Judges' Award: This portable is in a league of its own
Sometimes companies advance a product category by adding something new and exciting. Then there are companies like Psion TekLogix Inc. that create entire new categories.
Security Products'Hardware: Kanguru's little device gives you sleight of hand security
Protecting confidential data is one of the hardest things to accomplish outside a secure area, particularly if you're always bringing data back from the road. It's one thing to keep your documents organized; it's quite another to keep them safe.
Richmond logistics center upgrades networks
The Defense Supply Center in Richmond, Va., will upgrade its local and wide area networks to streamline logistics support and procurement for its Defense Department customers.<br>
Storage products: Exabyte leaps forward with autoloader backup
Given the choice, most systems administrators would have an autoloader system for network backup. But many remote offices can't afford such a robust system, so they're stuck with a single-drive backup tape that needs to be changed daily to keep important files safe.
Desktop Clients: Profile 5's small size fits all
Space'specifically, smaller space'is one of the next frontiers in computing, and the Gateway Profile 5 pioneers this territory with power and performance that won't crowd your desk.
DOD gets ready for financial compliance
Army leaders, looking to commercial enterprise resource planning software to get a better handle on Defense Department finance, will issue a request for quotations next month to get industry input.
Robot rally puts the pitfalls of autonomous vehicles on display
MOJAVE DESERT, Calif.'The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency saw firsthand this month how difficult it is to make vehicles self-navigating. None of the 13 entries that qualified for the agency's first autonomous-vehicle race got much past the starting line.
DARPA enters uncharted network territory
ANAHEIM, Calif.'If pilot efforts at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency pan out, the battlefields of tomorrow will swarm with self-propelled attack vehicles reliant on advanced software and networking gear.
OMB clarifies federal lines of business
Federal enterprise architecture officials this week will launch five line-of-business initiatives that reflect common agency processes.The fiscal 2004 and 2005 budget work clarified the common processes, said Robert Haycock, chief architect at the Office of Management and Budget. He spoke last week at the Open Source in Government conference in Washington.
Judge again orders Interior to take systems offline
Efforts over the past 28 months by Interior Department systems professionals to fortify the department's IT security have failed to satisfy a federal judge, who ordered Interior to disconnect nine agencies from the Internet.
Hill to DHS: Fix border databases
A senior lawmaker this month demanded that the Homeland Security Department speed integration of criminal and immigration databases so Border Patrol agents can nab felons trying to sneak into the country.
GSA awards second SmartBuy deal
The General Services Administration last week signed a deal that it said could save the government $25 million on supply chain management software.
Stenbit explains DOD IT spending to lawmakers
It's not always easy for Congress to oversee Defense Department systems buys because lawmakers sometimes are unsure which programs are part of the $28.7 billion military IT budget and which fall under other funding umbrellas.
1,500 jobs up for grabs at Energy, NASA
The Energy Department and NASA are honing plans to conduct competitions under OMB Circular A-76 that will pit vendor teams against groups of federal employees for major IT tasks. About 1,500 federal jobs are at stake.
DHS taps Anteon for support work
The Homeland Security Department has awarded integrator Anteon International Corp. a contract to provide IT services to the Coast Guard.<br>
E-filing bolsters IRS enforcement
Electronic filing has made dealing with the IRS easier for millions of taxpayers. The next step is to improve the effectiveness of the agency's investigators and auditors.
GSA prepares for follow-on to FedBizOpps
The General Services Administration this month plans to release a draft request for proposals to upgrade and enhance FedBizOpps, the government's procurement portal.
D.C. to create public-safety command post
The District of Columbia this month broke ground on a Unified Communications Center on the campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital in southeast Washington.
IBM will help with DOD RFID rollout
The Defense Department has awarded a three-year contract to IBM Business Consulting Services to help manage its Radio Frequency ID program.<br>
NIH unifies its grants software under J2EE
The National Institutes of Health will upgrade its research grants application and processing system to an object-oriented architecture using Java2 Enterprise Edition.
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