Army in mobile satellite terminal deal with DataPath
The Army Communications-Electronics Command has awarded a $96 million contract to DataPath Inc. to deliver 157 trailer-based satellite terminals in support of the Army's Joint Network Node initiative.
DOD sidesteps outdated rules to speed technology to warfighters
Military officials are placing more orders using the Rapid Equipping Force vehicle, where commercially available technologies are purchased or speedily developed.
Weapons agency finds answers with topic maps
Energy Department officials have discovered that topic maps can be useful in managing the country's nuclear weapons stockpile. Topic maps create connections among related information that ordinary search tools might not know to make.
Ask the Professor: Reconfigurable Computing
The computer science academic community has investigated the use of field-programmable gate arrays for quite some time.
Reconfigurable chips could accelerate HPC
At first glance, the new Cray XD1 that showed up on the loading dock of the Naval Research Laboratory last summer looked like a regular supercomputer.
Sarnoff Corp.'s TerraSight surveillance suite: The bird's-eye view
t's been a good couple of months for 'holy cow' new technologies.
Altiris Inc.' Software Virtualization Solution: Software you don't have to load
A trend is emerging at the GCN offices. It seems little time passes before a company from Utah'not Silicon Valley'comes by with some cool new technology. Most recently the company was Lindon, Utah-based Altiris Inc.
Lawmaker calls for review of SBA's Katrina response
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) asked GAO to gauge SBA's response, with a particular focus on the agency's centralized disaster management center.
DHS spending bill, now law, bolsters technology
The fiscal 2006 Homeland Security Department appropriations bill continues or increases funding for dozens of technology-related programs.
OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs chief Graham steps down
John Graham, administrator of the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, will leave the agency in February 2006.
Editorial cartoon
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EDITOR'S DESK: When to pull the plug
People hate to write off major expenditures that bought little in return.
Quentin L. Peach | SPS extends its reach via the Web
Col. Quentin L. Peach recently became the first Army Reservist ever to head up the Standard Procurement System, an automated contracting system that standardizes procurement processes across the Defense Department.
Incoming
The Defense Department has awarded SafeNet Inc. a $150 million contract for the company's new top-secret-grade encryptor technology.
Fly-by-night training
Flying a fighter jet over Afghanistan at night is dangerous enough. Add the disorientation that night vision goggles can induce, and a simple pilot error can turn lethal.
Defense releases draft of 5015 Version 3
The Defense Department has posted a working draft of Version 3 of its standard for records management software, the 5015.2-STD RMA Design Criteria Standard.
Buyer bill would give Veterans Affairs CIO IT budget authority
The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee has introduced legislation that would give the Veterans Affairs Department's CIO authority over the department's IT budget, personnel and assets in an effort to improve VA's IT management.
Senate seeks vendors for telecom modernization
The Senate is seeking qualified bidders as it begins a project to overhaul its existing telecommunications system.
IRS' Lutes to retire
IRS associate CIO for IT services Terry Lutes will retire at the end of the year after nearly 30 years of service.
VA taps Luigart as deputy CIO for health
Craig Luigart had been serving as VA associate deputy assistant secretary for policies, plans and programs.
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