor offered by Macromedia Inc., San Francisco, includes accessibility features that will help agencies meet Section 508 compliance, according to Bob Regan, senior product manager for accessibility for the company. Macromedia Director MX features an editing procedure that requires editors to enclose written descriptions of the visual material being posted. Accessibility settings can also be set across entire Web sites. </FONT>
Silicon Graphics Inc. is trying to break open a new government market for high-end computers with a new technology that aggregates memory banks of multiple Linux machines.
