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School violence simulation helps train police
The recent rash of school shootings nationwide has led a Seattle company to develop a computer simulation program to help train police officers on how to deal with potentially deadly situations on a school campus.
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NFC modernizes retirement savings system
The Agriculture Department's National Finance Center next month will launch an imaging system as the first step in an effort to modernize the system that processes the government's $82 billion retirement savings plan. NFC maintains the records and accounts of federal employees participating in the
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GPS satellites live longer than expected
Nashville, Tenn. The Air Force Navstar Global Positioning System Joint Program Office has a problem rarely encountered in a society that treats many products as disposable items: The GPS satellites have a longer life span than anticipated, so the office will have to come up with a plan to take a
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DOT's George Molaski begins a third and final endeavor?public service
For George Molaski, the Transportation Department's first chief information officer, a job with the government seemed like the logical next step for someone who already had experienced life as a student and a businessman.
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IRS to request more modernization funds
The Internal Revenue Service next month plans to ask Congress for more money to begin work on specific projects for the tax agency's modernization contract. IRS chief information officer Paul Cosgrave said the agency nearly has completed its request to fund five business systems modernization proje
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Eprise brings order to Web authoring
Most agencies and departments still are treating their World Wide Web sites as hightech bulletin boards, where data is simply posted by a Webmaster for general consumption. That's like using the telephone to send Morse code. If you want to explore the cutting edge of workgroup Web site authoring,
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Navy Seventh Fleet undertakes Y2K landing exercise
The Navy's Seventh Fleet has kicked off an operational Year 2000 exercise on and around Okinawa with eleven ships and thousands of Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, which will conduct an amphibious landing with their clocks rolled forward to the new year.
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CSC to acquire Nichols Research
Computer Sciences Corp. today announced plans to buy Nichols Research Corp., a defense and intelligence research specialist and systems integrator, in a stockforstock deal valued at $391 million.
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San Antonio deploys server to handle transactions
In its latest effort to become Year 2000compliant, the city of San Antonio has deployed Amdahl Corp.'s Millennium mainframe server, which, as part of its core information technology infrastructure, will be capable of managing the one millionplus daily transactions performed by city departments.
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Pa. site aims to ease way for entrepreneurs
Gov. Tom Ridge announced Thursday that Pennsylvania would soon launch a World Wide Web site with the goal of making the commonwealth the easiest place in the nation for entrepreneurs to start a business.
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911 cell phone call tracking to be required
Cellular phone companies must soon provide the means to track a caller's location on 911 calls made from their phones, according to revised standards adopted on Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Y2K work needed on federal support systems
While more than 95 percent of the data exchanges between the federal government and the states are ready for the Year 2000, some states have yet to finish work on systems supporting key federally funded programs, according to a U.S. Office of Management and Budget report issued on Monday.
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Washington launched smoking prevention site
Washington state's Health Department on Wednesday launched a smoking prevention World Wide Web site that provides users with a variety of information, including ways to quit smoking, talking to children about tobacco and firstperson accounts of smoking and tobaccorelated experiences.
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Floyd drives traffic to FEMA Web site
Interest in Hurricane Floyd has driven traffic at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's World Wide Web site to a new record, a FEMA official said yesterday.
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Carolina sites offer hurricane updates
The official World Wide Web pages for North Carolina (www.state.nc.us) and South Carolina (www.state.sc.us) both contain pertinent information about Hurricane Floyd for residents turning to the Internet for news and updates
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Critics question NTIS closure
Various government and industry experts fear the Commerce Department's plan to close an agency that collects and sells federal information to the public could make it more difficult for the public to find government documents.
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Students Web pages to explain tech vision
The National Science Teachers Association has partnered with the Toshiba Corp. for an awards program next year that encourages students in kindergarten through 12th grade to design World Wide Web pages that explain their vision of the future of science and technology.
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U.S. says Eastern Europe vulnerable to Y2K
A State Department official today pinpointed Eastern Europe as a potential high-risk area for Year 2000 problems.
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Airlines: Summer flight delays stem from modernization woes
The long-delayed modernization of the nation's air traffic control systems have lead to the "horrendous" flight delays that have plagued travelers this summer, according to a top official from the association that represents the U.S. commercial airline industry.
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