Military Wraps reveals Pirate

Military Wraps, the camouflage provider, will this week premier the newest advance in immersive, real-world combat training, the Pirate, says Stockhouse.

Pirate, acronym for Photo-Immersive Realistic Aides for Training Environments, is poised to deliver an order-of-magnitude advance in military and police mission-specific instructional practice.

Pirate accurately recreates situational realism with site-specific, high-megapixel photographic images, computer-edited for proper scale and perspective, and rendered by large-format printing technology onto special vinyls which are then applied to interiors or exteriors of training sites.

In response to the revelations about White House e-mail practices, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have introduced the Electronic Communications Preservation Act, says FCW.com.

The bill would direct the Archivist of the United States to issue regulations that require federal agencies to preserve electronic records - especially e-mail messages - in an electronic format.

Current National Archives and Records Administration regulations permit agencies to preserve electronic records by storing them in an electronic format or printing them on paper and saving the paper. Agencies almost universally choose the paper option if they preserve their electronic records at all.

San Francisco wants to cut its paper use in offices by 20% as part of its new environmental strategy for the city, says PCWorld.

In total, San Francisco uses about 215 million sheets of paper per year, spending about $946 000 on paper. That doesn't account for some of the other expenses involved with printing, such as the ink and the hardware.

But the city wants to become more environmentally responsible. A broad set of information and communication technology goals was outlined earlier this year by the mayor, Gavin Newsom, and the IT staff is now at work on meeting these goals.