Navy fields mobile weather centers for fleets, AF users
A 150-pound mobile weather center helps the Navy support training exercises and real-world contingencies around the globe.
Briefing Book
Expeditionary force. The Air Force Information Technology Conference, which starts today in Montgomery, Ala., focuses this year on expeditionary air forces.
Pilots capture data on the fly
After a 15-month design, development and deployment period, the Navy since February has been using a homegrown program to capture postflight information and readiness information for commanders of the service's 330 squadrons.
Cisco adds products to support network telephony
Organizations that already have Cisco Systems Inc. network infrastructures can integrate voice, video and data services via new voice port adapters and modules, a voice-WAN interface card, a voice and videoconferencing gateway, and a multimedia router. The five new products work with the San Jose, Calif., company's 2600, 3600, 7200 and 7500 router series to deploy packet telephony over existing data networks.
Telezoo.com lets telecom buyers compare products, services
An online marketplace has attracted federal telecommunications buyers who want to make apples-to-apples comparisons of products and services from hundreds of vendors.
Scanner suite increases its risk assessment tool features
Internet Security Systems Inc. of Atlanta has expanded its Scanner suite's ability to recognize system vulnerabilities and added to the platforms on which Scanner products will run.
VA awards contract for health benefits call center
The Veterans Affairs Department has awarded a five-year, $20 million contract to Condor Technology Solutions Inc. of Annapolis, Md., to run a national call center for veterans' health benefit questions.
Spyrus' FIPS Standard Encryption product for Netscape accepts multiple token types
Spyrus Inc., maker of the Fortezza encryption card, has designed a Federal Information Processing Standard-compliant Web security platform that accepts multiple token types.
AF group says bye to FDDI
The Air Force's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate has raised its sights for a campus network at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
INTERNAUT
Most government webmasters are taking heavy-duty precautions these days to close security holes and protect themselves against the hacker graffiti that plague the highest-profile sites.
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING
Western Scientific Inc. designed the AcceleRAIT tape-duplication system to make five simultaneous copies of a backup tape.
Blocking agents can keep hacker utilities at bay
Prominent government Web sites and networks are not the only targets for hackers these days. Almost any computer running Microsoft Windows that has a persistent Internet connection is vulnerable.
Forest Service adopts messaging architecture
The Forest Service has embraced a single, nationwide Internet and intranet Web architecture, using Lotus Notes as its core messaging system and Lotus Domino as its Web server and development tool for easy access to the information stored in its legacy systems.
Beat the Clock
Don't phone home. New Year's Eve, 1999, will be 'the mother of all Mother's Days,'' according to Sprint Corp. spokesman James W. Fisher, 'and Mother's Day is the biggest call day of the year.''
IBM adds jolt of Java, XML searching capability to latest version of its DB2
IBM Corp. has reworked its DB2 Universal Database for Linux and the Web's Extensible Markup Language.
Labor invests in PeoplePower
The first phase of the Labor Department's PeoplePower 2000 project went live in June using applications from PeopleSoft Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif.
POWER USER
Has someone high on the chain of command been wishing for a movie studio to rev up your agency's Web site for videoconferencing or training?
New engine dredges the Web for vendor news
Web search engines dredge up such heavy loads of junk that they have limited value in serious research by government buyers.
Lotus sets dynamic intranet duo flying on their own
Microsoft Corp. is working to pull all of its products into its office software suite, but Lotus Development Corp. is doing the opposite. It recently let loose two standalone products that had gotten their start in SmartSuite.
Light and easy, Panasonic's newest subnotebook has touch-screen support
A mobile computer can be highly portable only at the cost of performance. The larger the screen, the shorter the battery life and so on. For subnotebooks, the big trade-off is usability.
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