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Agenda
MAY 1999 4 Electronic Filing: The Momentum Builds. Marriott at Metro Center. Washington, D.C. This is the spring meeting of the Council for Electronic Revenue Communication Advancement. Call (703) 6843153. 4 Penetrating the Federal Market as a GSA Schedule Holder. Atlanta Crown Plaza Ravinia Hotel
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Hill backs earthquake systems
The House of Representatives last week passed a bill that allocates more than $200 million in fiscal 2000 for new computer projects to monitor and analyze earthquake activity, including systems that would provide early warnings to help save lives. The Earthquake Hazards Reduction Authorization Act,
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Roster Change
The Industry Advisory Council this month honored three guests at its first annual charity event for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. The honorees were Norm Augustine, chairman emeritus of Lockheed Martin Corp.; David Barram, administrator of the General Services Administration; and Anthony William
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Open season: healthy deals
The Federal Employees Group Life Insurance program's open season began April 24 and will last through June 30. This is a unique opportunity for federal employees to change their government life insurance coverage. The open season is the result of a recently enacted law that changed the program in w
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IntelliSys, GTSI start PC-3 battle
The two companies that hold Army PC3 contracts have kicked off an oldfashioned sales war, racing to open their doors for business and battling on prices. The competition between IntelliSys Technology Corp. and Government Technology Services Inc. should result in 'an excellent deal for the Army; t
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San Bruno, Calif., Launches Web Site
Bearing the dubious distinction as the last city government in the San Francisco Bay area to go online, San Bruno, Calif., this week launched its World Wide Web site at (www.ci.sanbruno.ca.us). What the city lacks in timing it hopes to make up for in collaboration because all city departments will feed content to the site.
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Washington Speeds Move to Integrated Justice
The state of Washington has embarked on a major overhaul of several key systems as it continues its allout effort to integrate state and local criminal justice information sources.
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South Carolina Awards DMV Contract
South Carolina's Department of Public Safety on April 22 awarded to CACI International Inc. a $25 million contract to overhaul the state's Division of Motor Vehicles operations and establish a World Wide Web presence for the state.
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HHS plans adoption Web site
The Department of Health and Human Services expects to launch within two years a World Wide Web site devoted to recruiting parents for children awaiting adoption through public agencies across the nation. HHS' children's bureau plans to debut the site in 2001. It will feature pictures and descripti
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In-transit visibility
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. In 1899, Winston Churchill referred to victory as a 'beautiful, brightcolored flower' and transport as 'the stem without which it could never have blossomed.' One hundred years later, no other military maxim rings as true. As the principal agency responsible for transp
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IT on the high seas
In the newly connected world, information access and information exchange become essential tools in the missions of the warfighters
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Mid-Atlantic States to Offer Personalized Transit Data
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut unveiled at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America conference a regional effort to bring personalized travel data to public transit riders.
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Study warns of a new cyberterrorism called 'netwar'
Terrorist groups of the future will rely increasingly on advanced communications and network technologies to carry out coordinated cyberattacks and to attract sympathizers to their cause, according to a report released last week by Rand Corp.
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Oregon Offers Real-Time Bus Stop Data
Oregonians waiting at bus stops in Portland soon may be able to view realtime projections of bus arrival times under the state's intelligent transportation system (ITS) plan.
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U.S. tests GPS satellites for Y2K compliance
The U.S. Space Command plans to begin today testing the Year 2000 compliance of the Global Positioning System. The test will involve a single satellite and will not interfere with the daytoday operations of GPS users.
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FAA restores funding to test new air traffic control concept
The Federal Aviation Administration has restored $14.8 million in fiscal 1999 funding for a critical program that will move the agency one step closer to a revolutionary concept in air traffic control.
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Internet database accesses patents, trademarks
Commerce Department Secretary William Daley today unveiled an Internet database that will make it easier to access the text and images of 2 million patents and more than 1 million registered and pending trademarks.
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Clinton administration: Governmentwide Y2K testing day unnecessary
The White House today announced that it does not support a bill that would require federal agencies to set aside one day to conduct governmentwide testing of key computer systems to assess their Year 2000-compliance.
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HUD's procurement process improving; more steps suggested
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has made many improvements to its procurement process over the past year, but the agency still needs to take additional steps to improve management, according to an independent report released yesterday.
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