Digital Government
Cost-analysis software wins fed business
Fueled by the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act and dwindling budgets, several federal agencies have begun to use activitybased, costmanagement software from Atlantabased Armstrong Laing Inc. to display the true costs of services. The Treasury Department, the Patent and
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Lotus Notes update proves solid
Lotus Development Corp.'s latest version of its Notes client and Domino server groupware platform, announced last week, offers significant improvements in openness and modularity, and it features a new browser-like interface.
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Koskinen: Feds OK on Y2K
Despite concerns that the Year 2000 computer bug could bring down some federal government computer systems, President Clinton's Year 2000 czar last week told Congress that he is confident all missioncritical systems will be ready for the new millennium.
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BLM site earns kudos
A team from the Bureau of Land Management last week received Vice President Al Gore's Hammer Award for developing a World Wide Web site that makes land records easily accessible by genealogists and legal researchers. The Web site, www.glorecords.blm.gov, hosts an online database of 'land patents,'
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Storage dilemma looms
San Francisco this week slammed the door on a Marine Corps proposal to use neighboring national parklands as the site for an major military exercise designed to test cuttingedge information technologies in an urban environment.
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Intercepts
DEGEEKING. I have my famed Interceptor mobile unit in San Diego this week for the West '99 conference sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and the Naval Institute, where the hot buzz is the Navywide intranet, not the Naval Virtual Intranet. The Navy's Spawar Com
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Labor takes step toward paperless benefits filing
The Labor Department recently awarded $6 million contracts to two vendors hired in a pilot program by the agency to develop a computer system that would allow employers to file their benefit plans electronically. In September, Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration division will decide
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San Francisco says no to Marines' high-tech exercise
San Francisco this week slammed the door on a Marine Corps proposal to use neighboring national parklands as the site for an major military exercise designed to test cuttingedge information technologies in an urban environment.
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Navy intranet stakes raised
The Navy's top officer last week raised the stakes in the service's pursuit to build an intranet to link half a million Navy users around the world by 2001.
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Webmaster training crucial
Over the past several years, the World Wide Web has evolved from a hightech backwater to an important venue through which government agencies can deliver services to the public.
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White House proposes big hike in IT research funding for 2000
Six federal agencies would share a $366 million boost in funding for information technology research next year under the Clinton administration's proposed fiscal 2000 budget.
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CIAO chief charges against cyberthreats
Jeffrey Hunker always has been fascinated with the gray areas where disciplines and fields of knowledge intersect. His career has been anchored by work in business and technology, but he also is an avid photographer an intersection of interests molded perhaps by his father, a nuclear physicist,
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Fedwire Briefs
Treasury picks Sprint for telecom The Treasury Department late last week selected Sprint as its vendor on the FTS 2001 longdistance telecommunications contract. A company spokesman said Treasury represents the first 'major' agency to sign on to its FTS 2001 contract, awarded by the General Service
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Feds work on student online service
Federal agencies last week began working with college officials to design a World Wide Webbased program that would provide college students with a host of government services, including financial aid services and tax filing.
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Accommodations for injured feds are limited
A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit shows that federal employees who were hurt on the job and return to work sometimes have to settle for a job that may not be to their liking. The case involved Marjorie Meester, a longterm employee of the U.S. Postal Service who dev
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Ruggedized notebook packs power
If you need a notebook that can take a licking and keep on ticking, consider Panasonic Personal Computer Co.'s Toughbook 27.
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Clinton calls for $1.4 billion to secure key systems
The president's fiscal 2000 budget request will include $1.4 billion for protection of the banking, electrical and other critical systems and for computer security, a 40 percent increase in the two budget years since the president created the Critical Infrastructure Protection Commission.
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DOD database stifles disclosure on animal research
The Defense Department is not providing adequate public disclosure of information in its database for tracking past and ongoing biomedical experiments on animals, according to a General Accounting Office report.
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