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Bill would double budget to fight Internet child pornography
A bill introduced in the House yesterday would double the Customs Service's budget for combating child pornography on the Internet.
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Congressmen seek funds to put CRS reports online
Two congressmen today requested funding for an initiative to give the public online access to the highly soughtafter reports generated by the public policy research arm of Congress.
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ITSP goes global
The Air Force has significantly broadened the potential customer base for its $750 million Information Technology Services Program (ITSP) by opening it up to military agencies in Europe, Canada and Japan, according to program documents released this week.
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Centcom to hold high-tech disaster relief exercise
The Defense Department's Central Command, which oversees U.S. defense and security interests in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, plans to hold in May a major computerbased disaster relief effort in the Republic of Kazakhstan, one of five Southeast Asia countries recently added to the command's area of responsibility.
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Navy forecasters bring local perspective to Persian Gulf
The Navy weather forecasters supporting U.S. flight operations over Iraq have discovered it really helps to have a highpowered, quadprocessor computer to tell them quickly which way the wind blows.
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OMB readies agencies for e-commerce requirements
The Office of Management and Budget plans to issue within a month draft guidelines for how agencies should comply with a law that requires the federal government to make all transactions electronic in less than five years.
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GSA urges feds to plan IT buys
Federal agencies should develop policies that push them to plan more carefully how they will buy information technology before they make the transaction, according to a white paper released last week by the General Services Administration's Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP).
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AT& T donates millions for National Digital Library
The Library of Congress' National Digital Library will receive a $3.5 million donation tomorrow from the AT?#038; T Foundation to place two of the library's historical collections online.
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17 High-risk Agencies
The Year 2000 problem and information security practices leave the federal government susceptible to fraud, waste and abuse, according to a series of reports the General Accounting Office released last month.
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ACS to run GSA solutions center
The General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service last month awarded ACS Government Solutions Group Inc. an $87 million contract for the creation of a Systems Development Center to provide information technology solutions to PBS offices across the country.
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Navy officer in Gulf communicates with family via the Web
Advanced information technology not only gives sailors on the USS Belleau Wood a hightech advantage in one of the world's hot spots, it also offers a lowcost medium to keep in touch with family in the United States.
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CSC wins $21 million engineering pact
Computer Sciences Corp. will provide a wide range of software engineering and support services to six Defense Department logistics centers under a $21 million contract designed to sustain a DOD logistics control and distribution system, the company announced last week.
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FTS 2001 caveat emptor
With the recent FTS 2001 awards to Sprint and MCI WorldCom for longdistance service, agencies may rejoice at the potential for substantial savings in their longdistance bills. The two companies bid aggressively against AT?#038; Amp;T and promise savings of about 60 percent for standard voice calls beyond t
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MCI rings up $1B+ telecom pact
MCI WorldCom has captured a potential billiondollarplus contract to supply telecommunications products and services to U.S. troops worldwide, according to a source familiar with the program. Under the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) Pay Phone program, MCI will provide pay phones, call
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Weather Service modernization lagging
The General Accounting Office reported last month that the National Weather Service's Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System is not scheduled for deployment until June, and then with less than full functionality.
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SGI fashions plan for Intel-based servers
Just two weeks after the inauguration of its first line of Windows NTbased workstations, Silicon Graphics Inc. last week laid out a broad new product strategy that calls for a new server line supporting Windows NT and Linux. Known for its dominance in the highend Unix workstation and server marke
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Lack of counsel hurts employees
Anyone who has ever seen 'Dragnet' on TV knows that even the lowliest criminal is entitled to a courtappointed attorney. Unfortunately, federal employees who cannot afford attorneys are on their own when it comes to fighting for their rights. The results can be rough on a federal worker who doesn'
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VA needs more data
A lack of data on how well its services are working remains a top management challenge at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the General Accounting Office reported last month.
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Letters to the Editor
Defending EFT After reading the editorial 'Little angst over missed deadline' [FCW, Jan. 11], I felt compelled to respond to some of its assertions. The editorial states that there has been a 'casual attitude' about the electronic funds transfer initiative. From Day One of our efforts to implement
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