State and local IT spending to surge
State and local IT spending likely will grow from about $50 billion in 2006 to $72 billion by fiscal 2011, according to a forecast released today by the Reston, Va.-based firm.
Energy lab to run petascale computer
The Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will start to take delivery on a computer at least as three times more powerful than any now in operation.
Bruce Brody | Waiting for 'Son of FISMA'
More than two weeks before the House Government Reform Committee released its latest round of FISMA grades, Bruce Brody predicted there would be little improvement.
Agencies find there's no single path to IPv6
The FAA plans to set up three test beds to see how well data packets travel through its administrative network using IP Version 6. The Education Department, meanwhile, is linking its move to IPv6 to more than 200 IT business cases and using them to explain the impact of the new technology on each investment.
Firetide: another mesh option
Add another company to the list of folks you want to hear from when issuing a municipal WLAN RFP.
Tumbleweed and PKI
The Federal Public-key Infrastructure Policy Authority's Path Discovery and Validation working group recently qualified the Tumbleweed Validation Authority and Desktop Validator products for agencies that need real-time digital certificate validation in a Federal Bridge-enabled environment.
Motorola Mobile VPN
Motorola Inc. of Schaumburg, Ill., has introduced Multi-Net Mobility, which is designed to provide mobile virtual private networking security across wireless networks.
Trusted handhelds can be easy to manage
Handheld devices, such as the BlackBerry and the Palm Treo, can be management headaches. No wonder there's so much software Advil on the market.
When you can't trust the end point
Senforce Technologies Inc. of Draper, Utah, develops end-point security software focused on laptop and tablet PCs running Windows 2000 and XP.
Streaming desktops: Don't call them thin
Dell knows how to find technology partners that add value to its systems. Among the most recent is Ardence Inc. of Waltham, Mass. Ardence makes server-based, application streaming software that provides the basis for Dell's SmartClient virtual desktop products.
How exactly will you get your IPv6 addresses?
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is devising a plan to make sure agencies get their share of the billions and billions of addresses that will become available under IP Version 6.
DOD turns to industry for the Internet it wants
The Defense Department recognizes Version 6 of the Internet Protocols as central to its concept of network-centric warfare. But enabling a worldwide network to pass IPv6 packets is not enough to realize its goal. It requires applications and tools.
Don't look for rapid ROI from IPv6
Transitioning networks to the next version of the Internet Protocols could be a bargain, according to a recent study by RTI Inter-national of Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Lost in Transition
Agencies are entering largely uncharted territory as they make plans for transitioning network backbones to the next version of the Internet Protocols. But they are making progress.
Neal Fox | Contracting in perspective: Door opens for non-GSA deals
Contracting via government- or agency-wide buying vehicles is running a bit wild. As more agencies plan their own vehicles, GSA's historic near monopoly is threatened.
Incoming
The Army plans in the coming weeks to award a number of big IT contracts for satellite services, hardware and software, and modernization of its infrastructure, senior officials have said.
New name for DOD's Joint Command and Control program
The Defense Department's Joint Command and Control program has been renamed the Net-Enabled Command Capability and has moved from Milestone A to the technology development phase.
Apriva licenses FIPS-certified module for Feds
Arrangement with Certicom allows company to speed delivery of its secure wireless messaging products to government customers.
CIO critical to Medicare modernization to retire
Dean Mesterharm, CIO of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will retire at the end of April after having set the agency on a course to IT modernization.
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