Contact Cisco Email FederalBiz@Cisco to a Colleague    Resources for U.S. Federal Civilian Agencies Defense Homeland Security Space   Taking the Pulse on Federal Enterprise Architecture Progress What progress have agencies made to-date on adopting the OMB 2004 Federal Enterprise Architecture roadmap? In a recent survey, agency managers were very clear about what resources they need to complete the adoption-and also about the ways they expect the FEA to help them meet their charters. (Hint: network security and cross-agency information and collaboration are seen as top benefits.) Read the results of an independent survey of federal decision makers conducted in August 2006 by Market Connections, Inc. Read More Cisco Connected Government: Rx for Faster Implementation of the Federal Enterprise Architecture Could network security be both a benefit of the FEA as well as an impediment to adoption? That's exactly what agency managers said in a recent survey. And they're correct. A shared infrastructure is easier to secure against threats originating outside government, but agencies still need a way to control which information they make accessible to other agencies. Find out how the Cisco Connected Government roadmap enables agencies to dynamically share information on a need-to-know basis with other agencies within a community of interest-while ordinarily keeping information private. Read more The TelePresence Experience High-level decisions in civilian and military agencies alike have traditionally required in-person meetings. But time-sensitive decisions cannot always wait until all parties can convene at a central meeting site. The traditional collaborative technologies leave out the visual cues that contribute to trust and truly effective interagency communications and collaboration. Now there's a groundbreaking alternative for government communications. Telepresence takes advantage of an agency's existing IP network to create the experience of interacting face-to-face around a conference table-even when participants are thousands of miles apart. Cisco TelePresence has the power to transform government processes ranging from disaster recovery to interviewing. Read More Cisco has more than 200 offices world-wide. Addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers are listed on the Cisco Website.       © 1992-2005 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices, Privacy Statement, and Trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc.