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New Jersey Program to Provide Matching Loans to 23 High-Tech Companies
New Jersey's Technology Transfer and Commercialization Program (TTCP) will provide matching loans to 23 hightech companies in the state that are poised to supply advanced technology products to the marketplace.
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NOAA measuring Washington Monument using GPS
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration kicked off a survey today to determine within centimeters the exact height of the Washington Monument and whether it has sunk or listed to one side.
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Orange County, Fla., Broadcasting Trial Via the Internet
Florida's Orange County Circuit Court began to broadcast a trial via the World Wide Web Monday, marking the first time a state court has transmitted its official proceedings live over the Internet.
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Document Management System Saves Washington State Man-Hours
Washington's largest cabinet office, the Social and Health Services Department began to use a Webenabled document management, imaging and workflow solution that is cutting manhours needed to process requests and search for records.
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Three states deem systems Y2K-compliant
Only three states Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota have fully tested their computer systems and deemed them Year 2000compliant, according to testimony presented at a congressional hearing on Saturday.
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Environmental groups press EPA on info office director
A coalition of environmental groups has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to appoint as the head of its new Information Office the director of an organization that helps government agencies make public information available online.
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Intercepts
WHISTLEBLOWERS AND MORTICIANS. In a letter to Defense Secretary William Cohen, Rep. Dan Burton (RInd.) recently accused some department apparatchiks of injecting partisan politics into the investigation of Peter Leitner the senior DOD trade adviser whose computer was ransacked as he testified b
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FMC shifts contract filings to Internet system
The Federal Maritime Commission has decided to eliminate a dialup system that carriers have used for the past five years to file service contracts and change to an Internetbased system that will enable them to use offtheshelf software to file their contracts in standard word processing formats.
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IDI to field USDA laptops, desktops
The Agriculture Department earlier this month awarded contracts valued at about $18.7 million to Intelligent Decisions Inc. for laptops and desktops to support the department's program to field a common set of technologies. Under the three contracts, Intelligent Decisions will provide about 8,500 s
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EDS certified for security assessments
Electronic Data Systems Corp. has been approved to use an information security assessment methodology endorsed by the Critical Information Assurance Office (CIAO) to help federal agencies identify vulnerabilities in their computer networks. Agencies are turning their attention to security issues as
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Braille-ready laptop hits fed market
With the government renewing its efforts to accommodate employees with physical disabilities, Advanced Access Devices, maker of laptops for the visually impaired, is planning a push into the federal market. Its product, called SuperBraille, replaces the traditional laptop display with a Braille dis
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Apple Studio Display: Get the picture
In a style similar to Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh G3 computer, the Apple Studio Display arrives bearing the company's signature translucent blueandwhite shell. Its most remarkable feature, however, is neither its color scheme nor its spacesaving flatpanel design. What makes this display spe
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SEC accelerating file backup process
Within the next month, the Securities and Exchange Commission will make a major change in its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system, and if all goes well, no one will notice a thing. Working with Bell Atlantic Federal, the SEC is updating the way it backs up all the infor
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Comptroller general wrong about fed managers
According to David Walker, comptroller general of the United States, the cornerstone of efforts to implement performancebased management systems within the federal government is the adoption of a results orientation. I could not agree more. If an employee comes in to work simply to put in his hour
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Education looks for private IT partner
As it tries to comply with a legal mandate to improve its performance, a key office within the Education Department is moving swiftly to hire a single vendor to oversee its technology modernization program. Education's Office of Student Financial Assistance Programs (OSFAP), which manages close to
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Feds move closer to a 'single face'
Though the Clinton administration has yet to mandate a single system where agencies can post contract opportunities and other business opportunities for vendors, one posting system has captured the support of many agencies. The Electronic Posting System (EPS) is an Internetbased application that e
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Bill reopens encryption access debate
Renewing efforts to allow law enforcement agencies to access and read suspected criminals' encrypted electronic files, the Clinton administration has drafted a bill that would give those agencies access to the electronic 'keys' held by third parties. The Cyberspace Electronic Security Act, the draf
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Plugging into application services
Renting software applications via the Internet is poised to become a booming business in the fastpaced Internet economy, but the practice undoubtedly will take longer to filter down to government than to the private sector, where it is starting to bloom in small and midsize companies, experts said
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Treasury to pump up IT training
The Treasury Department aims to spend $20 million in fiscal 2001 to train its information technology work force more than double what it spent last year as part of a plan to improve the skills of its IT staff. The budget amounts to 3 percent of the department's IT payroll. In fiscal 1998, the d
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