Raytheon BBN to Develop Program to Document Emerging Scientific Literature

Raytheon BBN, a subsidiary of Raytheon Co., has been selected to develop a program that expands the recognition and awareness of emerging technologies in published scientific, technical and patent literature, the company announced.

BBN will develop the program under a $5.2 million contract with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.

The Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition program, will…

Air Force Sends General Atomics Drone to Afghanistan

The Air Force is sending a General Atomics Predator C Avenger drone to Afghanistan, according to a Flightglobal report.

The Avenger is referred to as a test aircraft, but Flightglobal reports the order meets Defense Secretary Leon Panetta‘s request for reconnaissance and strike capabilities.

“This aircraft will be used as…

NIST Rolls Out New Authentification Guidelines

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has put out a revised guideline for electronic authentication for verification of users of their Web-based services.   The original Electronic Authentication Guideline was published in 2006, addressing agencies who handled user identification. However, NIST issued revisions as it indicated that there was an assumption…

Federal Spending Moves to Cybersecurity, Contractors Follow

It has become evident of recent that agencies are beginning to refocus much of their spending toward cybersecurity related activity.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, for example, plans to increase cybersecurity research spending by 50 percent over the next five years, according to an ExecutiveGov…

Mobility, Social Media Highlight IDC’s 2012 Government IT Forecast

Operational efficiency, mobility, smart government and economic stability will be the key themes of government investment in information technology for 2012, according to a forecast from IDC Government Insights.

As covered by InformationWeek, IDC predicts governments at all levels will spend nearly $82.4 billion on hardware, software and IT services in 2012.

IDC found…

Contractors with Large IT Force, Capabilities Set to be Top Dogs in Growing Cyber Market

Reports wide have indicated that as federal spending on information technology will slow, spending on cybersecurity will not follow that same trend.

The Washington Post reported that this trend will take place between 2011 and 2016 with cybersecurity remaining the outlier. 

This may come to no surprise when taking a recent Symantec recent

IBM Launches Free Smarter Computing Simulator to Assess IT Costs

IBM announced it is offering a way for businesses to assess potential spending cuts by using the company’s Smarter Computing approach.

The Smarter Computing Workload Simulator makes possible for business owners to assess potential Information Technology costs and savings.

The simulator is a free online application, and according to Mike Zimmerman, a spokesperson for IBM, “anyone can use…

CNSI to Support Census Bureau Data Management, Mobile Computing Centers

CNSI announced it has been contracted by the Census Bureau to provide support in establishing Bureau centers for mobile computing, data management, enterprise content management, analytics and data visualization and enterprise services. 

CNSI said it will give program support to the chief technology officer in order to establish centers of excellence within the Bureau’s Center for Applied…

HP, Microsoft Partner to Deliver Public Cloud Services

HP Enterprise Services and Microsoft Corp. have announced a global, four-year initiative to deliver Microsoft’s communications and collaboration products via the public and private cloud.

Through the public cloud, Microsoft will deliver its collaboration and productivity tool Microsoft Office 365. A Microsoft release said the companies’ cloud solutions will shift information technology from…

DARPA Looking to Develop Mobile Devices to Command UAVs

In September 2011, researchers from Boeing Co. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported they had created a prototype iPhone application that could successfully control a miniature unmanned aircraft vehicle in flight.

On Dec. 5, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced it is looking for developers to create mobile applications that would improve the functionality and capabilities…