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Panel: Changes can lure IT labor
The federal government can attract muchneeded information technology professionals by posting more job opportunities electronically and by offering tuition to students in exchange for a work commitment, according to preliminary recommendations by an interagency task force. These and other recommen
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DOD upgrades super tech
The Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (CEWES) late last month announced it had awarded $25 million in contracts to upgrade its supercomputers and to take advantage of some of the newest and most powerful technology available. The upgrades, which also are occurring at other Defens
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SAP looks to improve on recent successes
In the first year after setting up business in the public sector, SAP America Inc. has exceeded its original goals for the market and has set its sights on even more dramatic gains in the year ahead, according to Robert Salvucci, president of SAP America Public Sector and Education Inc., a subsidia
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Anteon to acquire services firm
Anteon Corp. today announced plans to buy Analysis?#038;Technology Inc., an engineering and information technology services company that provides systems engineering and IT services.
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DOD halts small-biz benefits
The Defense Department last month suspended for one year all pricing preferences for small and disadvantaged businesses after the agency reported that it had exceeded its SDB contracting goals for the year. The move is expected to cost small businesses at least $50 million in DOD contracts. DOD fro
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Two packages ease HTML conversion
The World Wide Web is a communications frontier for many agencies, and with it come new challenges. For government Webmasters, moving volumes of documents from office workstations where they reside to the publicly available Web can be like scaling a summit. Newer word processing programs includin
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Federal Bytes
BIG SHOT AT DOJ. You shouldn't tangle with her in court, and it's probably not wise to tangle with her on the court either. We're talking about Janet Reno, of course. Word on the street is that the attorney general plays a mean game of hoops. Actually, the word came not from the street but at a fed
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DOD center test drives Oracle Financials
The Defense Energy Support Center, the agency responsible for providing global fuel energy support to the Defense Department, recently began testing Oracle Corp.'s Financials software as part of an enterprisewide effort to reinvent the agency's business processes. The official use of Oracle Financi
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Gondola trial highlights role of cockpit IT
The highprofile trial of the Marine Corps pilot whose jet clipped a ski lift cable in the Italian Alps has ignited a debate on Capitol Hill about information technology failures in the jet's cockpit that many experts believe played a key role in the accident, which killed 20 people.
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FAA, NASA may work closer on research efforts
Rep. Connie Morella (RMd.), chairwoman of the Technology Subcommittee of the House Science Committee, said today she is considering adding language to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill to better coordinate FAA and NASA research and development efforts.
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FAA aims for June 30 Y2K fix
The Federal Aviation Administration expects to have all of its missioncritical systems Year 2000compliant by June 30 and is now monitoring Year 2000 activity of its international partners and of U.S. airlines and airports, an agency official said today.
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Senate IT specialist moves to Armed Services Committee
A key Senate staffer who oversaw and led federal information technology management and purchasing reforms has accepted a position on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Pentagon details U.S./Russian Y2K center to avoid nuclear exchange
The United States has reached an agreement with Russia to set up a center to ensure that neither nation launches a nuclear attack erroneously if computers controlling the two nations' nuclear weapons malfunction because of Year 2000 date code problems.
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Feds still push toward electronic payments
Almost all federal employees and more than three-quarters of Social Security recipients and veterans get paid electronically by the federal government, a Treasury Department official told Congress today.
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Shopping for Handhelds
If you want computer power on the go, you've got a lot of alternatives that are compact, lightweight and affordable. From palmtops to near notebooks, today's handheld computers meet the needs of most mobile government executives. The term 'handheld" refers to machines that vary dramatically in cos
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This Month's State and Local Government IT Developments
Clinton 2000 Budget Pours Millions into Civic Technology The White House's fiscal 2000 budget underscored several programs that rely heavily on technology spending, with community 'smart growth' programs, hightech crimefighting and education technology programs the clear winners. Clinton proposed
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Tool Scours Network for Y2K Compliance
Cabletron Systems has teamed with Opticom Inc., a developer of network reporting systems, to market a tool that state and local agencies can use to easily determine whether their networks are ready for the century date change. The tool, Y2KView, is the latest module of Manchester, N.H.based Optico
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Florida Supreme Court Weighs IP Videoconferencing
Judges at the Florida Supreme Court in Tampa must regularly travel to satellite offices 60 miles away in Lakeland, Fla., to discuss casework involved in some of the 5,000 appeals that the court examines each year. To cut down on the trips, which require the judges to travel on Florida's busy Inters
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The Next Big Deal
For one San Diego team, the ultimate symbol of success won't be a World Series trophy or a Super Bowl ring. Instead, for San Diego County's information technology 'Tiger Team,' victory will be a 10year contract with a leading IT services firm to economize, modernize and manage the county's IT and
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