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Three feds round up management awards
At the General Services Administration's Roundup '99 being held here, the cadre of trained project managers in government selected three of their number for special performance awards.
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New York education board seals training deal
New York City's Board of Education recently sealed a deal with Enterprise Training Solutions (www.enterprisetraining.com) for training products to teach city education administrators and faculty how to use the full spectrum of Microsoft Corp. Office desktop software products.
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Army to outsource two major software centers; 500 jobs at risk
The Army has signed a waiver clearing the way for the privatization of two government software development centers without having to conduct a public/private competition for the work, putting up to 500 government jobs at risk, a spokesperson for the Army Materiel Command confirmed today.
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Ohio residents try electronic returns
More than 1 million Ohio residents filed tax returns this year by phone or computer, according to the state's Department of Taxatio
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Jesse Ventura and the Politics of IT
There's a technology lesson behind the success of Jesse Ventura, Utah state Senate Minority Leader Scott Howell (D) said at the Intergovernmental Technology Conference here.
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Internet Tax Fight Settled, Local Gov Reps Drop Suit
The National Association of Counties and the U.S. Conference of Mayors announced yesterday that they will drop litigation pending against a new congressional advisor
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NASIRE Retains Mid-Year Conference Model
The National Association of State Information Resource Executives will continue its conference format of gathering state chief information officers in the spring as well as in the fall for association meetings.
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Cities, Counties Prep for Satellite Broadcast
The National League of Cities on April 29 will host a satellite broadcast to educate city and county officials about how they can use the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to attract new business and develop a more skilled work force. The broadcast, held in conjunction with the National Association of Counties, will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (EDT). For more information about the broadcast, visit www.nlc.org.
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HCFA, GAO square off over Y2K
A top administrator at the Health Care Financing Administration today told two House subcommittees that she is relatively optimistic that the Medicare provider payment systems will be free of Year 2000 computer failures, but she cannot be so sure about medical devices.
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Michigan Saves More By Offering Less
Electronic Data Systems Corp. announced recently that it saved Michigan almost $4 million by narrowing state employees' choice of PCs to a single desktop and a single laptop.
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FAA comm slashed
Telecommunications managers at the Federal Aviation Administration are scrambling to cut $82 million from their fiscal 1999 budget despite criticism that the cuts cannot be made without an impact on critical services to make up for a funding shortfall largely brought on by a pay raise for air t
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Bridging the Gulf, an FCW special report
Special report intro: The Persian Gulf provided lessons about bandwidth and information management
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FBI gets ISI plan to Congress
As required by Congress, the FBI this month submitted to Capitol Hill appropriators a plan to develop a system that agents will use to share evidence and information on crimes in hopes of solving cases faster. The plan lays out how the FBI will pull off its multimilliondollar Information Sharing I
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DOT chooses MCI for FTS 2001
The Transportation Department last week announced that it had selected MCI WorldCom to provide voice, data and Internet services through its FTS 2001 contract with the General Services Administration. An MCI spokesman estimated the award's value at up to $160 million over the eight years of the con
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Fedwire Briefs
Report: New cyberterrorism coming Terrorist groups of the future will rely increasingly on advanced communications and network technologies to carry out new kinds of coordinated cyberattacks, according to a report released this month by Rand Corp. According to 'The New Terrorism,' a study that res
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FTS considers adding ERP services program
In an effort to expand its range of services, the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service is close to launching a program to provide information technology products and services to agencies looking to install enterprise resource planning systems to automate financial, human res
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IRS wants up-front cash for Prime
A top information technology official at the Internal Revenue Service last week warned that if Congress does not advance it $325 million, the tax agency's highprofile modernization effort could be delayed. During a recent hearing, the IRS asked members of the House Ways and Means Committee to supp
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U.S. Central Command battles for bandwidth
Faced with the challenge of protecting American interests in one of the most turbulent regions of the world, Central Command is building a new warfighting strategy for the 21st century
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Intercepts
READY FOR KOSOVO. Government Technology Services Inc. has stockpiled Panasonic rugged laptop computers in case the Army asks it to provide laptops for forces deployed in Kosovo. Joel Lipkin, business development poohbah at GTSI, said, 'We've taken a stocking position in rugged computers so we coul
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