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Agencies Secure Intranets with Firewalls
Although Internet security awareness is growing the security of internal networks has been 'abysmal " according to Richard Power an analyst with the Computer Security Institute San Francisco. This shortcoming is more serious than it used to be because organizations 'are now conducting missioncrit
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Compartmented Mode Workstations still in demand for secure applications
Despite having been orphaned by the Defense Intelligence Agency Compartmented Mode Workstations still are being produced enhanced and sold to the Defense Department. And there is even a growing sense of a potential market for spinoffs in the civilian government and commercial sectors. CMW a type of
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DARPA prototypes take new approach to design
While software developers slave away to develop innovative applications that will run efficiently on operating systems (OSes) designed in a different computing age nextgeneration OSes are beginning to take shape. Sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) these efforts are
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Orders begin to flow through ITOP pipeline
Business on the Transportation Department's Information Technology Omnibus Procurement (ITOP) is beginning to flow as the first task orders move through the $1.3 billion multipleaward contract. Awarded in May ITOP is a governmentwide IT services pact spread across 20 prime contracts. The sevenyea
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Agencies seek to harness the power of distributed print
Distributed print services play a key role in getting federal client/server systems to run smoothly in heterogeneous environments, and for organizations that put effort into properly managing them, it is an area that can pay large dividends. Electronic distribution to networked printers can drastic
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Internet Security Systems offers firewall tester product
Internet Security Systems Inc. recently released Version 3.3 of Internet Scanner, a popular firewall testing product. The new version of Internet Scanner adds an enhanced graphical user interface and a graphical representation of the results of a network scan, according to Patrick Taylor, director
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Feds turn to hierarchical storage management to migrate data
As the federal localarea network culture matures and storage requirements multiply, users are demanding automated storage management. Rising to meet the demand are new, integrated and robust hierarchical storage management (HSM) products that promise greater efficiency at affordable prices. HSM re
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DARPA pushes large-systems survivability
As defensive information warfare assumes a higher profile throughout government, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is placing renewed emphasis on its yearold Information Survivability program with a new push into largesystems survivability. The agency recently released a broad agency
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Agencies take a RAD approach to development
RAD consists of tools, techniques and methodologies designed to speed application development. RAD reduces paperbased documentation, automates code generation and facilitates user participation in design and development activities. The technology, in some cases, can allow a small development team
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PC-Based Servers
The demand for file servers of all sizes and configurations has never been better, in both the federal and commercial markets. In particular, however, federal buyers are snapping up PCbased servers, which gain high marks from shoppers for their performance and ever more affordable prices. Some thi
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Air Force mulls on-board commercial backbone
The Air Force is looking to Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and VMEbus backplane technology to upgrade onboard communications on command and control (C2) aircraft and to eliminate interoperability problems caused among the many nonstandard systems that are currently used. Central to the new Airbo
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Agencies adopt management tools to monitor distributed systems
Agencies with large, diverse client/server environments are buying distributed systems management tools to help keep their missioncritical applications up and running. Systems management tools have long been a fixture of mainframeclass computing. But until recent years, those tools have been lack
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Systems management standards move ahead
The Desktop Management Task Force, a group which includes IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., has issued the Desktop Management Interface. DMI promises to make "agent" technology remote processes that capture performance information and can receive orders to take corrective actions
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DOD tries on wearable computers
Not content with handheld computers, military computer users moving through confined spaces such as tank turrets and ship scuttles are demanding something different: wearable processors. A small number of vendors have developed wearable computers that combine headset video and voice activation soft
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