DOE commissions world's fastest supercomputer

The Energy Department will build the world's fastest computer - 50 trillion floating-point operations per second.

Loans going, going, gone at FDIC auction

FDIC's first online asset auction draws participation from 45 financial institutions.

Accenture: Agencies must get market savvy

One of the newer challenges government agencies face is getting the word out about their electronic services, a new survey finds.

SEC hires Northrop Grumman for e-doc work

The Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a $25 million contract to provide document-imaging services.

Three teams vie to design JTRS

Competition is heating up for the next phase of the Defense Department's Joint Tactical Radio System: Teams led by Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., and Northrop Grumman Corp. have submitted proposals to design JTRS Air Force and Navy radios.

Long Island school tests bar codes for emergencies

An elementary school on Long Island is trying out bar codes as a way to keep track of students during emergency evacuations.

Prototype Army projector offers a really, really big show

An Army research center has cobbled together what it calls the world's highest-resolution, large-screen projector.Commanders hope to eventually use it to view large maps with detail down to street names.

Battle brewing over successor to DVD format

With the release of what it claims is the first blue-laser optical disk reader for data, Sony Corp. has kicked off a standards war over the eventual replacement of DVDs that promises to be comparable to the Betamax-versus-VHS clash.

Remote-access software gets 508-compliant

Danware Data A/S of Denmark has modified its NetOp Remote Control system administrator software so that it meets the mandates set forth by Section 508; the company says it's the first remote access software to do so.

IRS tests 2-D bar codes for scanning e-forms

Hoping to reduce manual rekeying in future tax seasons, the IRS is testing an embedded 2-D bar code from Adobe Systems Inc. to automatically capture information from tax forms.

Battle brewing over the successor to the DVD

With its release of what it claims is the first blue-laser optical disk reader for data, Sony has kicked off a standards clash over the eventual replacement of DVDs.

OASIS tackles modular documentation

A Web services standards body wants to make technical documents modular so they will be easier to update and reuse.

Need for hierarchies makes taxonomy an essential ingredient in content management

A taxonomy is critical to running a large Web site with a content management system because the software requires that site documents and other information be classified in hierarchies.

Think of content like laundry

In much the same way separating colors from whites in your laundry ensures best results, agency webmasters should host static and dynamic Web pages on separate servers to minimize response time, one content management software provider suggests.

Capturing Content

What's the advantage of having a content management system for online information?Ask the IRS. Its Web content management system has brought kudos, not complaints, from the General Accounting Office.

Some NASA software could soon be open-source

NASA, a big user of open-source software, is crafting a software license to release some of its programs to open-source users. The results could improve NASA's own software and promote its mission.

FAA considers commercial satellites for traffic control

An air traffic control experiment in Alaska could extend traffic coverage via commercial satellites.

Research company promises better compression

KT-Tech Inc. is pitching to agencies a compression codec that it claims is more efficient.

Navy deploys interactive white boards

The Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center has bought two interactive white boards from Smart Technologies Inc.<br>

New standards body to push grid to enterprise

A group of IT companies has formed the Enterprise Grid Alliance to help prepare enterprise grid tools for public- and private-sector use.<br>

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