Government splits tablet procurement
The government is again hitting challenges balancing the all-of-government direction of ICT procurement with the pressing needs of individual departments.
The government is again hitting challenges balancing the all-of-government direction of ICT procurement with the pressing needs of individual departments.
Reports that Iranian electronic warfare experts may have succeeded in intercepting and capturing a sophisticated U.S. <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222728/Iran_tricked_U.S._spy_drone_into_landing_in_country_report_says">spy drone</a> was received with some skepticism by security analysts.
The U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone that was recently captured and displayed by Iranian authorities may have been tricked into landing in that country after being electronically ambushed.
NASA's newest robotic rover has already begun its work although it's only a few weeks into its eight-month-long journey to Mars.
The FBI has denied a request for the release of information regarding its use of Carrier IQ's software, saying that releasing the information could interfere with ongoing law enforcement operations.
TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) introduced a portfolio of managed mobile communications services on Monday called TotalCom for government agencies and businesses.
Security researchers at Symantec today confirmed that exploits of an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability targeted defense contractors, among other businesses.
Adobe today confirmed that an unpatched, or zero-day, vulnerability in Adobe Reader is being exploited by criminals.
NASA's $2.5 billion robotic rover Curiosity has begun its long journey to Mars on a mission that the space agency hopes will further its understanding of life in the universe.
The failure of the Congressional Super Committee to reach a deficit reduction agreement triggers automatic federal spending cuts beginning the next fiscal year, which will likely make a lot of government IT contractors nervous.
Three Republican presidential candidates at Tuesday's CNN-sponsored GOP debate said that cyberattacks pose an emerging national security threat to the United States.
SEATTLE -- There is almost an obsessive focus at the supercomputing conference here on reaching <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209918/Obama_sets_126M_for_next_gen_supercomputing">exascale</a> computing, a level of computing power that is roughly 1,000 times more powerful than anything that is running today, in this decade.
Cray Inc. is building a supercomputer for federally funded scientific research under a contract valued at $188 million that was <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218989/IBM_NCSA_abandon_petascale_supercomputer_project">originally won by IBM</a> .
NASA is nearly ready to launch its SUV-size super rover to Mars later this month.
Twitter and Facebook are enabling the Central Intelligence Agency to get reliable, real-time assessments of public sentiment during rapidly changing events around the world.