Officials of Aurora, Colo., have improved the productivity of the city's non-emergency vehicles by equipping them with an automated vehicle tracking system.
The Army Intelligence and Security Command has bought server management software from Altiris Inc. to integrate an inventory of computers running Unix into one documenting the computers running Windows.
As recent headlines have shown, building a foolproof electronic voting system is difficult. A successful system must protect the voter's privacy while ensuring strict accountability of each vote cast.
The Defense Department's efforts to improve logistics by increasing asset visibility paid off in Iraq. Although the supply lines were attenuated, they did not fail the troops at the front line, said Joseph Kampf, president and chief executive officer of Anteon International Corp., Fairfax, Va.
As the military's weapons and information systems become increasingly complex, integrators that build these systems have discovered they need project management tools equally complex and advanced.
For Northrop Grumman Corp., Los Angeles, Operation Iraqi Freedom provided an opportunity to deploy its Theatre Medical Information Program, a framework for moving patient data around different echelons of the Army.
From the moment fighting began in Iraq, U.S. military leaders were coolly assessing the performance of their own technology, tactics, weapons and forces. The Pentagon, in fact, had embedded an elite team of 35 joint staff officers with U.S. troops to observe operations and compile lessons learned for future wars.
The software certification role of National Information Assurance Partnership might expand from defense and national security agencies to all federal agencies, a White House official tells Congress.
McDonald Bradley Inc., Herndon, Va., has won a five-year, $11.2 million contract to help the Drug Enforcement Administration connect multiple mission-critical systems.
