People

Customs and Border Protection to expand wireless test

CBP will take its Border Net program to the Great Lakes region.

Digital Government

GSA program offers latest in satellite services

The SATCOM II contract offers services that extend to areas across the country and around the globe, where traditional networks and cellular links often fail.

Modernization

UCLA spinoff to help DARPA increase network bandwidth

Under a $5.96 million contract, Silvus Communication Systems will build and demonstrate multiple input/multiple output wireless communications technology for MANETs.

Digital Government

Partners get ready for IWN

Justice Department is ready with plans for the initial implementationsof its Integrated Wireless Network project.

Modernization

DOJ taps General Dynamics for IWN wireless comm system

The network will provide consolidated communications among the federal, state and local levels of government and law enforcement.

Cybersecurity

DOD at work on more wireless policies

One forthcoming policy will address the "Starbucks problem," in which remote DOD users connect to nonsecure wireless links.

People

The battle for spectrum

Growing demand and a finite supply of radio frequencies could force confrontation — and compromise — between the U.S. government and competing global interests.

People

Army can now jam IEDs without disrupting communications

The Navy helped the service remove conflicts from the frequency spectrum so that IED jammers and communications equipment can be used in the same environment.

People

Dix to direct Juniper's government affairs

The Capitol Hill veteran will act as a liaison between Juniper and Congress, the executive branch and federal agencies.

Modernization

GSA defends deal with Treasury

GSA will halve management fee, but only for some services.

Modernization

DOD rolls out radio-over-IP net

The U.S. Central Command is using the RIPRnet, which links analog radios to a IP-based network, to support convoy operations in Iraq.

Modernization

911 vendor joins partnership

911 Enable will participate in the National Emergency Number Association's Next Generation Partner Program.

People

DISA seeks broadband satcom service for Air Force One

The service, which will also cover 26 other Special Air Mission aircraft, should provide voice over IP, videoconferencing and other applications.

Modernization

Cisco bites Apple

Cisco files suit over Apple's iPhone name, after five years of unsuccessful negotiations.

People

Interactive Intelligence to open East Coast regional HQ

The developer of business communications software said the new office in Herndon, Va., will serve its federal clients, including the Defense and Homeland Security departments.

Digital Government

CES: GPS serves up new options

Products on display at the Consumer Electronics Show include a cell phone with integrated GPS technology.

People

DISA to develop satellite comms architecture

The agency is asking industry to help develop a Transformational Communications Architecture for satellite systems that serve DOD, the intelligence community and NASA.

Modernization

6 technologies that reshaped government

In FCW’s first two decades, innovations paved the way for better information sharing.

Modernization

Web extra: Transforming technologies made their mark in the past 20 years

CD-ROM, GIS, viruses and wireless computing had significant effects on how government conducted business.

People

Counter-IED systems jam tactical comms in Iraq

Technology designed to defend against improvised explosive devices is interfering with a wide range of tactical radio systems, according to the Naval Sea Systems Command.