The Chinese military is developing tools and programs to disrupt electronic systems and deface Web pages during times of attack, according to a Defense Department report.
A Defense Department report said the Chinese military is developing tools and programs to disrupt electronic systems and deface Web pages during times of attack.
Northrop Grumman Corp., Los Angeles, and Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, Md., have both been awarded contracts worth up to $35 million each to develop electro-optical equipment for the Defense of U.S. Aircraft System.
Dynamics Research Corp., Andover, Mass., has been selected to provide advisory support and assistance services to the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System program office, the company announced July 11. The five-year contract is worth $34 million.
When PwC Consulting announced it would change its name to "Monday" following its spinoff from PricewaterhouseCoopers, reaction was, to say the least, pronounced. Even in an industry rife with unconventional company names ? think Accenture, Verizon and even Unisys ? PwC's decision raised eyebrows.
Technology, like pop music, changes rapidly. Both thrive from constant innovation and fickle audiences. In the government marketplace, it is often up to the systems integrator to divine the Next Big Thing, to look beyond staid thinking to new innovation.
When Electronic Data Systems Corp. needed customer relationship management software for a new Department of Agriculture system, the company bypassed established industry names to partner with a relative newcomer to the government CRM space, Art Technology Group Inc.
New techniques for indexing audio files that use the sound of words, or phonemes, rather than entire words, could provide a major breakthrough that will make the information in audio files easier to manipulate and exploit.
The federal government should develop more complex weather radar technologies, according to a report from the National Academy of Sciences. The primary weather radar system used by the government today is the WSR-88D, or Nexrad, comprised of about 150 radars worldwide. It supports the National Weather Service, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Defense Department. "Since the design of the Nexrad system, there have been important developments of new radar technologies and methods of designing and operating radar systems," the report said. It is available at <a href="http://www.nationalacademies.org/topnews/#0606">www.nationalacademies.org/topnews/#0606</a>.
CACI International Inc. won a contract to provide information technology support to the systems center of the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in Norfolk, Va.
Cray Inc. has been selected to develop and build a supercomputer system for Sandia National Laboratories, while Silicon Graphics Inc. is upgrading a supercomputer it supplied to the NASA Ames Research Center.
In 2001, the Federal Computer Incident Response Center was notified of 6,683 attacks, ranging from defacing Web sites to break-ins of an agency's central "root" servers. In 2000, the agency was notified of only 586; in 1999, that number was 580. Industry and government officials are worried whether agencies have enough manpower to keep up with the increasing attacks on their computer systems. "Security must be considered a process rather than a single technology," said Jack Reis of NFR Security.
McDonald Bradley Inc., McLean, Va., has acquired Domain Technologies Inc. The terms of the deal between the two privately-held companies were not disclosed.
The Canadian subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp., Falls Church, Va. has won a $128 million contract the to supply and integrate a new data management system for the Canadian Department of National Defence.
