WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 150 new technology products will
be introduced at FOSE 2006, the government's largest gathering of information
technology professionals. Some 550 exhibitors will attract 20,000 federal
high tech buyers along with 5,000 industry professionals to learn about the
latest technologies at FOSE 2006 on March 7-9 at the Washington DC Convention
Center. Registration for FOSE is free for military and government
professionals and $50 for industry at http://www.fose.com.
"Industry has responded rapidly to the federal government's burgeoning
need for innovative technology solutions, and we will be showing off their new
products at FOSE," said Lorenz Hassenstein, vice president of PostNewsweek
Tech Media. "Leading corporations such as Apple, Booz Allen Hamilton,
Computer Sciences Corporation, Cisco, HP, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft,
Research In Motion, Verizon and hundreds of other firms, small and large, are
introducing new ways for government to operate more efficiently, safeguard our
country, and move our national agenda forward. The Federal government's 2007
budget includes over $64 billion for new technology spending, and products for
cyber security, homeland security, and geospatial are hot areas of growth, and
FOSE is the place to plan for those purchases."
* Basis Technology Corporation of Cambridge, Massachusetts will showcase
digital forensic products that automatically analyze captured hard
disks and are widely used in the U.S. defense and intelligence
industry. The objective is to analyze and identify data (text, phone
numbers, credit-card numbers, email addresses, and other unstructured
text), in any language, and to extract information for analysis.
* Cisco Systems, Inc. of San Jose, California will demonstrate a
Continuity of Operations (COOP) program in a mobile response vehicle
that contains voice over the Internet integrated with wireless and
satellite connectivity, security, Internet Protocol telephone,
fax/secure phone, and routing and switching capability on the FOSE
exhibit floor. The solutions was used during Katrina to provide life
saving communications capabilities rapidly to help the Red Cross,
local utilities, the National Guard and first responders achieve their
missions in relief efforts.
* EDAC Systems, Inc. of Fredericksburg, VA will announce VeriDact, an
off-the-shelf verification software package for automatic removal of
private or confidential information and declassification of documents.
VeriDact automatically searches text and identifies words, phrases and
sections for redaction, and is used by Federal, state and local
government applications where security and confidentiality insure that
the rights and safety of individuals and the country are preserved.
* HP of Palo Alto, California will be strengthening its position in the
document capture market with the introduction of a new line of
scanners to provide more document management options for organizations
looking to accelerate workflows, reduce the cost of operations and
control risk while managing business-critical documents.
* Kirtas Technologies, Inc. of Victor, New York will have on hand their
150 lb. robot, the new APT BookScan 2400, that can take a 300-page
bound document and automatically scan the entire book or document and
make it searchable in 177 languages in less than 8 minutes.
* Meganet Corporation of Los Angeles, California will present their bomb
jammer VME Terminator H2 mounted on a Hummer. Improvised Explosive
Devices (IEDs) claim casualties in Iraq every day, and the VME
Terminator H2 high-power vehicle-mounted broadband bomb jammer puts
IEDs out of commission.
* NITGEN Co., Ltd. of Seoul, Korea will unveil an innovative biometric
technology that uses the first "aliveness" detection tool in the
world. The system detects fake fingerprints such as silicon, gelatin
and films.
* Palm, Inc. of Sunnyvale, California will unveil to the government its
new Palm(R) Treo(TM) 700w smartphone, the first Treo smartphone to
runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system and take advantage
of Verizon Wireless' BroadbandAccess service on its EV-DO network.
The Treo 700w smartphone provides built-in support of diverse email
platforms, from Microsoft Office Outlook to AOL, on-device access to
Microsoft Office applications as well as Picsel PDF viewer, support
for Wireless Sync and a unified messaging application.
* Recovery Point Systems of Gaithersburg, Maryland will discuss their
new Washington area based integrated disaster recovery site which
brings together in highly secure facilities all of the resources
required to rapidly recover government and industry operations in the
midst of a catastrophic event -- independently powered work areas,
emergency accommodations, shielded connectivity, secure hosting that
can mirror ongoing client desktop activity, and all forms of data
storage. The emerging disaster recovery market is estimated at $5
billion.
* Sun Microsystems, Inc. of Santa Clara, California will be showcasing
the Solaris 10 open source operating system that has set 57
performance and price/performance world records and has surpassed more
than four million registered licenses since its launch last year.
Also demonstrated will be the Sun Ray Desktop clients, widely used by
the Navy and other agencies. Sun Ray Desktop clients have no hard
drives or moving parts and cut maintenance costs.
PostNewsweek Tech Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post
Company (WPO), is the leading media company in the government technology
community, offering focused national publications, web sites, trade shows, and
conferences for the government technology market. PostNewsweek Tech Media
produces Government Computer News, a controlled-circulation magazine published
thirty times per year for government managers who buy information technology
products and services; Government Leader, a controlled-circulation magazine
focused on the important issues in public management, human resources,
financial management and technology published 6 times a year; Washington
Technology, a twice-monthly controlled-circulation magazine for government
information technology system integrators; Defense Systems, the leading
magazine for defense transformation; FOSE, the premier technology exhibition
and conference in the government market; and government's executive business
conference, IRMCO, for the U.S. General Services Administration. For further
information about PostNewsweek Tech Media, go to
http://www.postnewsweektech.com.
Registration for FOSE is free for military and government professionals
and $50 for industry. To register for FOSE 2006 or for more information about
the event, go to http://www.FOSE.com or call 1-800-791-FOSE.
SOURCE PostNewsweek Tech Media
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