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Navy eases shipboard purchasing
The Navy Supply Systems Command has upgraded its standard logistics software and communications program to enable deployed ships to electronically sign government credit card invoices, allowing those ships to avoid paying interest on late payments. This upgrade to the Navy's Standard Automated Logi
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Navy kicks off radical intranet buy
The Navy plans to use a radical strategy to build its much anticipated megaintranet, which will provide 450,000 users worldwide with items ranging from PCs to communications pipes and could cost as much as $2.2 billion. In an industry briefing set for July 7, the Navy plans to back what it describ
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Hill freezes GPS funds
Congressional concern about a Federal Aviation Administration program has the potential to jeopardize civilian and Defense Department initiatives based on the satellitebased Global Positioning System. In fiscal 2000 Transportation Department appropriations bills, the House and the Senate have kill
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DOD debates GPS receivers
The details surrounding this spring's capture of three U.S. soldiers who were patrolling the border between Macedonia and Yugoslavia have sparked a debate among Defense Department officials about the usefulness of an information system that some say could have prevented the incident. After Serb for
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Unisys expands e-commerce site for fed biz
Unisys Corp.'s Federal Systems Division has revamped its 2yearold electronic commerce World Wide Web site known as Select IT so that federal buyers can access databases holding Unisys' governmentwide acquisition contracts. Select IT, which will remain part of the revised site, has served governme
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Washington clears state programs for Y2K
Washington agencies are all but finished clearing state programs for the Year 2000 date change, according to statewide riskassessment report released last week.
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Report: Government must work to attract IT workers
Report released last week by the CIO Council argues that the government must do whatever it can to make federal jobs more attractive to potential information technology workers, but the group stopped short of recommending a separate government IT pay scale.
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Gemplus tailors smart card for PKI
Smart card vendor Gemplus this week will unveil a smart cardbased security solution that authenticates users who access corporate networks and perform online transactions. The solution also provides tools to manage the cards. Extranets, intranets and virtual private networks are driving new ways o
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GSA launches intrusion-detection net
The General Services Administration last week asked industry for information about emerging security technology for detecting unauthorized users on agency networks, with the goal of building a government intrusiondetection system by the end of next year. In building the Federal Intrusion Detection
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Switching to the fast lane
Because of their speed and simplicity, network switches are replacing hubs and routers as the dominant form of internetworking in localarea networks today. Federal agencies are making the leap away from hubs and routers to take advantage of new capabilities offered in the latest generation of netw
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SAIC to leverage Boeing fed work
Science Applications International Corp. has been busy buying up small technology companies at the rate of more than one per month since January, but it had not shopped in the federal marketplace until this month, when it announced plans to buy Boeing Information Services Inc. SAIC's purchase of Bo
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IRS' Prime can set an example
If ever written, the history of federal information technology projects would not be a testament to good management and efficiency. The list of overbudget, behindschedule and poorly performing systems is a long one. So it came as a mild but welcome shock when the General Accounting Office a
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What are the rules on spam?
A private organization asked the following questions: What are the rules on sending bulk e-mail? What does Virginia's new anti-spam law provide?
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Senate passes bill to restrict access to chemical database
The Senate this week unanimously passed a compromise version of a bill that would restrict public access to information, especially data in electronic form, about the risks of chemical accidents.
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Senate panel nixes Customs upgrade funding
The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday denied funding for a massive Customs Service modernization program.
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Rhode Island New Home to Microsoft Training Center
Warwick, R.I., will be the next home of a Microsoft Corp. Certified Technical Education Center (CTEC), with classes beginning this summer, city officials said this week.
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Interior unveils Indian record system
The Interior Department today unveiled a computer system that it hopes will improve the management of records associated with the Indian Trust Fund a complicated amalgam of land records, bank accounts and other records that the department acknowledges has been poorly organized and maintained.
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OMB Wants Earlier Cutoff on State/Local Y2K Buying
House committee members and administration officials on Wednesday said they generally support a proposed bill that will allow state and local governments to buy Year 2000 products and services off General Services Administration federal supply schedules, but they do not agree on the end date.
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USPS taps NCR for customer terminals
The U.S. Postal Service awarded a $67 million contract this week to NCR Corp. for terminals that the Postal Service plans to use to offer more services and information to customers at retail windows.
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