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IG: DOT data center does not compete
The Transportation Department's inspector general recommends closing the agency's data center within the next two years because it cannot compete with other commercial and federal centers, according to a recently released DOT audit report. Although the Transportation Administrative Service Center (
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SRA lands EPA pact
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday awarded SRA International Inc. a fiveyear, $124 million contract to help it update its business processes and its information systems architecture.
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Bureau of Public Debt to punch digital clock
The Bureau of Public Debt this month expects to close a deal to install a software program for tracking employees' work hours originally developed by another agency. The new electronic timekeeping program, already in place at the Interior Department's U.S. Geological Survey, will replace the bureau
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URBAN ENVY? The Air Force has decided to imitate the Marine Corps' highly touted Urban Warrior exercise, which was held this month, with its own urban warfare exercise next year, to be called the Expeditionary Force Experiment. The Marines and their commandant, Gen. Charles Krulak, garnered a lot o
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Fedwire Briefs
SRA lands EPA contract The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday awarded SRA International Inc. a fiveyear, $124 million contract to help it update its business processes and its information systems architecture. The Information Infrastructure Architecture Support Contract (IIASC) is the fourt
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Old IT risks pilots over Kosovo
Air Force and Navy pilots flying missions over lethal antiaircraft sites in Yugoslavia this month lack advanced technology systems that could better ensure their safety, including a new survival radio for downed air crews that the Pentagon rushed into development. A mix of political decisions, Def
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House panel joins Info Age
Congress, not known as the most technologically adept group, has taken a significant step toward joining the rest of us in the late 20th century. The House Science Committee recently spent $400,000 to install numerous technological widgets in its Rayburn House Office Building meeting room, includin
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Nextel wins GSA pact for wireless
The General Services Administration last week awarded Nextel Communications Inc. a contract potentially worth several hundred million dollars to support wireless communications across the government. Under the contract, Nextel will provide integrated digital cellular and radio services and products
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CIO Council crafts personal-use IT guidelines
The CIO Council this month approved a model policy that allows federal employees limited personal use of government office resources such as phones, the Internet and fax machines. The policy allows federal employees 'limited use of government office equipment for personal needs if the use does not
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NARA issues electronic records guidelines
The National Archives and Records Administration last week issued instructions to agencies for cataloging their email and word processing files. The guidelines, outlined in NARA Bulletin 9904, cover copies of programrelated records that remain on agencies' 'live' email systems, file servers and
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Eucom offers window on its operations
If you want a quick snapshot of deployed U.S. forces engaged in everything from peacekeeping missions to air strikes, check out the home page of the U.S. European Command (www.eucom.mil), whose 13millionmile area of operations extends from Bosnia and Kosovo to the northern nofly zone over Iraq.
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Litronic to acquire Pulsar Data Systems
Security vendor Litronic Inc. is close to completing a deal to acquire federal systems and services provider Pulsar Data Systems Inc., which has been suffering financially because of the government's Year 2000 problems, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Litro
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Industry Watch
Logicon, Provenance team on records management Integrator Logicon Inc. has entered the records management market through an agreement with electronic record keeping software vendor Provenance Systems Inc. The companies plan to pursue federal business jointly, with Logicon providing installation, s
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Cut health costs through outsourcing
Nothing seems to raise our national blood pressure faster than ballooning health care costs. We thought managed care, health maintenance organizations and insurers' strict costcontainment policies would stem the increases, but a new Department of Health and Human Services report says those measure
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Roster Change
Phyllis Fong was confirmed by the Senate this month as the inspector general of the Small Business Administration. Fong currently serves as the SBA's assistant inspector general for management and legal counsel. Linda Bilmes is serving as acting chief financial officer and assistant secretary for a
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GTSI, Win nab tdA-3
The Internal Revenue Service late Friday awarded the remaining pacts of the Treasury Department's program for procuring software, workstations, notebook computers, monitors and printers. Government Technology Services Inc. and Win Laboratories Ltd. each won Treasury Department Acquisition 3 contrac
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NOAA aircraft studies stormy weather
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finished flying a series of hightech missions over the Pacific Ocean earlier this year to collect data that eventually will help scientists build more accurate and timely forecasts and increase their understanding of turbulence. NOAA's Gulfstream
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Supercomputer field opens up
When the Energy Department launches its next competition to build the world's fastest supercomputer, some new vendors will bid for entry into a club that has been dominated by two companies, Silicon Graphics Inc. and IBM Corp. Compaq Computer Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. last week said that they
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6 Bringing WebtoHost Technology Into Focus. Burlington Marriott. Burlington, Mass. (Also to be held April 20 in Washington, D.C.) The seminar is designed to provide information to organizations considering the integration of Webtohost technology into an existing network infrastructure. For more
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