VIRTUAL SPACE: Dapper Data Viewer is dandy
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory is exploring new frontiers on the Web with a browser-based application for viewing oceanographic and atmospheric data.
Content Management
ZyLAB North America LLC of McLean, Va., has released Service Pack 5 of its ZyIMAGE document imaging and records management software.
Tenix Datagate, EAL 7
They said it couldn't be done with a commercial product, but someone finally did it. Tenix Datagate Inc. of McLean, Va., received EAL 7 Common Criteria certification, the highest security level awarded by the National Information Assurance Partnership, for its Data Diode.
SanMelody for cheap SANs
DataCore Software Corp. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has released a version of SanMelody for iSCSI drives.
IT procurement in reverse
Earlier this year, the General Services Administration temporarily shuttered its eOffer online contract broker site, after finding a security glitch that allowed participants to change their competitors' bids.
Unwiring the USB cord
Installed on more than 500 million PCs worldwide, the Universal Serial Bus supplies easy connectivity for everything from printers to MP3 players.
Hooking up with RDF
Ex-Homeland Security Department metadata chief Michael Daconta may have trumpeted the Resource Description Framework in his 2003 book The Semantic Web, but for most shops, the benefits of RDF have remained academic.
Web browsers comply with Section 508
New versions tout better accessibility, but fresh issues loom for Web sites
Without a trace
Documents can reveal supposedly deleted data, but fortunately there are ways to make sure that secrets stay secret.
Wu Feng | New frontiers in high-end computing
Dr. Wu Feng is one of few government employees whose work has been cited in the book of Guinness World Records. In 2003, Wu and his team at Los Alamos National Laboratory engineered the highest-ever throughput for a sustained long-distance network connection'2.38 Gbps between Los Alamos and Switzerland (the record was broken the following year).
Cutting Edge: NOAA builds AJAX-based data viewer
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has released a browser-based application called the Dapper Data Viewer for viewing oceanographic and atmospheric data.
EPA Energy Star program to tackle server market
Perceiving a lack of solid power-to-performance metrics for increasingly electricity-hungry data centers, the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star efficiency program has turned its efforts to the server market.
State, OMB unveil new Web site designs
The State Department has given its home page a makeover to deliver a news feel, while the Office of Management and Budget has launched a new Web site that details the effectiveness of government programs.
NIST issues guidelines for data removal
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a set of recommendations for safely removing information from obsolete forms of storage.
OMB to name grants service providers
Three agencies given go-ahead as others told to curtail spending on new or modernized systems
DOD tackles parallel processing challenges with new program
A programming tool for parallel-processing environments that was originally developed with Defense Department funding is now available commercially from Management Communications and Control Inc. of Arlington, Va.
Inside the project: Service-oriented architecture
CHALLENGE: NASA needed a way of managing both a growing body of Earth science data'from NASA centers and academic partners'as well as an increasing number of software tools built to parse the data.
NASA discovers an SOA for Earth data
Ageny's early foray into Web services technology nets a fully functional service-oriented architecture
Now what?
Four years into the enterprise architecture initiative, agencies have blueprints in place. It's time to put those EAs to work.
Federal XML group starts strategic markup language
The CIO Council's XML Community of Practice has started building an extensible markup language-based schema that agencies could use to encode their strategic plans.
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