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House panel OKs FAA funding plan
A House committee amended and passed a bill yesterday that would reauthorize Federal Aviation Administration modernization programs by using money mainly collected from passenger ticket taxes.
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U.S. Commerce Department Holds 'Human Factors&the Web' Conference
Interested in making your World Wide Web site more appealing to humans? The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology next Thursday will host its fifth conference in a series on Human Factors and the Web.
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States Endorse Digital Signature Bill
The nation's governors should be pushing state agencies to accept electronic signatures and should give state technology officials enough room to experiment with different technologies to eliminate the need for paper signatures on electronic commerce deals, according to a report by the National Governors Association.
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Army taps two for $90M laptop pact
GTSI and Intelligent Decisions Inc. won a contract valued at $90 million to provide the Army with portable computers over the next three years.
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DOE to unveil robot to help repair crumbling Chornobyl reactor
The Energy Department today plans to unveil a robot that was developed using software from NASA's Mars Pathfinder and other technologies invented under federal research grants that will be used to help repair the crumbling Chornobyl nuclear reactor site.
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New Web site to help agencies go electronic
The General Services Administration plans to launch a World Wide Web site that will serve as a onestop shopping site to help agencies migrate to an electronic environment.
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DOD picks Sprint for data services
The Defense Department today announced that it selected Sprint to provide data communications services under the company's FTS 2001 contract with the General Services Administration.
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The White House Kicks Off 'Y2K Community Conversations'
The White House is convinced that Americans want straight talk on the Year 2000, so it has assembled a toolkit aimed at communities struggling to develop public outreach campaigns.
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Blueprint for copyright issues delivered
The U.S. Copyright Office yesterday delivered to Congress a sixmonth study designed to serve as a blueprint for copyright issues that have arisen amid the explosion of state distancelearning programs.
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Americans complacent about Y2K
Americans are becoming complacent about the Year 2000 issue lulled by an orchestrated public relations campaign, said one community organizer testifying before a U.S. Senate hearing yesterday on local and individual preparedness.
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FCC to vote on funding for E-Rate
Members of the Federal Communications Commission tomorrow will vote on next year's funding levels for the ERate program. The program is designed to help wire America's schools and libraries for communications and is funded through federal subsidies.
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Illinois poised for statewide educational network
Illinois Gov. George Ryan (R) is poised to sign legislation recently approved by the state's General Assembly to create a statewide educational network.
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NASA scientists reach North Pole, classrooms
In what may be the ultimate in distance learning, a group of NASA scientists this month concluded a trip to the North Pole, where they used the Internet to send live video feed and chat with students around the world, creating the first Internet link to the remote region. As part of the North Pole
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DOD expands net for ground forces
STUTTGART, Germany In anticipation of using ground forces as either peacekeepers or in a tactical offensive against Serb forces, the Defense Information Systems Agency has started a massive program to expand communications services throughout the European theater. Although the Clinton administrat
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CIA BASHING BEGINS. At last week's roast for CNN talk show host Larry King, James Carville, back from a trip to Israel, said he now knows why Moses and the Israelites wandered the desert for 40 years. 'They were using CIA maps!' he said. Where's NIMA when you need it? NO FREE LUNCH. Alan Paller, di
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Utilities: Cures for what ails you
In an ideal world, your operating system would never crash, would be secure from viruses and hackers and would take care of every possible glitch in the background, from corrupt files to disk defragmentation.
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New York Begins Search for CIO
New York state's Office for Technology today will send out bids to choose a professional recruitment firm to conduct a nationwide search for a new state chief information officer.
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GAO: NASA systems full of holes
Outofdate information security policies have left significant vulnerabilities in NASA's missioncritical systems that could allow unauthorized users to steal, modify or delete important operational data, according to a General Accounting Office report released last week. GAO, working over the pas
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IMSI unveils training tool
Integrated Management Services Inc. (IMSI) has developed an offtheshelf version of a computerbased security training program that already is being used by a number of agencies. The Computer Security Awareness Tool (CSAT) is designed to help agencies make their employees aware of critical informa
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