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Aerospace Expeditionary Force highlights DOD efforts to support operations with IT
Despite being involved in simultaneous military operations in Iraq, Bosnia, Macedonia and now Yugoslavia, the Department of Defense this week discounted concerns about the high tempo of late and cited the Air Force's new Aerospace Expeditionary Force concept as one of the measures it is taking to lessen future burdens.
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B-2 passes first real-world test
The $2 billion B2 stealth bomber, criticized last year for deficiencies in its onboard command and control systems, flew its first actual combat missions this week, successfully bombing targets in Yugoslavia despite poor weather.
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Updated IT could stem Medicare fraud, abuse
A top investigator at the Health Care Financing Administration today told a House subcommittee that the Medicare program remains vulnerable to fraud, waste and payments of unnecessary benefit payments.
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Two key FAA programs still plagued by problems, IG says
Although the Federal Aviation Administration has made progress in its multibilliondollar modernization effort, two key programs continue to experience problems, the Transportation Department's inspector general told a Senate panel yesterday.
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Connecticut Rep. Questions EDS Deal
Connecticut Speaker of the House Moira Lyons (D) recently sent a laundrylist of questions about the state's billiondollar deal now pending with Electronic Data Systems Corp. Among Lyons' concerns are cost savings, privacy, contractor past performance and payment issues associated with the deal.
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Smaller Communities Weak Link in Y2K Chain
Identifying the nation's smaller communities and local governments as possibly the weakest link in the chain of Year 2000 awareness, President Clinton's Year 2000 czar, John Koskinen, today unveiled plans for a summer campaign to promote awareness at that level.
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Interior joins elite federal Y2K compliant club
The Interior Department announced today that all 90 of its missioncritical systems are Year 2000compliant, several days before the governmentwide Year 2000 deadline.
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GSA taps Nextel for wireless comm
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service yesterday awarded Nextel Communications Inc. a contract, potentially worth several hundred million dollars, to support wireless communications across the government.
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IT key to FBI mission, director tells Senate
FBI Director Louis Freeh told a Senate committee today that investing in technology will be key to fulfilling the agency's mission next year.
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DISA picks three for DISN pact
The Pentagon awarded contracts to AT?#038; T Government Markets, MCI WorldCom and Sprint Communications Co. as part of a $600 million program to provide lowspeed network services throughout the United States.
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Congress considering withholding HUD funds amid reform criticism
Because of persistent information technology management problems at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Congress is considering holding back as much as $227 million the agency has requested for new programs in fiscal 2000.
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DOE preps next ASCI buy
The Energy Department is preparing to issue a request for proposals for a new supercomputer that can calculate 30 trillion floatingpoint operations per second (teraflops), which would be three times more powerful than any system currently being used.
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AF taps 24 for final ITSP awards
The Air Force this month awarded a fourth and final round of 24 blank
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Expert: NIH needs $200M for research
The National Institutes of Health should invest $100 million to buy a stateoftheart supercomputer and another $100 million to develop software and train scientists to use the system for biomedical research, the head of a pharmaceutical company told Congress last week. Frederick Hausheer, a physi
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AT&T's big gamble
Pushed by the loss of several key federal contracts, the last division of AT?#038; Amp;T to operate in a protected competitive environment has entered the roughandtumble world of postreform telecommunications. It's a new world where agencies are free to choose providers, where margins are slim, and losers
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NARA adds history to Digital Classroom
As more schools come online, teachers are searching for ways to use the World Wide Web in the classroom. Last month, the National Archives and Records Administration released its first set of online materials for teaching American history, containing nine lesson plans that use digitized documents t
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Roster
Teresa Sorrenti, director of acquisition operations and electronic commerce at the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service, has been nominated to be vice chairwoman for the United Nations/Economic Commission for Europe member states. The group is the forum for countries in North Am
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Can agencies get credit for trade-ins?
The following topic was raised by a vendor representative: Can government agencies trade in used equipment for credit on new purchases? If so, what rules apply? In general, federal government agencies are authorized to take advantage of the tradein allowances that are offered by many commercial co
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Report: DOD needs cyberattack authority
The Pentagon should consider changes to policies that currently prohibit the Defense Department from mounting a counter cyberattack if its computers are attacked, the National Research Council recommended in a report released today.
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