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Georgia Network Caters to Kids
When schools close for the summer, hungry children are in particular danger of slipping through the public safety net. Communities often must redouble their efforts to find and feed children who receive free or reducedprice meals through the public school system but have no guarantees during the s
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Spacecom upgrades for the future
The U.S. Space Command is planning a massive $1.8 billion upgrade project for the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, Colorado Springs, Colo., that will lay the systems integration groundwork for a future national missile defense system. Industry sources expect the command to issue a solicitation
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The XML factor
A new World Wide Web tool has emerged that promises to revolutionize the way federal agencies do electronic commerce while protecting investments in such technologies as electronic data interchange (EDI). Extensible Markup Language is a way of defining the content of a document, similar to the way
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Hill to study DOD buying
A senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee plans to investigate additional acquisition reform initiatives as part of this year's budget process to address the failure of the Defense Department's procurement system to adequately support airmen operating on the front lines in Iraq and Kos
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New device wipes CD-ROMs clean of data
What looks like a bomb, sounds like a coffee grinder and can destroy a compact disc's contents in 40 seconds? A new device, called the DXCDe, which pulverizes the data layer on CDROM and CDRecordable discs so that it cannot be reconstructed, even with an electron microscope and a supercomputer.
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Agencies fight off 'Melissa' macro virus
Federal agencies last week found themselves doing battle with a wildly proliferating computer virus dubbed 'Melissa' that even managed to make its way on board a Navy ship. However, thanks in part to timely alerts and contingency planning, agencies managed to contain the damage. The Melissa macro v
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FormFlow 99 streamlines form management
Paper is out. Electronic forms are in. Thanks to a convergence of technologies as well as cost concerns, agencies are converting forms from paper to pixels. And as they move to electronic forms, agencies more often are streamlining procurement and other business processes by connecting applications
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NIH readies services contract follow-on
The National Institutes of Health last week confirmed that it will recompete its Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners (CIOSP) contracts, with a plan to award new pacts before the current ones expire in August 2001. Leamon Lee, NIH's associate director for administration, said he wants a
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USDA takes first step toward integrated net
The Agriculture Department last month released a draft statement of work for a program to migrate the department to a single telecommunications network. The program is expected to reduce the agency's telecommunications costs and improve network performance. The Telecommunications Enterprise Network
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Software targets help desks with diverse users
Network Associates Inc. last week released its Magic Total Service Desk, a browserbased servicesupport suite that allows a single help desk to service multiple departments within an organization. Magic TSD builds on Network Associates' McAfee ServiceDesk and Magic Solutions Inc.'s SupportMagic he
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FAA reports it is near Y2K compliance
The Federal Aviation Administration today said it has fixed and tested all of its systems in need of repair for Year 2000 compliance and is nearly finished installing the fixed systems.
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States Shop for OBI Solutions
State and local government agencies that have taken the first steps toward Internetbased procurement know that even basic electronic commerce applications have the potential to cut bid times, lower costs and improve interagency cooperation. Massachusetts, for one, claims it can lower its transacti
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HP solution serves small biz
HewlettPackard Co. last week released a new server designed to bring full backup and recovery technology to small and midsize businesses and government offices. The new HP NetServer E 60, which supports up to two Intel Corp. Pentium II or Pentium III processors, is perfectly suited for government
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OFPP may review AF buying strategy
In reaction to a letter sent from two industry advisory groups, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy may review an Air Force decision to use an independent survey as the basis for selecting vendors to bid on blanket purchase agreements. In February, the Air Force's Standard Systems Group (SSG)
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Marketplace
Linux Offers LowCost Alternative to UnixorWindowsNT Dilemma State and local government managers may be catching on to the advantages of Linux, a opensource operating system that caught fire in 1999 as an inexpensive way for technology managers to broaden their selection of operating systems be
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Dual Pentium IIs Pack Power into Servers
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk And Chip Pettirossi If you are looking for a PC server with plenty of horsepower and storage space, a 450 MHz Intel Corp. Pentium II dualprocessor system may be the answer. This class of workgroup servers is designed for file storage and data safety. However, the dual
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USIA agency spreads Kosovo news abroad
The World Wide Web's leading news sources, such as the online versions of the major newspapers and CNN, provide a deluge of articles about the crisis in Kosovo. A number of Defense Department sites also provide information on certain aspects of operations. But those sites are not the only news sour
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NEC adds fingerprint solution to GSA sked
NEC Technologies Inc. recently added its fingerprintbased network security solution to its General Services Administration schedule, positioning the product as an alternative to passwordbased solutions. The product, known as TouchPass, verifies the identity of someone logging onto a network by ch
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DISA selects Motorola for satellite comm
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Motorola Inc. a $219 million contract to supply satellite communications products and services throughout the Defense Department. Under the threeyear contract, Motorola will provide mobile phones, pagers and other communications services operating
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