Air Force awards test-lab deal
Multimax Inc. will furnish all materials, equipment, space, network and Internet service provider interfaces, networking and system administrative skills needed to maintain the service's Independent Verification and Validation Laboratory.
IAC's Landin killed
Patrick Landin, manager of the shared interest groups of the American Council for Technology/Industry Advisory Group, found dead in his car.
Calif. city taps ACS for IT outsourcing services
The city of Riverside, Calif., has awarded a $5.5 million contract to Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for the continued handling of business process and IT outsourcing services.
Honolulu ERP deal goes to CGI-AMS
CGI-AMS will supply an enterprise resource-planning software suite to the city and county of Honolulu through a 2 1/2 year contract worth $10 million.
DISA awards contract for SOA governance products
The Defense Information Systems Agency has selected Merlin Technical Solutions Inc. to provide service-oriented architecture governance products for the agency's Net-Enabled Command Capability and Net-Centric Enterprise Services initiatives.
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Tech brief | Motorola's dual-mode WiFi card
Motorola Inc. came out with what it says is the first "dual-band Wi-Fi card for municipalwide and ad hoc wireless connectivity."
Tech brief | AtTask's plug-and-play system
AtTask Inc. has rolled out AtTask Version 4, a 'pluggable' project management system that is platform, database and browser independent.
Tech brief | Check Point secures remote users
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is shipping Check Point Integrity Clientless Security 4.0, which is designed to protect unmanaged PCs over remote access connections.
Tech brief | CA updates security gateway
CA (you might still know them as Computer Associates) just launched eTrust Secure Content Manager r8, a unified security gateway that protects networks against malware via e-mail and Web traffic.
GCN Insider | Intel vs. AMD heats up
When a longtime, devoted customer like Dell Inc. quietly tells the world it plans to use some of your competition's server processors (which is what the Intel stalwart said of AMD Opteron CPUs last month), then a little good news couldn't hurt.
GCN Insider | Microsoft goes virtually ga-ga
There was a time that a company would come out with a good product, take it around to editors, then get snapped up by Microsoft Corp. It's about to happen again.
GCN Insider | Cover your Windows in a storm
As hurricane season revs up again, be prepared for an onslaught of business continuity solution pitches.
Traditional values
Blade servers may be cutting into the market for traditional servers, but there are still many applications where rack or tower servers are an appropriate and sensible choice. While traditional servers and blade servers perform the same tasks, the main differences are in expandability and processing density.
GSA drafts second round of Alliant requests
The General Services Administration has issued the second set of draft requests for proposals for its 10-year, $65 billion Alliant procurement program, which will offer federal agencies a wide range of IT services.
Deadline looms on border
Although the Homeland Security and State departments have made progress in implementing the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, the program's broad nature and complexity could prevent the agencies from meeting congressional deadlines, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Code breaking new ground
Today, the need to protect data'and the existence of forces trying to steal it'is perhaps greater than ever before. To keep pace with those who would try and break modern codes, the Defense Department and the National Security Agency's Information Assurance Directorate have an ongoing effort called the Cryptographic Modernization Initiative, an effort is to transform and modernize information assurance capabilities.
Registered Traveler program revs for takeoff
The Homeland Security Department's Transportation Security Administration is filling the IT gaps in its Registered Traveler program, which it plans to roll out at up to 20 airports by year's end. The program is intended to let travelers who have agreed to background checks move through airport screening points more quickly.
Logging On | Is Schedule 70 the Wal-Mart of IT commodity buys?
My wife and I don't shop at Wal-Mart, we buy. We buy toilet paper, laundry detergent, beef jerky 'commodities for which the only criterion is low price. We're in and out in minutes. Some say that's similar to how government IT buyers have started treating Schedule 70 of the Federal Supply Schedule.
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