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Roster Change
President Clinton last week named Joshua Gotbaum as controller and executive assistant director at the Office of Management and Budget. As OMB controller, Gotbaum will be the head of the Office of Federal Financial Management, coordinating such things as the use of financial management systems and
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Vendors get stamp of approval
A U.S. Postal Service program launched last week to make it possible for people to use their PCs to download, print and pay for postage online relies on a number of advanced technologies, including digital signature and publickey infrastructure. USPS has worked for more than three years with sever
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Lobbying for IT
Daniel Bennett has never been able to stray too far from Washington, D.C. Take, for example, the time he planned to bicycle across the country. He made it as far as Boston before he threw in the towel. An Alexandria, Va., native, Bennett is a principal at the eadvocates consulting firm that counse
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Census to count online
After a successful pilot test this spring, the Census Bureau has decided it will allow up to 100 million citizens to file their census forms via the Internet during the next national head count. Census said people who receive the standard census form, known as the short form, will have the option o
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BMC opens professional services group
BMC Software Inc. has formally launched a new professional services business unit to help its customers, including federal agencies, optimize BMC Software products and improve the performance of critical applications. BMC Software, a Houstonbased company with several hundred enterprise management
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W.Va., Microsoft set up pilot for senior citizens
West Virginia, a state technical school and Microsoft Corp. have set up a technology training pilot program for the state's senior citizens.
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SSA offers Web training to site staff
The Social Security Administration plans to hire a vendor to develop an inhouse World Wide Web training curriculum and teach Internetrelated classes to agency employees who contribute to the SSA Web site. The six classes would be offered sporadically for a year and would be open to all 43 employe
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Agenda
1518 Technology Conference and Exhibition. Nashville Renaissance/Convention Center. Nashville, Tenn. Sponsored by the Federation of Tax Administrators, the conference includes sessions on technology initiatives, application demonstrations and speakers from industry. For information, visit www.taxa
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Overturn of e-records decision no reason to let up
Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned the Public Citizen v. Carlin decision that would have disallowed agencies from destroying electronic records without guidance from the National Archives and Records Administration, even when paper co
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Air Force poised to roll out global PKI
The Air Force is preparing to roll out a global publickey infrastructure security initiative that will tap into the bevy of contractor support available on the service's $750 million Information Technology Services Program (ITSP). Announced last month, the Air Forcewide PKI effort will be managed
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IBM wins State mainframe pact
The State Department recently awarded IBM Corp. an $85 million contract to lead a team of information technology vendors to support the department's data processing and communications centers. Bob Wissman, a contracting officer at State, said the Mainframe Resources Acquisition contract will help t
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Xybernaut wearable PC not always a good fit
Ghostbusters, Star Trek and Terminator come to mind when you see someone wearing the Xybernaut Mobile Assistant IV.
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Language shows world-view shift in federal IT
Remember ADP? What veteran of the federal computing scene doesn't? For the benefit of newbies, in federal parlance, ADP was not the name of the company founded by nowSen. Frank Lautenberg (DN.J.) that does payroll processing for businesses. Rather, it stood for 'automatic data processing,' and it
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Adams leaving SSA for SRA
Kathleen Adams, assistant deputy commissioner for systems at the Social Security Administration, will leave SSA at the end of September to take a position with SRA International Inc. Adams, who has worked in government for 27 years, will take an earlyout option and become a vice president for stra
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Federal Bytes
Y2K PROTECTION. The Year 2000 problem certainly has attracted its share of deviants and kooks, and no one knows that better than the federal employees working on the issue. In fact, General Services Administration employees have begun taking measures to protect themselves from hundreds of prisoners
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Office developer helps get the job done
Microsoft Corp.'s goals for Microsoft Office Developer (MOD) 2000 were to deliver a product that increases the productivity of developers, makes it easy to provide database access to any Office application and makes it simple to maintain and deploy resulting solutions. From our perspective, having
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E-commerce security: An identity crisis
To meet the burgeoning security demands associated with agency electroniccommerce efforts, industry has begun to offer comprehensive software and hardware solutions that provide a vital function: the ability to establish or 'authenticate' the identity of users involved in electronic transactions.
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DOE energizes site with extensive Web searches
The Energy Department's Office of Scientific and Technical Information has set out to make searching databases and the World Wide Web less frustrating. The agency, which has been disseminating information about energyrelated topics for 50 years, last week debuted a new search engine for querying d
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Sprint's Payne resigns
Jim Payne, former assistant vice president for FTS 2001 at Sprint Government Systems Division, today resigned from the company to pursue a job at another telecommunications firm.
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