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Telecom experts gear up for new administration

A presidential advisory committee has established a task force to help bring the next administration up to speed on critical infrastructure protection issues

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NOAA buoyed by undersea info

Researchers can get nearrealtime data on underwater volcanoes, thanks to a modem on a buoy stationed a mile above the sea floor

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Smart road comment period widened

The deadline for public comment on DOT's vision to integrate Intelligent Transportation System technologies has been extended until Sept. 23

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Move over infomercials

Chicago suburb takes to the airwaves in hopes of preserving its sales tax base by turning residents off to e-commerce

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Review: A friendly project management package

By keeping things simple, Project Office 3.0 from Pacific Edge Software ensures that your agency staff actually use this project management software

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USPS explores delivering residential mail online

Service would link customers' electronic addresses with their physical addresses

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Michigan county integrating court systems

The new system should make it easier for various court departments to obtain information from one another while eliminating redundancies

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Letter to the editor

The story uses sensational quotes taken out of context from a wideranging interview that took place about three months ago to paint an incorrect picture of our experience as well as our relationship with our contractor, DynCorp.

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New alliance targets federal space

Global Management Systems, an IT consulting firm specializing in network and systems integration services, has formed an alliance with Visionael, a knowledge management solutions provider

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Supercomputer stacks up

A supercomputer unveiled July 25 already has government customers lined up to use it, for tasks such as simulated flight testing of military jet fighters, designing replacements for the space shuttle and studying the origin of life in the universe. Backlog orders for the system total more than $100 million, industry sources say.

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Feds digitize spread of West Nile virus

USGS has launched a hightech surveillance effort to track the spread of the virus using stateoftheart mapping and geographic information systems

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Labs make room for high performance

NASA, Air Force researchers turn to new SGI supercomputer for high performance at a low cost and small space

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The supercomputer's building blocks

Following are the individual components or 'bricks' included in the new Silicon Graphics Inc. supercomputer:

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Like a sieve

Recent disclosures of classified or sensitive information:

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The circuit

Margaret Evans, the acting deputy associate director for national security at the Office of Management and Budget, leaves her job next month to join Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s federal office in Herndon, Va., where she'll handle information assurance and intelligence.

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Will Linux steal the party?

Linux once was seen as a 'Windows killer,' but that potential seems to have faded.

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Round 2

'N/MCI: Buyers beware' [FCW, July 24] should have said that if the Navy opted to conduct a test pilot of its proposed megaintranet, users at the Naval Air Systems Command would have had to pay more than 50 percent more per seat during the first year than the estimated average cost during the first year of the contract.

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Security funding foiled by politics

The Clinton administration is urgently seeking a 15 percent increase in funding for critical infrastructure protection initiatives in its fiscal 2001 budget, but its request is being blocked by electionyear politics and partisan paralysis, according to experts.

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A quick boot on the move

Federal employees who are constantly on the move and need to boot their PCs in a hurry or perform administrative tasks including operating system recoveries now have a product that can do both.

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NASA lab rethinks Unix

The Solar System Visualization Project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is as much of a powerUnix shop as there is.