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Y2K threatens federal, state welfare programs
A top federal welfare official told Congress today that federal welfare programs that are managed at the state level could be disrupted next year because some states are behind in fixing computers for the Year 2000 problem.
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HCFA chief says feds ready for Y2K, but states may need help
The head of the Health Care Financing Administration today told a House committee that Medicare payments will be disbursed on time next year despite concerns that the agency is behind schedule in making Year 2000 fixes.
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DOD: Y2K failures abroad threaten U.S. security
Signaling a shift in focus on the Year 2000 problem, Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre today told members of Congress that the Defense Department is most concerned about the impact on national security from Year 2000 failures in other countries, particularly Russia.
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Commerce plans mega IT pact for small businesses
The Commerce Department next week plans to release a solicitation worth at least $500 million for a governmentwide information technology support services contract that is set aside exclusively for small businesses.
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OMB to report 79 percent success with Y2K
The Clinton administration next month will report that 79 percent of all federal missioncritical systems are Year 2000compliant, according to John Koskinen, chairman of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion.
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NPR unveils Web site for seniors
he Clinton administration today unveiled a new World Wide Web site that senior citizens will be able to use to conduct business online with the federal governme
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DOD asks Congress to save more radio frequencies for military
The Defense Department's chief information officer and top brass today implored Congress to pass new legislation to rein in the commercial use and sale of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum and warned that the lack of a national spectrum strategy could affect the military's ability to operate effectively in the 21st century.
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USPS can't promise mail delivery won't encounter Y2K bugs
The U.S. Postal Service's top technology officer told a House panel today that he could not promise that the agency will not encounter Year 2000 problems in its computer systems that would disrupt mail delivery next year.
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Army awards PC-3
In a move to provide the latest information technology to its users, the Army today tagged two vendors for a $300 million deal covering PCs, peripherals, office automation software and installation services.
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Pentium III offers significant gains in speed
The new Pentium III from Intel Corp. offers users an impressive increase in speed over the Pentium II, especially with multimedia applications that take advantage of the processor's new instruction sets, the FCW Test Center has found.
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NASA may set standard for Web business
A World Wide Webbased procurement system designed and used by NASA soon may become the single point of entry for information on governmentwide contracting opportunities, according to a report by the General Accounting Office.
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VBA benefits from tech consortium know-how
The Veterans Benefits Administration, which handles close to 1 billion pages of documents annually, late last year began a pilot project designed to steer the agency toward paperless claims processing.
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Library puts history online
The Library of Congress' National Digital Library last week received a $3.5 million donation from the AT?#038; Amp;T Foundation to put two historical collections online. AT?#038; Amp;T's gift, which is the largest corporate donation to the NDL program, will support the digitization of documents belonging to Alexander
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IRS, CSC taking care to avoid past mistakes
The Internal Revenue Service and Computer Sciences Corp. are expected to unveil details next month on how they will manage a 15year modernization effort to replace the IRS' obsolete computer systems. Top managers from the IRS and CSC recently met for a fiveday, gettingtoknowyou planning sessio
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SBA issues draft rules to curb bundling
The Small Business Administration has proposed regulations to slow agencies' practice of combining small, individual contracts into one large contract, a increasingly common strategy in the postprocurement reform era of large government contracts. SBA announced last month that it wants to add its
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Milking CIO role for success
Growing up on a dairy farm in the Midwest taught Roger Baker, the chief information officer at the Commerce Department, a thing or two about hard work. 'When you wake up at four in the morning and it's January and it's 20 below zero outside and you're going to be working for the next four hours bef
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PeopleSoft, SAP approved for financial sked
Two major players in the enterprise business application arena are now offering their financials packages through the General Services Administration's mandatory Financial Management System Software schedule. GSA added the products from PeopleSoft Inc. and SAP America Public Sector Inc. to the Fede
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VBA taps two for training support
The Veterans Benefits Administration has awarded blanket purchase agreements to Computer Sciences Corp. and Interactive Media Corp. to support its information technologybased training programs, a Department of Veterans Affairs official said this week.
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