Lots of software companies will either hire you on staff or contract with you as a freelancer to do remote quality assurance on their products.

You can pitch your writing & communication skills as an asset here. Instead of saying: this doesn't work, you can write reasonable, reproducible, clear defect and quality reports.

I stick in more advanced stuff into my code when I can, but that is always on the sly

Please don't do this. Resist the urge to get clever for the sake of being clever. This will almost always come back to bite you (or more likely a coworker) later in time.

With software, less is definitely more so try to write as little code as possible to solve te problem at hand.

SIPRNet only allows SECRET information and below. You need to be on JWICS to access Top Secret information.

making phone calls.

Seriously. I love my HTC Hero (Android 2.1) as a PDA but the phone call capability is not very good on it. If I'm doing something and a phone call comes in, sometimes I might miss it or the phone will freeze for a few seconds before the call comes through. Ever tried calling someone while they're calling you? Good luck with that on this phone. Oh well, thankfully, I don't make too many calls

If they're not quite the same thing, why bother comparing them at all?

I believe its worth noting that SAIC was behind the disaster that was the FBI's Virtual Case File project.

Consumer Reports seems to think so (with some caveats). They covered it in this months issue.

Perhaps this announcement explains why the Popcorn Hour C-200 is such a disaster. I had such high hopes for that device but it seems like Syabas spent little to no time on QA. They advertised wireless capability and shipped the device without a driver, the blu-ray drive they "approved" is EOL and there is a list of issues as long as my arm.

To me, it appears they were busy with the PopBox and didn't spend enough time on the C-200. I'll pass on anything from these guys in the future

From the summary:

Why was the sic added to this statement? I'm not an English major but I don't find that sentence to use any archaic or incorrect spellings nor do I find the grammar to be wrong.

From reading the actual BAA, it sounds like this is not an effort to replace IP networks but to supplement them with additional protocols. In fact, the requirements explicitly state that MNP must carry legacy IPv4 and IPv6 traffic.

For a software position, try to see how well the company scores on the Joel Test:

1. Do you use source control?
2. Can you make a build in one step?
3. Do you make daily builds?
4. Do you have a bug database?
5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
7. Do you have a spec?
8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
9. Do you use the best tools money can buy?
10. Do you have testers?
11. Do new candidates write code during their interview?
12. Do you do hallway usability testing?

It is, in fact there are multiple, separate networks.

Other than the author repeating the word "sensitive" over and over again, there wasn't anything concrete in the article about whether the information was actually classified. I suspect it wasn't.

Have you ever release a large piece of software to a large group of users before? How about a small piece of software to a small group of users?

Something always goes wrong and there is usually a good reason for it. It should be a neat learning experience for all involved

If this interests you, check out the book, The Sword and the Shield which is compiled from the notes of a KGB archivist who smuggled documents from KGB archives for about 20 years.