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Looking at the big picture
There are times when attention to detail is allimportant. But a lack of attention to fine points, the very thing that kept Marty Wagner from becoming an accomplished engineer, made him a great administrator. An aeronautical engineer by training, Wagner soon discovered that his talents were more su
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Oakland, Alameda welcome Marine high-tech exercise
Just one week after San Francisco rebuffed a Marine Corps proposal to hold a major exercise there, two other cities have agreed to host the Marines' Urban Warrior, which will test the use of information technology to support military operations in a city setting.
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Dell names Buchsbaum head of federal division
SAP America Public Sector Inc. today announced that its SAP R/3 product, training and consulting services are on the General Services Administration's Financial Management Systems Software (FMSS) schedule.
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SAP lands on financial management sked
SAP America Public Sector Inc. today announced that its SAP R/3 product, training and consulting services are on the General Services Administration's Financial Management Systems Software (FMSS) schedule.
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IRS, Intuit offer free e-tax filing to low-income families
The Internal Revenue Service and Intuit Inc. today launched a free tax service for lowincome families to make technology more accessible and to help the IRS reach its goal of having 80 percent of taxpayers filing electronically by 2007.
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NIH angles for $6 million to fund biomedical computing projects
President Clinton's proposed fiscal 2000 budget includes $6 million for the National Institutes of Health to spend on biomedical computing project
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Former DOJ exec joins SAIC
Mark Boster, former deputy assistant attorney general for information resources management at the Justice Department, took a new job this week as a vice president at Science Applications International Corp.
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Qwest nabs one of two Treasury telecom pacts
Qwest Communications International Inc. has won a subcontract it says is worth $1 billion to provide highspeed telecommunications services to the Treasury Department.
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NARA seeks funds for digital archiving
The National Archives and Records Administration has proposed adding $400,000 to its budget to begin developing a system for digital records projects, including archiving federal agencies' e-mail.
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USPS taps CSC for payroll, benefits solutions
The U.S. Postal Service awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a contract potentially worth $198 million to assist the agency with developing information technology solutions for the agency's payroll and benefits operations.
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Link to Learn
Last spring, Lucretia Hoffman became a certified Novell administrator. Now she'll either push on for her Novell engineer certification or switch over and study 'those cool geographic maps,' she said, referring to geographic information systems. Not bad for a young woman who's 17 years old and still
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Army increases stake in battlefield digitization
The Army's fiscal 2000 budget calls for $2.8 billion for its battlefield digitization program, which is designed to connect armored vehicles, helicopters and even individual soldiers on the battlefields of the 21st century using advanced communications and computing technology.
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DOJ requests new resources to fight cyberterrorism
The Justice Department is seeking increased funding for fiscal 2000 to protect government computer systems and to improve its internal information technology operations.
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Marines budget bolsters new IT strategy
The Marine Corps plans to begin funding an initiative to field common computing equipment across the service as part of its fiscal 2000 budget, according to Navy documents released today.
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Raising Tennessee Kids
Tennessee faced a formidable management and technology task two years ago when it decided to consolidate six children's services agencies into one. Perhaps the most basic and overwhelming task was combining its myriad legacy welfare systems into one workable, streamlined solution. So the state's ne
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DOD slashes funding for tech research
Because of ongoing and anticipated operations around the world, the Defense Department will scale back spending on information technology research in fiscal 2000, according to DOD's proposed budget, released today.
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The EDS/Connecticut Marriage
Congratulations are in order for the state of Connecticut and Electronic Data Systems Corp. The two recently announced their intentions to join in corporate matrimony and expressed the hope that their respective families of executives, politicians, citizens, shareholders and beancounters would sup
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Tight NASA budget emphasizes IT
The president's fiscal 2000 budget request calls for $13.5 billion for NASA, marking the sixth year in a row that the space agency's budget had been decreased, down from $13.6 billion for fiscal 1999.
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