NASA discovers an SOA for Earth data
Ageny's early foray into Web services technology nets a fully functional service-oriented architecture
Air Force picks Lockheed for space-based communications project
The Air Force has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. for its multibillion-dollar Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Mission Operations System contract.
Effort to create architecture lexicon on hold, Burk says
Richard Burk, the Office of Management and Budget's chief architect, said last week that the effort to harmonize terms and build consensus among agencies is on hiatus until the group can decide on the context of the terms.
Microsoft aims at Lotus
Microsoft Corp. last month took the wraps off a slew of new and upgraded tools it hopes will help Lotus Notes users migrate to its own collaboration platform.
Seagate drives expand
Get ready for bigger notebook hard drives.
EMC embraces Google
EMC Corp. recently said it will integrate Google Desktop for Enterprise into its content management platform.
Dispatches from Redmond
At a conference for public-sector CIOs in Redmond, Wash., last month, Kristin Johnsen, Microsoft's senior director for security outreach, briefed editors on a slew of promising technologies for protecting systems and networks. Here's a sampling, in no particular order.
Disk encryption and HSPD-12
This is probably just one GCN editor's interpretation, but Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO of WinMagic Data Security in Mississauga, Ontario, sounds a bit like the Rodney Dangerfield of security technology.
Buy a firewall, get the router free
'We want more presence in the branch router market,' said Juniper Networks Inc. senior director of enterprise products Chris Spain during a recent visit to Washington. Hence the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's new Juniper Secure Services Gateway 500 family of security appliances, which debuts this week.
INTERNAUT: The 'value driver' and the IT project
The term <i>value driver</i> gets tossed around quite a bit these days when government IT managers discuss new project proposals.
Now what?
Four years into the enterprise architecture initiative, agencies have blueprints in place. It's time to put those EAs to work.
EXECUTIVE SUITE: Preparing for the IT world of the year 2026
Despite advances such as e-government services to citizens, the federal IT world has done little to prepare itself as a strong player on the global IT stage.
White House reinforces DHS leadership
President George W. Bush has nominated two officials to lead Homeland Security Department agencies, a move that helps fill some of the vacancies left by a wholesale exodus of the department's senior leadership last year.
EDITOR'S DESK: When to fold 'em
You've got to credit the beleaguered Homeland Security Department for yanking the contract on its Emerge2 financial systems program.
Gutierrez named Massachusetts CIO
Louis Gutierrez, a former chief technology strategist at UMass Medical School, will be responsible for managing the final stages of implementation of the state's OpenDocument format initiative.
Charles McClam | The changing ways of SBA
Acting CIO Charles McClam details steps SBA is taking to improve its IT security and the wholesale changes that are coming to its Loan Accounting System.
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On the high-tech seas
Light, fast and laden with IT, the experimental Stiletto would support special operations forces
Intelligence agencies eye the watch list dilemma
Officials want to add biometrics and better search capabilities, but doubts persist about feasibility'and even possibility
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