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Toshiba offers consistency with new desktop, notebook lines
Toshiba America Inc. today released its Equium 7100 desktop PC series powered by Intel Corp.'s latest line of processors and announced that it is offering the Tecra 8000 series of builttoorder notebooks with Intel's new Mobile Pentium III 500 MHz processor and highcapacity hard drives.
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FBI funding bill targets high-tech info sharing program
The House and Senate last week approved an appropriations bill that gives the FBI $20 million for building information technology systems that should enable its agents to more easily share information on cases they investigate.
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Women Executives in State Government Selects IT Committee
Women Executives in State Government, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of cabinetlevel state government executives from across the country, recently named New Jersey chief information officer Wendy Raymer as the organization's chairwoman.
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AWIPS wins, Census loses in fiscal 2000 Commerce budget
The House and Senate last week approved the conference report on a bill that would offer critical funding for a highprofile information technology program at the Commerce Department. But the funds fall far short of President Clinton's budget request for the Census Bureau.
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OPM proposes new IT job categories
As agencies feel the pinch of a tight labor market, the Office of Personnel Management this week moved one step closer to revising the way the government structures and defines the work performed by its information technology work force.
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NGA Chairman Applauds Introduction of Uniform Wireless Tax Legislation
National Governors Association chairman Michael O. Leavitt on Wednesday praised the two senators who introduced the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act for including all levels of government in the development of a uniform model for taxing wireless communications.
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Kentucky Fields CIO Team
Kentucky's Commonwealth Virtual University, working in conjunction with PeopleSoft Inc. and eduprise.com, recently unveiled the first open standardsbased system that enables the integration of World Wide Webbased learning delivery systems and enterprise student administration systems.
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CIA concerned about potential Y2K-induced nuclear accident
The CIA's national intelligence officer for science and technology on Thursday warned members of Congress that widespread Year 2000 failures are highly likely throughout Russia and Ukraine, increasing the risk of a meltdown at one of the many Sovietera nuclear plants still in existence.
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GPO gunning for NTIS jobs
As critics questioned whether the decision to close the National Technical Information Service makes sense, officials from the Government Printing Office on Thursday asked Congress for control of NTIS' document collection and associated services.
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A 15-state alliance selects Dell Computer Corp. to supply computer systems
A 15state alliance has selected Dell Computer Corp. to supply computer systems to the association in an agreement that offers government and education agencies at the city, county and state level a single cooperative purchasing contract.
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House subcommittee enhances computer security bill, NIST's role
Following advice from federal and industry experts, a House subcommittee on Wednesday expanded the role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in helping to secure federal information systems, requiring more testing and evaluation of systems and annual progress reports on agency security efforts.
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New FAA systems will map problem areas in air traffic control
The Federal Aviation Administration is developing agencywide information systems that will provide officials a nationwide view of air traffic maintenance and management issues and enable them to pinpoint failures quickly and easily.
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Online Court Payment Company Donating Portion of Revenues to Nonprofits
Nonprofit organizations have until Nov. 5 to apply for monetary donations from Austin, Texasbased ECourt Inc., an online court payment company. ECourt's chief executive officer recently pledged to donate $1 out of every transaction fee and donate it to nonprofits.
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Virginia holding mock election on Internet
The largestknown mock election in Internet history will take place later this month in Virginia, when more than 5,000 high school students from 15 schools cast online ballots for the same candidates and issues their parents will consider on Election Day.
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Justice, Education give school security guidance
The U.S. departments of Justice and Education last month announced the joint release of a guide to help school and law enforcement officials assess school security needs and consider appropriate security equipment to make schools safer.
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Feds short on security 'best practice' studies
The United States faces an uphill battle when it comes to protecting critical infrastructure, because government and industry groups have not developed best practice studies and guidelines to show the best way to do so, according to federal experts.
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Super-secret NSA transitioning to commercial services model
The National Security Agency, the enigmatic signals intelligence arm of the Defense Department, is breaking away from its traditional role of building black boxes for encrypting highly classified information in favor of offering security and certification services similar to those in commercial industry.
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Computer, Internet access bridges 'digital divide'
The key to bridging America's digital divide and racial ravine is computer and Internet access in the home, but that is not the only problem lawmakers and citizens need to address, according to Larry Irving, former assistant secretary for communications and information at the U.S. Commerce Department.
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China, Russia possibly stole IT missile data, GAO says
China and Russia may have stolen sensitive technical data, including information on missile guidance and control hardware and software, during 14 overseas launches of U.S. commercial communications satellites, according to a General Accounting Office report released today.
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