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Navy: DOD must balance Y2K preparation, public perception
The Defense Department must be careful to prepare for possible Year 2000 problems while at the same time not alarming the public, a top Navy official said.
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County to track constituent interactions
Fairfax Co., Virginia next week will begin rolling out a new World Wide Webbased software system to allow its Board of Supervisors and Office of the County Executive to better track constituent interactions.
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AT& T Donates $190,000 Toward Pa.'s Y2K Public Outreach Campaign
Pennsylvania officials Tuesday received a down payment on costs associated with the state's Year 2000 public outreach efforts.
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Virginia DOT Times Traffic Signals To Smooth Commutes
Virginia's Department of Transportation Tuesday began retiming stoplights at 40 intersections in the congested Tysons Corner area west of the Washington, D.C., Beltway.
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Canton, Ga., Goes for Virtual Gov System
Expecting a population spike, an Atlanta edge city beefs up its Web presence.
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Agencies lay groundwork for intrusion-detection network
A group of federal agencies has completed the initial model of a governmentwide intrusiondetection network that will provide a common center for response to cyberattacks on agencies.
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Wireless tech discussed in wake of Columbine
Role of wireless tech in Littleton, Colo., emergency response will be taken up this week.
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Procurement reform moving into next phase
Because they often cost so much money to attend, one hesitates to use the expression 'a dime a dozen' to describe them, but certainly one may say that conferences are a staple of Washington life. Rarely, however, does one describe them as 'breathtaking' or 'historic.' Yet I recently attended an ev
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FBI taps five for services
The FBI last week awarded contracts to five small businesses to provide an array of technology services ranging from managing localarea networks to creating mapping software for tracking crime. The contracts, under the FBI's Information Technology Support Program (ITSP), carry an estimated value o
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LOC picks new material for Digital Library
Portraits of pioneers trekking westward and of the country's first AfricanAmerican church are among the collections of 12 institutions recently selected by the Library of Congress to make their historical treasures available on LOC's World Wide Web site. In all, LOC has selected 33 institutions in
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FTS streamlines Web site design
As part of an effort to improve its marketing, the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service last month gave its World Wide Web site a face lift, making it easier for users to locate the information they need about contracts and services. The site, at fts.gsa.gov, is often the fi
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Fedwire Briefs
GSA IT sked sales near $5 billion Sales on the General Services Administration's information technology schedule for fiscal 1999 have reached nearly $4.9 billion through April, according to the Federal Supply Service. Of that business, $1.4 billion went to small, disadvantaged and womanowned busin
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Clinton administration disputes Y2K spending report
The Clinton administration last week denied accusations that some federal agencies have either misspent or not properly tracked hundreds of millions of dollars allocated for Year 2000 fixes. The General Accounting Office released a report last week on how agencies have spent some of the $3.35 billi
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Answering the call at the FAA
Spending 30 years at AT?#038; Amp;T before launching his government career three months ago, Daniel Mehan, chief information officer at the Federal Aviation Administration, knows firsthand what it is like to be in the middle of a major organizational change. The divestiture of AT?#038; Amp;T and the resulting challeng
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Intercepts
COMPOUNDING CONFUSION. The Army has selected the unbelievably userunfriendly Cecom Acquisition Center World Wide Web page as its front end to handle 'complex' bids for all Army procurements, from tanks to helicopters, according to Kevin Carroll of the Program Executive Office Standard Army Managem
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CIO panel preps fed 'white pages'
The CIO Council is planning to build an online government 'white pages' directory, a firstofitskind service that would make it easy for government employees and the general public to find the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and locations of all federal workers. The directory also woul
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Army accelerates radio deployment
The Army has speeded up delivery of hightech aircrew survival radios to units operating in the European theater, following several modifications to address mechanical and design problems. A spokeswoman for the Army CommunicationsElectronics Command (Cecom), Fort Monmouth, N.J., said the Tobyhanna
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Unix servers: Mainframe redux
In computing, the pendulum has swung between the poles of centralized mainframe environments and distributed client/server computing. Right now, it is swinging back toward a centralized environment. Urged on by costofownership and personnel issues, some agencies, such as the Defense Information S
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FTS 2001 transition takes center stage
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Not surprisingly, much of the discussion at the General Services Administration Federal Technology Service Network Services Conference '99 held here last week focused on the transition from the FTS 2000 longdistance telecommunications network to its successor, FTS 2001. Hundred
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