Earlier this year, President Barack Obama’s administration unveiled a proposal to commit more than $10 billion for the creation of a nationwide broadband network for public safety officials, thereby enabling businesses to grow more rapidly, teachers to better educate their students, and public safety officials to more easily and efficiently access state-of-the-art, secure, nationwide, and [...]
Over a six-week period this past summer, the United States Army tested the viability of using touchscreen phones and tablets in the field.
Does the Federal Government still need desktop computers? Mobile computers allow for the vision of anywhere, anytime work for virtually all Federal employees…
Panasonic Solutions Company was among the technology leaders exhibiting at this expansive event. It showcased its newest solution offering, the Panasonic Tactical Video Teleconferencing solution, alongside its Toughbook mobile computing product line.
The advent of cloud computing is enabling the decentralization of military systems. Now, using rugged IT hardware, from laptops to tablets to mobile phones, soldiers on the battlefield can access critical applications.
Today, former Microsoft executive, Steven VanRoekel, was announced as the replacement for the inaugural Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra. Kundra announced in June that he would resign this month for a fellowship at Harvard University. VanRoekel was most recently with the U.S. Agency for International Development, after a post as managing director of the of the Federal Communications Commission.
In an effort to optimize one of their primary functions – communicating with constituents – government agencies are increasingly turning to social media. According to a recent study from the Human Capital Institute and Saba, 66 percent of all government agencies currently use some form of social networking and 31 percent of counties and municipalities [...]
In FY2009 the cost of DoD maintenance amounted to a whopping $83 billion—a substantial portion of which was devoted to the maintenance of 14,000 aircraft. A recent Air Force Times article cited the U.S. Air Force’s plan to purchase up to 40,000 laptops and convert 65,000 of its technical orders (TOs) into “e-tools” digital format [...]
Military Embedded Systems understands that data security is “imperative”* for any mission critical device. Moreover, in awarding Panasonic Solutions Company the Editor’s Choice award for our collaboration with Mobile Armor’s DriveArmor data security management, it recognizes PSC’s commitment to providing end-users with the most secure and efficient mission critical tools.
Today, we announced a partnership with Reality Mobile to pair the ultra-mobile rugged Toughbook U1 tablet with Reality Mobile’s RealityVision software platform, providing government agencies with improved technology for situational awareness and crisis response.
