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FAA chooses AT& T exec for CIO
The Federal Aviation Administration has tapped AT?#038; T executive Daniel Mehan as its first chief information officer.
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Y2K czar claims feds will be ready for 2000
President Clinton's Year 2000 czar today told Congress that he is confident that all federal missioncritical systems will be fixed and ready for the new millennium.
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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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Start-up SI International makes first acquisition
SI International Inc., a startup based in Gaithersburg, Md., today announced it purchased Statistica Inc., an information technology contractor with $20 million in annual revenue and 300 employees. The purchase price was not disclosed.
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Navy still has sights set on own intranet
Top Navy officials today continued to push for speedy development of a naval worldwide intranet that would tie together terminals at all naval installations and on deployed ships in one seamless network.
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Consulting firm Jefferson Group to split
The Jefferson Group Inc. consulting firm last week announced it will split to form two companies to better focus on the government relations and business consulting market segments it serves.
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NARA allows deletion of housekeeping files
The National Archives and Records Administration said last month that agencies can delete extra electronic copies of routine housekeeping records provided they have created an official recordkeeping copy.''
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Wang wins $453M NASA network deal
Lockheed Martin Space Operations Co. has awarded Wang Government Services a contract worth $453 million over 10 years to provide widearea network data distribution services to NASA as a subcontractor on the Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC).
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DOD to stage governmentwide Y2K exercises
The Defense Department plans to conduct a series of exercises over the next several months to determine how it can best help other government agencies manage any breakdown in the power grid and other critical systems due to Year 2000related computer problems.
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DOD logistics lacks leadership, panel finds
The Defense Department's logistics programs, which will account for roughly onethird of DOD's fiscal 2000 budget, needs stronger leadership to begin taking full advantage of the technology available in the commercial arena, according to a senior member of the Defense Science Board.
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Hamre asserts DOD will be ready for Y2K
A top Defense Department official said today that DOD will have all of its 2,304 missioncritical computer systems Year 2000 ready by Dec. 31.
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Y2K pushes U.S., Russia to work on warning center for nukes
The Pentagon plans to dispatch a team to Russia next week to work on a shared earlywarning center designed to preclude any accidental launch of missiles brought on by a Year 2000 bug in nuclear command and control systems.
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Transportation taps 25 for next ITOP pact
The Transportation Department today awarded 34 prime contracts to 25 companies under a $10 billion information technology services contract.
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ESC to study outsourcing computer support
The Air Force's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is launching a study to determine whether commercial vendors can provide more costefficient base supply services to ESC and other Air Force units, the service announced today.
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Pentagon: "DOD will be ready for Year 2000"
The Pentagon, criticized for lagging in its effort to fix its computers for the Year 2000 bug, plans to announce at a press briefing tomorrow that it will have missioncritical computer systems ready for the new millennium.
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GSA unveils revolutionary acquisition concept
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service yesterday introduced plans to develop contracts through a new method to fund information technology procurement in which vendors' payment is based on their performance.
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Marines launch "Enterprise" computer buy
The Marine Corps is looking for vendors to meet its worldwide requirements for desktop computers, laptops a
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Executive order focuses on IT in federal training
President Clinton yesterday signed an executive order designed to encourage agencies to use innovative technology to train federal workers.
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