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<b>Your very own blimp</b>. The Aerosphere 76 low-altitude spherical airship 'monitors every ground movement 24/7 in a target area,' boasts Proxity Digital Networks Inc. of West Palm Beach, Fla. The Aerosphere 76, designed to hover around 16,000 feet, can carry payloads for geosynchronous, long-endurance, unmanned operations or serve as an airborne command and control center, according to Proxity. The Soldier Battle Lab at Fort Benning, Ga., saw a demo of a $5 million military version last month. Unlike the Hindenburg airship, whose hydrogen fuel detonated disastrously in 1937, the Aerosphere uses thin-film solar cells, turbo diesel engines and backup generators to stay airborne.
TechNet gets down to brass tacks
Defense Department officials and industry executives expounded on IT's roles in defense'from data mining to wireless technology'during the TechNet International 2004 conference this month in Washington. The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association sponsored the three-day conference.
People on the Move
<b>Linda L. Jacksta</b>, director of systems engineering in Customs and Border Protection's Office of Information and Technology, won the Government Leadership Award given this month by Women in Technology.
NASA's O'Keefe: We saw the trouble coming
Agency's administrator says they knew the transition of data from dozens of older financial systems would cause problems.
Lack of desktop configuration standards hurting cybersecurity
Federal agencies are falling short on meeting the most critical provision of the Federal Information Security Management Act, a security expert and Hill staff member said.
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Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System data feeds
Truck safety agency simplifies data backup
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has put in place software from Legato to consolidate and protect data from 90 remote offices and its headquarters at one location.
Online app gauges Colorado rainfall
What began as a program in one Colorado man's basement'with data from volunteer ranchers checking rain gauges in their yards and mailing postcards of measurements'has grown into an online application.
Weather agency goes first-CLASS
One of the world's largest stores of environmental data is now online at a dual-sited federal portal called CLASS.The Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System in March began serving up more than 41T'that's terabytes'worth of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration environmental data collected from satellite and ground observations. CLASS operates out of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., and the Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution in Suitland, Md.
State Dept. wants to leverage PKI
The State Department, one of the four entities cross-certified this year by the Federal Bridge Certification Authority, has big plans for its public-key infrastructure.
NASA's ERP project goes awry, GAO tells panel
NASA has bungled its $982.7 million enterprise resource planning system project in a way that caused the agency to lose track of $2 billion in its Treasury Department account and forced it to adjust its books, witnesses told a House committee last week.
Lawmakers recommend $422.2b for DOD in 2005
Lawmakers debating next year's Defense Department authorization bills have called 2005 the 'year of the troops,' promising to prioritize funds for combat and force protection capabilities.
Beefed-up DISN will accelerate to 10 Gbps
Defense Department network honchos want to add muscle to their chief data transport to meet future military demands.The Defense Information Systems Agency this month released a request for information for considerably more bandwidth on the Defense Information System Network.
Obsolete algorithm tangles terrorist/criminal watch lists
Advanced name-matching software now used for some agencies' terrorist and criminal watch lists can handle linguistic differences and Arabic, Chinese, Russian and other non-Roman alphabets.
SBA lends a hand with online loan app
The Small Business Administration gets more than 67,000 faxes a year from lenders seeking small-business loans that add up to more than $16.9 billion.SBA employees must manually enter the information, delaying loan decisions. But all that faxing, data entry and waiting will likely disappear as lenders begin using SBA's recently launched E-Tran online loan application.
GSA's E-Travel is ready to leave the station
The National Science Foundation has waited nearly three years for an electronic travel system, but patience seems to be paying off.The agency will join seven others as the first adopters of the General Services Administration's E-Travel initiative. By early summer, NSF plans to award a task order for a reservation and voucher system to one of three E-Travel contractors: Carlson Wagonlit Government Travel Inc. of San Antonio, EDS Corp. or the Mission Systems unit of Northrop Grumman Corp.
NASA fly-by portal monitors rainforest
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe last month inaugurated a 3-D visualization portal for fly-through surveys of Central America's data layers, captured by satellites.
OPM looks for e-learning services help
The Office of Personnel Management earlier this month released a long-awaited request for proposals to buy online training, products and services to support its GoLearn Web site.
Architect of the Capitol signs services deal
The Architect of the Capitol will buy workforce management services from Avue Technologies Corp. in a 10-year deal worth more than $30 million, officials of the Tacoma, Wash., company announced this month.
Defense picks consultant for IPv6 transition
The Defense Information Systems Agency has hired SI International Inc. of Reston, Va., to help define and develop solutions for the Internet Protocol version 6 Transition Office.
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