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Va. Gov James Gilmore announces internship program

Va. Gov. James Gilmore announced the creation of the Virginia Technology Internship Program (VTIP) at a meeting of his Commission on Information Technology yesterday at George Mason University.

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Feds not worried about Sept. 9 date problem

The federal government plans to do very limited testing'' of its computer systems as a practice exercise to determine potential glitches when the date Sept. 9 arrives next week.

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New Alexandria, Va. Headquarters for National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) said it will open its new headquarters in Alexandria, Va., Sept. 8. The project was made possible by a donation of more than $5 million in funding and technology from Computer Associates International Inc.

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Public Technology Inc. report helps Y2K plans

Public Technology Inc. last week released a report to help local governments plan for Year 2000related environmental problems.

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GAO finds programs that reveal delinquent taxpayers

A survey by the U.S. General Accounting Office found that four states and the District of Columbia currently have programs in place that publicly disclose the names of individuals and businesses that are delinquent in paying income taxes.

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Army investigators help nab hacker

Information provided by the Army's Criminal Investigation Division led the FBI to arrest a suspect in the June 28 hacking of the Army's World Wide Web site, according to service officials.

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Microsoft prez outlines future computer to Air Force

The president of Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday told a packed house of Air Force and industry representatives that the single biggest challenge facing the Defense Department and the information technology industry is finding more efficient ways to manage and communicate corporate knowledge.

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Government projects among award finalists

Twentyfive finalists were announced yesterday for the Innovations in American Government awards, including six state and local government projects that incorporate information technology.

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General: Cyberattacks against NATO traced to China

The president of Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday told a packed house of Air Force and industry representatives that the single biggest challenge facing the Defense Department and the information technology industry is finding more efficient ways to manage and communicate corporate knowledge.

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IT lessons emerge from Kosovo

In one of the first pubic discussions of lessons learned from the 78day military operation in Yugoslavia, senior Air Force officials today credited advancements in information technology for what they called the first successful military campaign to rely on air power alone.

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White House: GOP's technology budget cuts are political

The Clinton administration today accused Republicans on Capitol Hill of playing politics with science and technology funding in their effort to cut budgets for key technology programs while also proposing a major national tax cut.

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National conference to address IT gaps

U.S. Commerce Department Secretary William Daley announced last week that he will convene a national conference this fall to address information technology gaps that exist across the nation.

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Armstrong moves to CIT post

Anne Armstrong, editorinchief of civic.com and Federal Computer Week, was named president and chief executive officer of Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology at a press conference held Monday.

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U.S., map company to develop first digital National Atlas

The U.S. Geological Survey announced last week that it will team with private industry to develop an electronic National Atlas of the United States, an exhaustive and detailed catalog of maps of the country.

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Justice nabs hacker of Army computers

The Justice Department on Monday announced it had arrested the teenage founder of a hacker group that allegedly broke into and modified an Army World Wide Web site in June.

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Hollywood, Fla., gets new IT director

John Barletta , acting director of information technology for Broward County, Fla., will become Hollywood, Fla.'s new chief information and technology director Sept. 13.

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Web-based training 'Class of 2000'

As agencies mold their information technology operations to capture the power of the Internet, they increasingly are looking to online training tools to provide inexpensive, flexible alternatives to traditional classroom training.

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FAA to begin telecom integration project

The Federal Aviation Administration next month plans to release a draft solicitation for a $1.9 billion program to replace and integrate the agency's aging telecommunications systems. Under the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) program, the FAA will acquire groundtoground transmission,

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JMPS opens window to easier mission planning

Air Force and Navy strike and fighter pilots will use familiar Microsoft Corp. software tools and interfaces for highly detailed mission planning early in the next century as Logicon Inc. starts to roll out the new Windows NTbased Joint Mission Planning System. JMPS, a $453 million Naval Air Syste

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Letter to the Editor

Cynicism unfounded I deeply appreciated Steven Kelman's sensible OpEd piece, 'Public good not always second to politics' [FCW, July 12]. I too have found that people far too readily assume corrupt motives and payoffs where in fact people are working to do the best job they can. Pervasive cynicism