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WEBThe Environmental Protection Agency is a well-oiled hybrid work machine standing up multiple digitization centers and transitioning to a cloud-based telephony system while training employees to adapt to the changes. FedTech explores technology issues and successes that federal IT leaders and managers face when they’re evaluating and ...
Computing Power of Apollo 11 & The Tech Behind It
WEBFifty years ago this week, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle landed on the surface of the moon at the culmination of the Apollo 11 mission, and human beings first set foot on the planet’s only natural satellite. The technological feat that enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to bounce around the Sea of Tranquility was the ...
ATO to cATO Cybersecurity Transition in The Federal Government
WEBA key benefit of a cATO is continuous monitoring of security system controls within IT systems. To achieve a cATO, officials will need to show that they have real-time or near-real-time cybersecurity countermeasures they can deploy, as well as a secure software supply chain. “Within the Army, continuous monitoring using a cATO helps us make ...
Review: Dell’s OptiPlex 7050 Was Designed with Feds in Mind
WEBIt’s been two years since the last revamp. Dell clearly designed the new OptiPlex 7050 series to capitalize on its past successes. Even though the desktop has a compact form factor — measuring 11.5 inches tall in its mini-tower configuration — it’s packed with one of the fastest Intel quad-core processors: an i7 running at 3.6 gigahertz.
What is NSFNET: How Tech Sparked Scientific Research - FedTech
WEBThe National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET), developed to help U.S. research scientists collaborate, was a crucial link between ARPANET and the commercial networks that served as the early public internet’s foundation. Along the way, NSFNET served as a demonstration for the technical underpinnings of modern networks — routers and ...
How IBM 7094 Gave NASA Computing Superiority in the 1960s
WEBThe IBM 7094 was the successor to the IBM 7090 mainframe. “Compatible with the IBM 7090, the advanced solid-state IBM 7094 offered substantial increases in internal operating speeds and functional capacities to match growing scientific workloads in the 1960s,” IBM notes. “The powerful IBM 7094 had 1.4 to 2.4 times the internal processing ...
Review: The HP Z4 G4 Workstation Unleashes Out-of-This-World …
WEBThe unit tested for this review, the HP Z4 G4, was created with more earthly, but equally powerful, applications in mind. The heart of this machine is an Intel Xeon Quad-Core processor running at 3.2 gigahertz. The CPU is backed by 8-gigabyte DDR4-2666 ECC SDRAM spread across eight DIMM slots for even quicker throughput and expansion …
What is CSfC: How CSfC Components Can Boost Network Security …
WEBThe CSfC program, which got off the ground in 2016, certifies commercial network solutions that agencies can use to create secure, encrypted networks. The program is designed to enable commercial products for use in layered solutions protecting classified National Security Systems (NSS) data. The goal, the NSA says, is to give agencies “the ...
How DOD Can Look Beyond SIPRNet and NIPRNet - Technology …
WEBThe Department of Defense should look beyond existing communication protocols — the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network and Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network — toward commercial solutions that support secure information sharing, say comms experts.. To that end, the National Security Agency’s Commercial Solutions for …
DEC’s VAX Superminicomputer Became a Mainstay in Federal …
WEBIn the 1970s — the era of Watergate and then of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter — the Digital Equipment Corp.’s VAX system helped fill the technology gap after IBM mainframes dominated federal computing but before smaller personal computers and the internet took off and became a key element of federal computing architecture, especially …