However consumers may think of oil companies as they fill their gas tanks these days, they might be surprised that the oil and gas industry is leading the way in cybersecurity with some significant work. The result of a workshop that took place more than two years ago, the project...
A multi-organizational team is adapting for Department of Energy use a technology that can help keep security adversaries out of DOE sites that contain nuclear assets.The DOE Office of Security and Safety Performance Assurance SSA is exploring the potential to use directed energy weapons technology sponsored by the Department of...
During a recent homeland security conference, an official of the National Security Agency NSA outlined the agency's plans to build its own secure wireless handset capable of voice and data communications over public networks, including CDMA, GSM and Wi-Fi. The handset,...
In the wake of September 11, the concept of public safety has taken on a new significance. For almost two years now, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jeffrey Danneels has been working with the EPA and the American Water Works Association Research Foundation AwwaRF to develop a...
After the Oklahoma City bombing of the federal building, the General Services Administration asked Sandia National Laboratories to a figure out a way the risk of potential threats could be analyzed. So Sandia created RAMPART, an acronym for Risk Assessment Method--Property Analysts and Ranking Tool, a piece of software. The...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ)(Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 -- BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence BI solutions, today announced that Sandia National Laboratories has selected Business Objects as its business intelligence standard. At any given time, Sandia manages between 8,000 to 10,000 different national security...
School systems across the country are relying on the latest high-technology tools to protect their school children. A scientist from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Sandia National Laboratories has authored a handbook that has become increasingly popular with school officials and parents. "The Appropriate and Effective Use of Security Technologies...
An ambitiously cooperative effort is currently underway, which combines the assets of Sandia National Laboratories, Underwriters Laboratories UL and the Security Industry Association SIA, Alexandria, Va. An ambitiously cooperative effort is currently underway, which combines the assets of Sandia National Laboratories, Underwriters ...
Backscatter, iris scans, millimeter waves, and "Micro Hounds." That's just a small sampling of the growing glossary of terms describing a burst of new technology conceived in defense of our homeland. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Eve ...
Technology that may be used as a weapon in an escalating war against terrorism could have roots in metro Detroit. Local companies are developing James Bondian technologies that could predict or even thwart terrorist attacks. At least one executive Technology that may be...
MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Appro (http://www.appro.com/), a leading provider of supercomputing solutions, today announces the final deployment of Appro Supercomputing Clusters to Advanced Simulation and Computing ASC that integrates the work of the three National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA Defense Programs laboratories: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los...
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced that the "Red Storm" supercomputer at Sandia NationalLaboratories was used to assist the U.S. Navy in shooting down a failedsatellite with a single missile strike. The satellite, which failed soonafter its 2006 launch, posed a potential safety hazard as it reentered...
Last year, the government posed a question for scientists: Could a computer program show how bombs might rip through jets? Today, that question is answered. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque have created the first computer model that simulates a bomb blowing up a passenger plane. The...
The Center for Liquefied Natural Gas CLNG offered strong support for the Department of Energy's and Sandia National Laboratory's efforts to improve understanding about potential risks associated with new, larger capacity LNG ships. "Sandia's conclusion that the risks associated with larger capacity LNG carriers are not fundamentally different...
By George Lobsenz After toting up 356 violations of classified data protection requirements across the agency in 2007, the Energy Department has warned the operators of its three nuclear weapons laboratories that they have not taken effective corrective action to stop incidents in which sensitive...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Woven Systems[TM] Inc., the leading innovator of Ethernet Fabric switching solutions for data centers and high-performance computing clusters to present at OpenFabrics Alliance 2008 International Sonoma Workshop. [TABLE OMITTED] About Sandia National Laboratories Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation,...
Like a bioterror crisis hot line, a new center in Livermore has become the nerve center for responding to the intentional or accidental release of a dangerous biological agent at public facilities across the country. Sandia/California National Laboratories in Livermore will be at the other end...
Interactive Supercomputing Inc. ISC addedIntel's High Performance Computing CTO, Bill Camp, to its board ofdirectors. Camp will join the board to help transition ISC from its hotstartup phase to an established, mature market leader in high performancecomputing software. ISC develops Star-P®, a software platform that delivers interactiveparallel computing power to...
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announcedthat Sandia National Laboratories hasentered into an agreement to upgrade its " Red Storm "supercomputer, already one of the world's largest systems, from 124teraflops one trillion floating points per second to 284 teraflops. Thissignificant boost in performance will...
LIVERMORE -- The Department of Energy revealed draft plans Tuesday to consolidate nuclear weapons work at eight sites, including Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories, a move that could result in a 20 to 30 percent reduction in workforce and the closing of 600 buildings. At...
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