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CIO Council issues strategic plan The federal CIO Council will continue to be guided by the six priorities that council members outlined last year, according to the group's 1999 strategic plan, released late last month. The council's core vision for government is for agencies to use information and
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Boeing IT group on the block
Boeing Corp. quietly has tried to sell Boeing Information Services for at least the past three months, sources inside and outside the company confirmed last week. FCW has learned that Boeing has shopped its federal services business to a number of rival firms, including CACI Inc., Computer Sciences
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CIOs call for secret clearance
The security committee of the CIO Council last month urged all agency chief information officers and deputy CIOs to obtain a toplevel security clearance usually reserved for those working on sensitive military or intelligence programs. The committee believes CIOs and deputy CIOs need these securit
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Web survey software comparison
Information is power. And while e-mail and the World Wide Web have made it possible to distribute information around the globe faster than ever, a new type of software is turning the Internet into a channel for collecting information.
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Skepticism greets GSA small-biz plan
Small and minorityowned businesses are skeptical about the potential of a new policy announced last week by the General Services Administration to boost their federal information technology business as subcontractors. The GSA said that it planned to tap small businesses on large contracts, startin
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Industry Watch
Intel unveils new Celeron chips Intel Corp. last week introduced the next generation of its Celeron processors, which will run at 366 MHz and 400 MHz. Intel first introduced the strippeddown Celeron processor last year to make it possible for PC manufacturers to build lowcost systems for users wh
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SGI debuts NT workstations
Silicon Graphics Inc., one of the industry's best known developers of highend Unixbased visualization systems, this week will introduce its first line of Microsoft Corp. Windows NTbased workstations, which company officials say will raise the bar significantly on desktop computer performance. Th
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NLM revamps Medline for lay audience
Although the National Library of Medicine has always provided information to the public, its resources, including online databases, were designed for medical professionals. Now the agency has developed a World Wide Web site, Medline Plus, that aims to deliver the latest medical research and healt
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OMB's McConnell to move to President's Y2K Council
Bruce McConnell, who has been instrumental in crafting and enforcing information policy at the Office of Management and Budget for more than a decade, this month will move to the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion to work on international Year 2000 issues, according to an administration so
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Navy: GBS back on track
The Navy said it has fixed problems that delayed deployment of a broadband satellite communications system designed to feed hundreds of channels of information to command ships, carrier battle groups and amphibious ready groups constantly on station in potential world hot spots. The delay in deploy
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Roster
Robert Kipke this month joined CritiCom Inc. as vice president of sales. Kipke previously worked as defense programs vice president at AT?#038; T Government Markets.
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Letters to the Editor
Sugarcoating bad news Steven Kelman argues that lowerstatus workers tend to take a negative bias to convince higherstatus people that they are intelligent [FCW, Dec. 7]. While I've no doubt as to its validity, I find just the opposite to be true working for the Army. Under our Project Manager an
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FAA plan will reduce voice congestion in the airwaves
The Federal Aviation Administration detailed on Jan. 6 its plan to replace many routine voice transmissions between controllers and pilots with digital data messages a move designed to increase the number of aircraft that controllers can manage by reducing congestion in the airwaves.
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D.C. group grooms students for IT careers
According to the fiscal 1999 strategic plan for the CIO Council, a key priority for information technology management will be improving the IT skills of the federal work force. The CIO Council joins the chorus of voices telling us that we face a desperate shortage of workers who possess the IT tale
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Air Force adds 27 firms to services program
The Air Force last week awarded blanket purchase agreements to 27 additional vendors under a $750 million information technology services program, which eventually may include a mix of 75 large and small businesses. The latest round of BPAs is part of the threeyear Information Technology Services
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Who to blame for the Y2K problem?
The following question is one I raised at a recent conference: The federal government is spending billions of dollars to fix the Year 2000 problem. The only reason for this problem is the fact that computer programmers routinely truncated the common fourdigit representation of years to a twodigit
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Mazei molds IRS facelift
As we approach the new millennium, one of the most critical jobs at the Internal Revenue Service involves managing a multibilliondollar program that will help the tax agency notorious for its salty customer service and obsolete technology become a friendlier, stateoftheart work place. The
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Primeon delivers Year 2000 audit services
While many vendors have developed tools to help agencies fix their Year 2000 computer problems, one company now offers a service designed to help agencies measure the success of those fixes before heading into fullscale testing. Primeon Inc., a Burlington, Mass., solutions provider, has put togeth
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