Monitors let NASA Ames know when there's trouble in the air
George Alger supports 4,500 users at NASA Ames Research Center, and they're all 'on one big network,' he said.
Appliances keep security refreshed
Appliances and services designed specifically to supply ongoing security measures are hitting the marketplace.
Mappers write Cookbook 1.0 for Web services
The Open GIS Consortium Inc. has put together a batch of not-yet time-tested recipes in Cookbook 1.0, the first in a planned series about Web map services.<br>
Template tool helps agencies make their case, vendor says
OMB Exhibit 300, the capital asset plan and business case document that agencies must present to the Office of Management and Budget to win funding for their projects, has taken on heightened importance this budget season.
Navy users invite others to try collaboration tool
As the military services rush to build out their knowledge-sharing initiatives, one group at the Naval Air Systems Command's Program Executive Office for Strike Weapons and Unmanned Aviation has customized a collaboration tool it's eager to share with other agencies.
Robotic Recruitment
For the last nine years, NASA has been recruiting future high-tech employees by letting them play with robots.
Vendor tailors template for creating business cases
OMB Exhibit 300, the capital asset plan and business case document that agencies must present to the Office of Management and Budget to win funding for their projects, has taken on high importance this budget season.<br>
'Every veteran has his or her own war'
In honor of Memorial Day next Monday, the Library of Congress has posted the digitized memories of 10 U.S. veterans on the American Folklife Center site.<br>
64-bit Unix notebook-server for $2,995
Tadpole Computer Inc. president Mark Johnston intends to put the Unix notebook maker 'on a progression to multiprocessor' in the notebook form factor.<br>
At Sybase, new 'life beyond the database'
Sybase Inc., founded almost two decades ago, has discovered new 'life beyond the database,' which includes a new Capitol Hill presence.<br>
Is HSD unprepared for biodefense?
The Homeland Security Department 'is not constructed properly' to counter biological terrorism, said Dr. Tara O'Toole, director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies.
Survey gives Gulf states that sinking feeling
Two decades' worth of measurements by the National Geodetic Survey show coastal states steadily sinking into the Gulf of Mexico.
Geodetic Survey: Gulf states are sinking
Measurements by the National Geodetic Survey show that coastal states are steadily sinking into the Gulf of Mexico. NGS and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials said land there could subside a foot or more over the next decade. <br>
New rugged notebooks get tougher: biorugged
The definition of computer ruggedness has changed.
IRS boasts gains from Free File, PC filing
The IRS said its online Free File initiative 'surpassed expectations,' with more than 2.4 million taxpayers using the free service available through a consortium of preparers.<br>
Some handhelds now rugged enough to disinfect
At FOSE 2003, several vendors touted their handheld computers' resistance not only to the military essentials'dust, moisture and shock'but also to sterilization.<br>
Biometric standards gain more overseers
The International Committee for Information Technology Standards this week named four new task groups to rein in the proliferating methods and formats of biometric authentication.
EOS watches Iraq smoke plumes
As media computer simulations zoom across battlefields in Iraq, NASA's Earth Observatory Natural Hazards Web site, at earthobservatory.nasa.gov, shows images of oil well fires and dust storms in southern Iraq.
Wireless LANs join Marines in the war zone
When Marines went ashore on Iraq's Faw Peninsula last month, they checked out their equipment with 2,000 gun-shaped, handheld computers acquired under the Defense Department's $248 million Automated Identification Technology-2 contract.
Brass: Networked sensors power war
While U.S. troops with 20th-century technology fight a primitively equipped enemy, the Defense Department's Office of Force Transformation is exhorting the troops and their suppliers to wield more 21st-century weapons.
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