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Army jump-starts $1B global services buy
The Army has kicked off a systems integration and engineering procurement worth up to $1 billion that will provide Army installations and operations worldwide with the talent and expertise required to develop and maintain secure, stateoftheart global information technology systems. Total Enginee
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DOD attacks encryption bill
Senior Defense Department officials yesterday launched a fullscale offensive against a bill that would lift all controls on the export of strong encryption technology, increasing the risk to national security from terrorists, drug cartels and other criminals, the officials said.
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Commerce plans to go all-digital
Commerce Secretary Bill Daley yesterday announced that he plans to move the Commerce Department from a paperbased bureaucracy to an alldigital department in three years.
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Commerce: 1.3 million more IT workers needed
The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that between 1996 and 2006, the United States will require more than 1.3 million highly skilled information technology workers in core occupations such as computer science, engineering, programming and systems analysis.
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Y2K Community Conversation set for Memphis, Tenn.
The Clinton administration's Year 2000 czar, John Koskinen, and Rep. Harold Ford Jr., (DTenn.) will hold a Y2K Community Conversation in Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday.
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Internet "Forensic Tool" Can Trace Past Web Activity
A new Internet forensic tool has been introduced that aims to help educators, police and other law enforcement officials trace the past World Wide Web activity of computer users.
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PC Connection acquires ComTeq Federal
PC Connection Inc., a direct marketer of computers and related equipment, has announced plans to buy ComTeq Federal Inc., which sells computer equipment and services to government agencies.
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Pa. operates Governor's School for IT
Pennsylvania has become the first state in the nation to operate a Governor's School for Information Technology, after classes began at Drexel University and Penn State University this week.
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DOD investigating computer 'mob tactics'
The Commerce Department today announced the winners of a massive governmentwide information technology services contract that has a primary goal of funneling business to small and minority businesses.
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Hill gives $35M for initial IRS modernization
Congressional leaders today gave the Internal Revenue Service the goahead to spend $35 million on the first phase of its mammoth computer modernization project.
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Commerce awards mega-IT pact to support small, minority firms
The Commerce Department today announced the winners of a massive governmentwide information technology services contract that has a primary goal of funneling business to small and minority businesses.
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OMB wants report on agencies' security practices
The Office of Management and Budget last week asked agencies to review their security practices and policies and report back to OMB within 90 days.
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JetForm to support XML in forms software
JetForm Corp. plans to announce this week that its electronic forms products will support Extensible Markup Language (XML), a standard for defining World Wide Webbased documents that is gaining popularity as a way to secure and enable processing of online files. Like a competing proposal from form
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Innovation fund in limbo
A unique pot of money that was established in 1995 to nurture technical innovation governmentwide and was widely championed by Vice President Al Gore has been cut off from its source of income, leaving the fund's future in question. The General Services Administration, which supported the Informati
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Storm tech praised for May showing
When more than 70 tornadoes raged across central Oklahoma May 3, the National Weather Service credited advances in technology for helping to warn people well in advance and for saving lives, according to agency officials testifying at a congressional hearing this month. The lead time of tornado war
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CD-R writer makes duplication a snap
If you are looking for a system that can write data to multiple CDs at a rapid clip, look no further. MicroBoards Technology Inc.'s DSR 8800 CDRecordable duplication station, a highperformance standalone CDR tower featuring precision technology from Hoei Sangyo Co. Ltd., is perfect for governme
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JUNE 1999 2830 Catalyzing the Extended Enterprise: Clicking With Your Customers. Hyatt Regency San Francisco. San Francisco. This conference will deliver the strategic scenario perspective and the tactical bestpractice proof to help you meet your application delivery challenges for 1999 and beyon
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GSA creates virtual contracting school
The General Services Administration has created a virtual university to help federal employees who have been given the freedom to order products and services from contracts without having received training in the procurement process. Many people using the multipleaward schedule contracts of GSA's
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Roster Change
The Association for Federal Information Resources Management this month gave out its annual awards. Bruce McConnell, director of the International Y2K Cooperation Center, won AFFIRM's Executive Leadership Award for his efforts to promote international cooperation in handling the Year 2000 computer
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