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Bloomington, Ind., Webcasting Candidate Forums
With election day approaching, voters in Bloomington, Ind., have a chance to meet candidates for city offices without leaving home and not because the political hopefuls are going doortodoor.
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National 'Information Architecture' Grows Out of Criminal Justice Network
A national initiative to develop a way for government criminal justice organizations to share information electronically eventually could lead to a national information architecture available to agencies across all fields and at all levels of government, according to top state officials.
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San Diego County Approves Outsourcing Contract
In an effort to create a virtual government, San Diego County will invest $644 million during seven years to revamp the county's computer and telephone systems, one of the largest technology spending plans to date by a local government.
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Schools at Y2K risk in new year
An Education Department survey released Wednesday revealed that thousands of schools nationwide may not open on time next year unless significant progress is made in fixing computer systems and developing contingency plans for the Year 2000 problem.
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N.C. putting e-services on fast track
North Carolina aims to puts its agencies on a fast track to deliver Internetbased services by developing a multipronged strategy the incorporates security, World Wide Web portals and other key components of electronic commerce on a statewide basis.
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FCW wins award for best government magazine
Federal Computer Week this month received a top award from Folio: magazine.
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DOD awards MCI WorldCom with wideband contract
The Defense Department has awarded MCI WorldCom Inc. a contract worth up to $2 billion to provide wideband telecommunications services to U.S. forces based throughout the Pacific and Asia.
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Illinois Awards $75 Million Contract for Telecommunications Relay Service
The Illinois Telecommunications Access Corp. (ITAC), on behalf of the 75 localexchange carriers in the state, awarded a contract worth up to $75 million to Sprint for a telecommunications relay service (TRS) that will support Illinois' deaf, hardofhearing, deaf and blind, and speechdisabled consumers.
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New Online Seminar Series for GIS Professionals Kicks Off Nov. 9
GeonetCom, a free online seminar series targeting professionals in government, telecommunications and utilities who are interested in learning more about geographic information systems (GIS) will hold its first session Nov. 9.
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Law enforcement tech funding OK'd
The House and Senate last week approved $250 million in funding for law enforcement technology as part of the $39 billion fiscal 2000 appropriations bill that funds the departments of Commerce, Justice and State.
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Clinton signs defense bill, vetoes Commerce, State and Justice bill
President Clinton on Monday signed into law the $268 billion fiscal 2000 defense appropriations bill, which provides $4.5 billion more than he requested, and vetoed the bill that would have funded the departments of Commerce, Justice and State.
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Commerce's CIO calls for federal IT czar
The Commerce Department's chief information officer today called for the creation of a federal chief information officer position to oversee, manage and provide a common vision for information technology programs governmentwide.
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Regulation would bar disreputable vendors from fed pacts
A proposed regulation that aims to protect the government from unreliable contractors is too vague and would hurt small businesses, senior government leaders told Congress last week.
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Marines say virus incident not an attack
The computer virus that found its way onto the network at Marine Cor
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FCC Makes Radio Spectrum Available for DOT's Intelligent Transportation Systems
The Federal Communications Commission last week decided to make a portion of the radio frequency spectrum available for the U.S. Transportation Department's Intelligent Transportation Systems operations, including communications between vehicles and electronic roadside systems.
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Pennsylvania Announces Lightning Manufacturing Project, Creation of 'Virtual Corporations'
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge joined representatives from industrial and technology companies last week in announcing the Lightning Manufacturing Project, which allows businesses to collaborate via the Internet as virtual corporations.
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Illinois Attorney General Files Suit Against Four Online Pharmacies
Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan last week filed lawsuits against four outofstate Internet companies for selling prescription drugs online without proper licensing, making the Illinois the third state, following Kansas and Missouri, to file lawsuits against online pharmacies.
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Thousands of health devices not Y2K-ready
The General Accounting Office last week warned members of a congressional subcommittee that tens of thousands of biomedical devices remain at risk for failure because of Year 2000 problems, and manufacturers and health care providers lack detailed information on critical life-support systems currently in use.
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Clinton, Congress get tough on USDA spending bill
President Clinton signed into law on Oct. 22 an appropriations bill that prohibits the Agriculture Department from buying new information technology systems or funding significant upgrades without the approval of the agency's chief information officer.
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