NGA earns higher profile, new home
Ground has been broken at Fort Belvoir, Va., for a new headquarters for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
NOAA taps Intelsat General for GEONETCast deal
NOAA has awarded a contract to Intelsat General to provide continuous environmental data distribution over much of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Information backroads
GCN Insider | U.S. cities, once hot to invest in municipal Wi-Fi projects, are now backing off.
TSA approves four products for airport screening
The Transportation Security Administration identifies the first four products approved for airport screening systems.
From Earth to the moon
Google is working on doing for the moon what it has already done for the Earth.
Nortel, Tandberg combine forces
Tech brief | Nortel Government Solutions and Tandberg Federal have agreed to provide joint voice, video and data collaboration solutions for federal agencies.
Removable and rugged
Tech brief | CRU-DataPort has introduced the Data Express DE275, a low-profile, removable hard drive enclosure used to hot-swap hard drives mounted in workstations and servers
Kevin Bankston | New threats to privacy
Kevin Bankston, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, speaks from personal experience on the need for privacy rights. Recently, he experienced the issue firsthand when he was photographed and his image was posted online.
House bill calls on NOAA to coordinate coastal mapping
A House bill tasks NOAA with mapping underwater territories.
TSA issues list of qualified screening products
Three years after being directed to establish a qualified-products list for airport screening programs, the Transportation Security Administration has released its first list of such products.
Vista password reset
GCN tech brief | Lieberman Software's Account Reset Console now supports Windows Vista and beta versions of Windows Server 2008.
Twitter us skeptical
GCN Insider | We're more than a little skeptical about twittering.
Pssssst! One word: Energy
GCN Insider | The word for the next decade or so could well be energy ' cleaner, more efficient energy.
Your call may be monitored
The speech analytics technology used at call centers has made great strides in recent years, though agencies and vendors are awfully quiet about what they're doing with it.
Highway maintenance
Florida lowers the toll of turnpike maintenance with a system that combines asset tracking and GPS data.
MPC bids for Gateway's Professional
Idaho-based MPC is in the process of acquiring Gateway's Professional business.
Your call may be monitored
GCN Insider | Call centers may slice, dice and examine your call to reveal a lot more than you ever imagined.
Group establishes common specs for GIS mapping
The Open Geospatial Consortium has approved two new specifications designed to ensure greater interoperability among geospatial applications by standardizing their architectures.
Engineers create weather risk Web site for New Orleans
The Army Corps of Engineers has launched a Web site that offers geospatial tools so that residents and policymakers alike can assess the risks and potential consequences of future hurricanes in the New Orleans area.
Augmentix offers rugged notebooks
The Augmentix XTG630 meets the MIL-STD-810F standard for fully rugged notebooks.
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