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New Web Site Lists Debarred and Suspended Vendors
State and local governments looking to steer clear of contractors or vendors on other government blacklists can use the World Wide Web to access a database on debarred and suspended vendors.
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Balancing Act
It used to be that you could bulk up on computers and power supplies to ensure that your server farm stayed up and running and was safe from outages. But oldfashioned redundancy isn't always enough these days. With the growing demands on World Wide Web and application servers, one sick server can
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Florida Web Forum Points State Webbies to Resources
Florida's Web Forum will meet later this month to forge a dialogue between government systems administrators and World Wide Web designers and content developers across state agencies.
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SMS Data Products enters SAN market
Reseller SMS Data Products Group, McLean, Va., launched its entry into the storagearea network (SAN) market late last month with a solution that combines the company's disk storage technology with SAN management software from Transoft Networks Inc. The solution offers customers the option of buyin
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Agencies batten down
A growing wave of hacker attacks on federal World Wide Web sites, including an attack that resulted in the FBI shutting down its site for more than a week, has raised agencies' awareness of their vulnerabilities and spurred efforts to increase their online security. As a result, agencies recently h
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Federal Bytes
OLDBOY NETWORK STRIKES AGAIN. The Transportation Department received an 'F' last quarter on Rep. Stephen Horn's (RCalif.) Year 2000 report card, mostly because the Federal Aviation Administration was behind the mandated schedule for having all its missioncritical systems fixed. FAA officials rec
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Federal IT job overhaul overdue
At last, the Office of Personnel Management appears ready to tackle the government's perennially difficult and growing information technology worker shortage. It could not come a moment too soon. OPM sources say they plan this summer to revamp the way the government structures its IT work force to
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Dell expands offerings on its GSA schedule
Dell Computer Corp.'s General Services Administration schedule contract has been growing recently, and the company plans to expand its offering to federal agencies even further in the future. Last month Dell added Tektronix Inc.'s Phaser 840, 740 and 740L lines of color and colorcapable printers t
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Pen tablets show impressive tech gains
Somewhere between notebook computers and personal digital assistants lies the penbased computer, which allow users to run applications and enter information using a penlike stylus and a touch screen instead of a traditional keyboard. While passed over in the past by some IT managers because of a
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IDI gears up Portable-3
Hoping to catch the peak of the summer buying season as well as an opportunity to provide systems to U.S. forces slated for deployment to the Balkans, Intelligent Decisions Inc. plans to jumpstart its Army Portable3 contract as quickly as possible. Although the Army Small Computer Program Office
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Education expands data center outsourcing
The Education Department takes another step closer to completely outsourcing the operation of its mainframe systems this week as it turns over the management of another of its major mainframe systems to Computer Sciences Corp. The 10year, $97 million deal for management of the Central Processing S
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Digital Budget Wars
Should Santa Monica, Calif., build a new skateboard park? Or should money be spent on better policing for Main Street and the Ocean Park neighborhood? Rick, Jim and Marilyn think the skateboarders should get the nod. Michael wishes the city would just clean up the neighborhood. And Derek thinks San
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Cisco debuts stackable workgroup switches
Cisco Systems Inc. late last month unveiled its first family of stackable 10/100 Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet switches, which are designed to ease the management of complex workgroup networks. The new Catalyst 3500 Series XL switches support new Cisco software that allows network managers to manag
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Street-Smart Tech
In city work, having as much information as possible on the history of criminal activity at a particular address could be a matter of life and death, especially for police officers, building inspectors and other city workers whose jobs involve entering properties uncertain about the risks inside. T
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Remote-comm vendor enters fed market
Anyware Technology Inc. has begun an initiative to bring its secure remotecommunications technology to the federal market, creating a federal business unit and addressing federal standards. Anyware's flagship product, EverLink Suite, is designed to allow users working remotely to transmit Microsof
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Graphics Powerhouses
Last year, most socalled Windows NT workstations were little more than soupedup PCs. They just couldn't hold a candle to Unixclass machines. But what a difference a year makes. Today's NT workstations are screaming graphics performers, running applications created especially to take advantage of
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House bill lets FAA use tax money for new IT
A House committee last month passed a reauthorization bill that would allow the Federal Aviation Administration to use money collected from taxes on passenger tickets and other sources to pay for modernization programs. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee sent to the full House fo
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House panel boosts military IT funding
The House Armed Services Committee last month beefed up funding for key military information technology projects and information security programs, and it passed language that could derail the Army's outsourcing plans for a large program designed to modernize its logistics systems. In its fiscal 20
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NASA employs 3-D images in collaborative clinic
Scientists at two NASA centers and four medical facilities last month demonstrated the possibilities of collaborative medicine, using the Internet to enable doctors and scientists at different sites to view 3D medical images simultaneously. Unlike traditional telemedicine, in which two parties pas
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