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NGA seeks changes to electronic signature bills

Governor's group wants to ensure that states' existing laws are not superseded

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IT drives DOT goals

Transportation Department's GPRA report shows success on highways, trouble on runways

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Roster Change

FCW's weekly lineup of federal IT decisionmakers on the move

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Letters to the editor

Letters

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Pa. Project to Overhaul Policing

The Pennsylvania State Police has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. to serve as the systems integrator for a program that will incorporate computers into every facet of the commonwealth's crime-fighting efforts.

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Ga. Trying for Quicker Twister Warnings

Technologies designed to improve tornado-warning times for Georgia citizens are operating in three Atlanta locations.

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Results Act reality check

'Government needs to run more like a business.' It is difficult to imagine how many times that phrase has been uttered since Congress and the Clinton administration got serious about reforming the way government programs, and the information technology projects that support them, are managed. However, like many political slogans and mottos, the saying sometimes doesn't pass the reality test.

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HP storage devices offer relief

HewlettPackard Co.'s new NetStorage 6000 is designed to tackle two of the toughest issues facing federal IT managers: uncontrolled data growth and mixed computing environments.

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Reaching the Poor Via High Tech

Despite funding cuts, states are finding ways to use information technology to help society's most underprivileged families and individuals, concluded a recent study by the National Association for State Information Resource Executives, the organization representing state government chief information officers.

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Measuring agency performance: Out of reach

It is clear to Dean Mesterharm, the Social Security Administration's deputy commissioner for systems, that investing in information technology is essential for SSA.

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Connecticut Follows Every Dollar

Connecticut has developed a World Wide Web site to give taxpayers and policy-makers unprecedented information on how the state spends the money it borrows through bonds.

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Intel TeamStation System From PictureTel

The Intel TeamStation System ships with a PC containing an Intel Pentium III processor running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT 4.0. Its line rate is 400 kilobits/sec and its frame rate is 30 frames per second.

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Think before you mail

Can someone who mails a letter reclaim it from the U.S. Postal Service before it is delivered? Or will the letter, once placed into the mail, be delivered to the addressee even if the sender has a change of heart about sending it? This seemingly trivial question can have a surprising importance in the law of contracts.

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Data center selling points

The growing number of companies trying to win government outsourcing dollars are counting on three Bs to sell their data center services: bandwidth, backup and bulletproof design.

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ScanMail broadens virus fight

Trend Micro Inc. last month released the latest version of its antivirus software for Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange, which for the first time can scan both incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses.

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Maine Proposes Laptops for Students

Every seventh-grade student in Maine would get a free laptop that they could keep after graduation under a precedent-setting proposal by Gov. Angus King.

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Rentable apps provider makes GSA schedule

Application service provider USinternetworking Inc. (USi) last week became one of the first companies to be awarded a General Services Administration schedule contract for enterprise application hosting and management services.

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IP videoconferencing arrives

The new products work well; it's the IP plumbing that needs work

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VTEL Galaxy 725 MT

The Galaxy 725 MT is a brand-new PC-based computing product from VTEL that targets the lower-end market.

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Polycom ViewStation SP

The ViewStation SP was the simplest and, at $4,000, the least expensive of the systems we reviewed.