Sun's McNealy: Java won't be open source
Despite urging from competitors and open source advocates, Sun Microsystems Inc. will not open the source to its Java programming language anytime soon, Sun CEO Scott McNealy says.<br>
Labor releases free e-learning app
The Labor Department is offering agencies a free version of an application it created to build multimedia training sessions.<br>
Open-source committee will advise agencies for free
Agencies can now get free advice from the new Government Open Source Advisory Committee, which includes some of open-source software's most influential leaders.<br>
Online Extra: Grand Challenge Wrapup
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, where the robots began to take control.As the sun rose, a fire engine-red Hummer bounded from a starting chute'fashioned from a pair of concrete bunkers'and drove off into the desert. No driver was on board. The vehicle was controlled by a set of Intel Itanium processors.
Storage group tackles data management standards
The Storage Networking Industry Association has set out to develop standards and best practices for the emerging practice of information lifecycle management.<br>
Robot rally puts the pitfalls of autonomous vehicles on display
MOJAVE DESERT, Calif.'The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency saw firsthand this month how difficult it is to make vehicles self-navigating. None of the 13 entries that qualified for the agency's first autonomous-vehicle race got much past the starting line.
DARPA enters uncharted network territory
ANAHEIM, Calif.'If pilot efforts at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency pan out, the battlefields of tomorrow will swarm with self-propelled attack vehicles reliant on advanced software and networking gear.
DHS taps Anteon for support work
The Homeland Security Department has awarded integrator Anteon International Corp. a contract to provide IT services to the Coast Guard.<br>
Darpa's desert duel
Robotic race gets off to a shaky start Saturday.<br>
Finalists named in DARPA's Grand Challenge robotic race
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency today made the final cut of autonomous vehicles to participate in Saturday's million-dollar race across the desert.<br>
New OS coming for robotic combat
The Defense Department plans to develop the Common Operating System for command and control, weapons management and other functions involving unmanned combat air vehicles.<br>
DARPA takes aim at IT sacred cows
Now that the Defense Department is embracing network-driven warfare, it is taking a hard look at radically improving, or discarding altogether, some fundamental computer and network architectures.<br>
DARPA wants to commoditize space gear
Taking a cue from the IT industry, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants the satellite industry to offer the same off-the-shelf standardization that now keeps costs down for personal computers.<br>
DARPA casts new focus on urban warfare technologies
Reacting to the military's now regular engagement in urban combat, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will research technologies to help soldiers fight in cities.<br>
Teams gear up for million-dollar DARPA robot race
A week before the Defense Department's first autonomous vehicle race, 25 teams are scrambling to ready their vehicles for the run across the harsh Mojave Desert.<br>
Breaking point
Don't be mistaken: Optical disks won't last forever.Many users think the disks are indestructible, but they are wrong, said Fred Byers, an IT specialist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
FEMA frets about power line broadband
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is worried that sending data through power lines could disrupt its National Radio System.The agency responded to a notice of inquiry issued in May by the Federal Communications Commission on whether, or how, the agency should regulate an emerging technology called broadband over power line, or BPL.
Command unifies Unix, Windows inventories
The Army Intelligence and Security Command is putting its inventory of Unix and Microsoft Windows systems on the same screen.The command's computers, spread across 180 locations worldwide, collect global intelligence for warfighters. INSCOM operates about 800 servers running Windows and 3,000 workstations and servers running Unix.
Army prototypes world's highest-resolution projector
The research center of the Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command has built what it claims to be the world's highest-resolution large-screen projector.<br>
Defense to certify EA software vendors
The Defense Department will start certifying enterprise architecture software that is compatible with the agency's own architecture terminology.<br>
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