VA gets visibility with cybersecurity tool
A VA IT official said a new tool that provides an overview of all computers and IT devices on the department's central network should be operating soon.
Harry Potter and the evolution of GIS
Developments in geospatial technologies include the geotagging of photos and, soon, SMS text messages. Geotags offer a lot of potential benefits, but there's also a potential dark side to anyone having a Marauder's Map.
GIS' future is with crowds, clouds ... and 4-D
Geospatial technologies are exploding -- into crowdsourced applications, cloud platforms, and 3-D and 4-D environments.
How Air Force's BATMAN can steal power from an enemy
An Air Force program is developing new technology, with an emphasis on reducing weight, to give forward units their own super capabilities in the field.
Culture, management issues continue to affect consolidation efforts
The success of data center consolidation initiatives will be determined more by culture and management issues than technology, according to federal managers and industry experts speaking at a recent conference on data center optimization.
Security and data ownership: Old issues in a new wineskin
Security and data center ownership were big issues 15 years ago when the federal government attempted to move agencies to consolidate data centers and share information technology services. Guess what? They still are today.
NASA pursues horizontal launch systems
Space agency plans to develop rails or sleds that can launch space vehicles horizontally.
Progress is slow on harmonizing government cybersecurity policies
A task force created to bring security policies and practices for national security and non-national security systems into line with each other as produced an initial set of common standards, but much work remains before the full benefit of the process is realized, according to the GAO.
Google fires engineer for stalking
Google fires engineer for violating teens’ privacy rights.
Can technology erode a mountain of classified documents?
DARPA solicits bids for new technologies to help declassify the mountains of U.S. government classified data.
New DOD acquisition strategy sparks debate
DOD's leaders want to revamp the Pentagon's acquisition processes, but analyst say much of the guidance isn't new but actually familiar regulations that have failed to be properly implemented in the past.
Army center gains ground on joint network operations
The Army's Network Operations Interoperability Lab provides a setting for testing and evaluating new concepts designed to improve joint networking among the military services.
Army center gains ground on joint network operations
The Army's Network Operations Interoperability Lab provides a setting for testing and evaluating new concepts designed to improve joint networking among the military services.
Report: Tech jobs grew in first half of 2010
TechAmerica, a nonprofit advocacy group, released an employment report today showing an increase in tech-related job hiring for the first half of 2010.
September security patch addresses Windows and Office flaws
IT pros can now get their hands on nine fixes for Windows systems, addressing 11 vulnerabilities.
EMET wards off Adobe exploits, Microsoft says
Microsoft is heralding its newly released Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0 as a fail-safe against hacker incursion methods.
DARPA wants to blow up military design process, start over
The government's blue-sky R&D agency launches a new effort to reinvent the design and manufacture of defense equipment using computer aid and crowdsourcing.
FileMaker Go brings databases to iPad, iPhone
Although you need to have Filemaker Pro on a separate system, the FileMaker Go iPad application takes advantage of that device's ease of use.
Footprint? This desktop PC has a toeprint
The Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 might be among the tiniest desktops, but it holds up pretty well in our tests.
With SoloPro, backup data is safe at home
The ioSafe secure drive comes in a solid casing that can protect against fires and floods for on-site backup, and it can transfer data at USB 3.0 speeds, although most administrators will need to use a adapter port for that.
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