Net-centric approach creates a software challenge
As the Defense Department gears its networks for greater use, its software needs also are changing.
Brookhaven deploys virtual tape backup system
Brookhaven National Laboratory has installed an administrative backup system that works like tape backup, but is a disk-based system.
Shuttle disaster spurs NASA to buy overdue computing power
The space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 pointed up NASA's fallback in high-performance computing.
In-house team wins NASA's 'Software of the Year'
NASA has formally recognized a development team at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., for an in-house, money-saving aerodynamic analysis application.
New benchmark tool available for testing performance of J2EE apps
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. has released Version 1.3 of a benchmark suite to measure the performance of Java2 Enterprise Edition application server-driven programs.
Search engine helper organizes results
Clustering software from Vivisimo Inc. can categorize results from 40 government Web site search engines, including the government's FirstGov portal.
Smart search
A commercial search engine ties together multiple pharmaceutical databases for the Food and Drug Administration's Drug Evaluation and Research Center.
Trade Commission frees directory source code
Free to a good home: source code for an online directory service.
Web services extend system functions
Raymond B. Wells had plenty of experience implementing large-scale government systems before he became chief technology officer for the federal unit of IBM Corp.
DISA: Systems too 'brittle' for net-centricity
One of the Defense Department's next big net-centric challenges is keeping services flexible, a DISA official said today.
DOD to use Linux clusters for combat simulations
The Defense Department has bought a pair of 256-processor Linux clusters to use in simulating global combat operations.
Cost saving app at Langley wins NASA award
A money-saving aerodynamic analysis app developed at Langley Research Center is NASA's Software of the Year.
Linux development goes corporate
To ease policy-makers' concerns about potential legal and security trouble from agency use of the open-source Linux operating system, Linux kernel manager Andrew Morton recently told Senate staff members that most kernel modifications now come from corporations, not individuals.
NSF funds database gymnastics
The National Science Foundation has the urge to merge, at least when it comes to databases.
Last call for federal XML case studies
Deadline for submitting input for a paper on federal use of XML is Friday.
Mozilla browser
The most recent reports of security holes in Microsoft Internet Explorer spurred the Homeland Security Department's Computer Emergency Readiness Team to advise users to employ another browser altogether, at least until Microsoft Corp. fixed the latest vulnerability. But now that the browser wars have subsided, what other options are still standing?
IBM to build Army supercomputer
Army picks IBM Corp. to build Linux-based supercomputer, expected to be one of the 20 fastest in the world.
NASA to unify Web sites
NASA will shortly collect its myriad Web sites under one portal and give them all a common look.
XML standards battle is brewing over Navy's data-sharing plans
Proposed Navy rules for Extensible Markup Language use are forcing other agencies to take a stand on how they share and reuse data.The Navy plans to adopt international interoperability standards that would eliminate document type definitions, or DTDs, which many agencies now use for sharing documents. Newer XML schemas are more suited to individual data elements.
Colorado city switches protocols to keep vehicles on track
When AT&T Wireless Services Inc. dropped its Cellular Digital Packet Data service, the city of Aurora, Colo., faced a tough choice.Aurora's public works division, which relies on a wireless automated vehicle locator for its fleet of about four dozen vehicles, had to switch to another provider, build its own infrastructure or convert to AT&T's new General Packet Radio Service.
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