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DOD says SPS costs rise $100 million
Defense Department officials last week confirmed that the $326 million Standard Procurement System, a vital yet troubled part of the Pentagon's paperless contracting initiative, will need an additional $100 million to fix software problems and to sustain existing automated procurement systems. Late
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Wyoming high schools, agencies get videoconferencing
Under a $3 million contract with Tandberg Corp., Wyoming will install videoconferencing systems in all of its 76 high schools as well as the Wyoming Girls School, the Wyoming Boys School, the Department of Education and the Department of Administration and Information.
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ISS enhances risk-assessment tools
Internet Security Systems Inc. this week announced new versions of its vulnerability and riskassessment tools and took the first step toward integrating the management of all three products. The new versions of ISS' products Internet Scanner 6.0, Database Scanner 3.0 and System Scanner 4.0 p
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Fedwire Briefs
Clinton creates Net anticrime group President Clinton last week established a working group of top government officials to examine how law enforcement agencies can better investigate and prosecute criminal activities conducted via the Internet. The Clinton administration decided to form the workin
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PageKeeper Pro: Doc management at the desktop
Caere Corp. calls PageKeeper Pro a documentmanagement program. And so it is, although the program is not designed for networked workgroups that need checkin/checkout, redline tracking and other highend features. Instead, PageKeeper is designed for individual end users who need to keep track of
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NASA awards outstanding software
NASA officials earlier this month selected a project developed by a Long Beach, Calif., small business as one of the outstanding software programs of the year. Alpha Star Corp. worked with the space agency to develop Genoa, an application designed to predict the durability and life cycle of manmad
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Air Force passes Y2K test with flying colors
Senior Air Force officials last week said they are confident the service would be able to go to war Jan. 1, 2000, after a critical Year 2000 exercise that involved dozens of the service's aircraft and key command and control systems revealed no major system failures. The Y2K Flag exercise conducted
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OFPP plans governmentwide e-Yellow Pages
In an effort to help government buyers find the most suitable products and services available on government contracts, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy is considering building an electronic governmentwide Yellow Pages. The online listing would detail what contracts are available and how the
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Daley plan would close NTIS doors
The Commerce Department plans to close the National Technical Information Service because its core function of providing government information for a fee is no longer needed in the age of the Internet, Commerce Secretary William Daley said last week. NTIS collects, archives and sells scientific, te
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WebGov still suffers delays
After more than a year of work, a project to organize and centralize all federal government information on the Internet is still at least months away from completion. But the government's intentions to some day launch the megasite called WebGov has not stopped private companies from moving in, org
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Enviro groups endorse candidate for EPA IT position
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. In a letter to EPA administrator Carol Browner, the groups,
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Wipe Out! is first aid for CDs
You've probably experienced it at least once: You put your CDROM in the drive and it doesn't load. When you examine it and discover that the culprit is a scratch in the CD's surface, you figure it's a lost cause and pitch it in the trash. Thanks to Esprit Development Corp. , Flemington, N.J., this
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CACI names Johnson president
Kenneth Johnson, a former executive of Cordant Inc., PRC and other Washington, D.C.area information technology companies, has been named president of CACI Inc.
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DeKalb County, Ga., Citizens Access Records, Pay Taxes Online
A new online services tool enables citizens and local businesses in DeKalb County, Ga., to use their computers to access property records, pay property taxes and receive an entire property history without having to go to the courthouse.
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Washington, D.C., Lottery's Network to be Upgraded for Y2K
The D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board is upgrading its computer network to meet Year 2000 compliance requirements. The upgrade, under a $5 million contract with the OAO Corp., began last month. It must be completed by Oct. 23 in order to meet the Multistate Lottery Association's requirement and Washington, D.C.'s own gaming guidelines, said Georgia Bailey, project manager at Greenbelt, Md.based OAO, an aerospace and information technology service provider.
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Texas Workforce Commission Creates Free Statewide Online Employment Service
The Texas Workforce Commission has launched a free, online jobmatching system, which already is receiving 50 new jobs and 200 new applications daily.
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Congressmen to Kick Off First Virginia Internet Technology Week Meeting
The Internet Technology Innovation Center said Reps. Rick Boucher (DVa.) and Robert Goodlatte (RVa.), cochairmen of the Internet Caucus in the House of Representatives, will address the firstever Virginia Internet Technology Week on Sept. 13, the opening day of the conference.
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NGA takes on teacher tech training
The National Governors' Association meeting wrapped up here this week with a session devoted to harnessing technology in U.S. schools. But the conversation quickly turned to governors' displeasure with postsecondary schools of education, which they said are graduating teachers with a severe lack of technology education.
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Washington Transit Project Weds Information and Asphalt Highways
The Washington State Department of Transportation has struck a deal with Universal Communications Networks to install a $100 million fiberoptic backbone along the full length of three interstate highways across the state.
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