Blog:"FBI IT: Lessons To Live By"

"Real-Time Readiness Gets A New Look"

June 2, 2005 -- The Defense Department's logistics arm has overhauled the processes and technology used to ensure timely delivery of supplies to the military in a six-year, $751 million IT-modernization project that rivals the largest ever undertaken in the business world and is punctuated by the urgency of an ongoing global conflict.

"Star Wars Tests The Digital Cinema Supply Chain"

May 19, 2005 -- Shortly after the stroke of midnight on May 19, the words beginning with "Chapter III ..." began their slow crawl from the bottom of movie screens across the country. At 12:01 a.m., and not a second before, a small IT operations center perched several flights of stairs above a darkened auditorium in Brooklyn's Pavilion Theatre dropped its digital payload on an audience hungry for acrobatic light-saber duels, intergalactic dogfights, and an epic showdown between the Force and the Dark Side.

"Virtual CSI: Crime-Scene Investigations Go Digital"

May 13, 2005 -- For crime-scene investigators around the world, information technology is becoming an invaluable tool for cracking tough cases.

"Bush's Budget Stresses Return On Investments In I.T."

Feb. 14, 2005 -- Dig deep into President Bush's $2.57 trillion budget for fiscal year 2006, including $65.2 billion for IT, and notice how much IT is embedded into the fabric of government.

"Earth Observers Map Out Weather Early Warning System"

Jan. 27, 2005 -- With the aftereffects of the December tsunami that devastated South Asia uppermost in their minds, an international group of government leaders and scientists will in mid-February converge on Brussels with a plan to integrate weather forecasting and atmospheric analysis networks over the next decade into a worldwide early-warning system.

"GE Tests 'Wired' Shipping Containers To Combat Terrorism Threat"

Jan. 12, 2005 -- Each year, more than 9 million freight containers arrive at U.S. ports to quench Americans' appetite for imported goods--and carry with them concerns that container security could be one of our weakest links in the global effort to prevent terrorism.

"Uncle Sam's Guiding Hand"

Dec. 13, 2004 -- On the eve of World War I, a magazine called Leslie's Weekly published on its cover the debut of America's most enduring embodiment of Uncle Sam. Inside the magazine, the goateed, stovepipe-hat-wearing figure created by artist James Montgomery Flagg pointed directly at the reader, asking, "What are you doing for preparedness?" Eighty-eight years later, a flurry of new mandates, proposals, and pilot projects has Uncle Sam's finger pointed squarely at business-technology executives.

"Reason To Share"

Nov. 29, 2004 -- Politics and pride have for decades kept the U.S. intelligence community from communicating effectively within and across divisions.

"Step Up In Security"

Oct. 25, 2004 -- More than three years after 9/11, cargo container security remains an albatross around the collective neck of the shippers, carriers, and port operators that run the world's maritime commerce industry.

"Portal Keeps Candidates Safe"

Oct. 11, 2004 -- Behind President Bush and Sen. John Kerry's debate at Washington University last week was an intense IT-integration effort, pulling together national, state, and local emergency responders. These responders relied on the real-time flow of data to ensure the only bombs going off in St. Louis were rhetorical.

"Open Source Stress"

Aug. 9, 2004 -- Late last month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street analysts that the commercial software industry faces a risk: Open-source software could threaten the sector's profits in the next decade.

"A Vote For I.T."

July 19, 2004 -- In one unusual day last month, President Bush delivered his most concise address to date on the topic of business technology to a gathering in Washington. On the other side of the country, Democratic presidential challenger and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry made technology the focus of an address at San Jose State University. The message from both candidates was clear: IT matters in business, the economy, and the upcoming election.

"IT On Guard"

June 7, 2004 -- This week's Group of Eight Summit at a small resort island off the Georgia coast is the biggest test to date of the federal government's ability to coordinate secure communications among law-enforcement and other public officials at all levels of government.

"You've Got To Integrate"

May 17, 2004 -- The Naval Facilities Engineering Command this week will christen a project to integrate legacy, Web and Windows applications without the time and expense of conventional integration methods. It?s a project eight years in the making, and its outcome could have a major impact on how the rest of the Navy, even the Defense Department itself, tackles future IT projects.

"The Products of Research"

May 10, 2004 -- Hereditary angioedema is characterized by acute attacks of swelling and inflammation and can strike with little warning. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies have worked for years to develop treatments for this rare but life-threatening genetic disorder, but not a single drug has passed the FDA's rigorous registration process that would allow it to be sold in the United States. Dyax Corp., a small biotech company in Cambridge, Mass., may have found a remedy.

"Investor Blasts SCO's Strategy On Linux"

April 26, 2004 -- SCO Group could be losing its strongest ally in the war for the soul of Linux.

"Data Sharing Between States At Risk"

Feb. 9, 2004 -- Some states drop out of Project Matrix because of privacy and cost concerns. One of the earliest post-9/11 attempts at intergovernmental data sharing appears to be running aground as various states find that privacy, data security, and cost concerns outweigh the benefits of state-of-the-art criminal-tracking and -identification technology.

"NASA's IT Success"

Jan. 7, 2004 -- NASA's Mars mission reinvigorates one CIO's business-technology adventure. But the richly textured, red, digital images sent back to Earth belie the monumental task of sending such large quantities of data across tens of millions of miles.

"The New Drug War"

Oct. 6, 2003 -- RFID and electronic product codes will be on the front lines in the battle against counterfeit drugs.

"New Worlds to Conquer"

Sept. 8, 2003 -- For Michael Dell to double the size of his company, he'll need to move into new markets held by rivals that promise tough competition.

"Unix Notebooks Headed To Military In Iraq"

Aug. 20, 2003 -- Army will use computers from Tadpole and General Dynamics to replace much heavier devices.

"Is SCO Bluffing?"

June 12, 2003 -- Its CEO says he's ready to go to the mat with IBM about Unix licensing. Here's what could happen and why.

"Bounce Back New York Board of Trade"

Oct. 21, 2001 -- The urgent intensity of New York Board of Trade brokers seems a bit out of place among the quiet, low-rise brick warehouses of Long Island City in Queens. The Board of Trade scrambled to get two temporary trading floors set up after the terrorist attacks destroyed its 13 trading pits in the World Trade Center, allowing it to start trading when the markets reopened, six days after the Sept. 11 attacks.

InformationWeek Executive Profiles:

"Change Agent"

Feb. 2, 2004 -- Intel CEO Craig Barrett recognizes his company's influence in an evolving world.

"Technology To The Rescue"

Feb. 2, 2004 -- Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, put her career on the line two years ago when she spearheaded one of the largest corporate acquisitions in the history of the technology industry: HP's buyout of Compaq. She's spent much of the past two years ensuring that the merging of the two companies' cultures and technologies went smoothly. The first solid results showed up in fiscal 2003, when HP reported its first annual profit since buying Compaq.

"What A Job"

Aug. 25, 2003 -- New Tyco CIO Dana Deasy will be under pressure to help the company cut costs and clean up its numbers. He has yet to figure out how he'll get the job done--and who'll help him.