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Hurricane prompts FEMA network upgrade
As Hurricane Bonnie pounded the North Carolina coast late last month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's World Wide Web site received nearly 2.5 million hits a day almost 10 times greater than regular daily activity. When the number of daily hits temporarily caused the site to crash, FEMA
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INS cancels IV&V portion of IS development program
The Immigration and Naturalization Service has canceled a key portion of a huge program for continuing the development of the agency's information systems including systems border agents use to verify aliens' identities and systems INS workers use to process information on citizenship candidates.
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CDW opens government office CDW Computer Centers Inc. last week announced a new subsidiary devoted to the government market, CDW Government Inc. William Shafley has been named as vice president of sales. CDWG's national sales office will be headquartered in Chantilly, Va., and will include a field
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Horn to release Y2K report cards Rep. Stephen Horn (RCalif.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology, this week will release grades to evaluate the federal government's progress toward solving the Year 2000 problem. Horn has graded agencies based on
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OAO ranked top ODIN bidder
While NASA awarded contracts to all seven bidders in the recent Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN) contract, OAO Corp. outpaced the other vendors in all the main categories analyzed in the competition, according to a recently released sourceselection document. NASA officials briefly di
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Getting Ready for NCIC 2000
The future of computerized law enforcement tools sits on Police Chief Frank Sleeter's desk.
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Apple Debuts iMac
With so many of the nation's kindergarten through 12th grade schools and many colleges holding a large installed base of Macintosh technology, Apple Computer Inc. is hoping to score big among school administrators with its new iMac desktop computer.
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NSDI: What's in It for You?
How should state and local governments best participate in the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)?
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Putting Educational Technology to the Test
Earlier this summer, Jack Christie, director of Texas' State Board of Education, hosted a technology summit meeting at which a proposal was discussed to exchange textbooks for laptop computers in the state's kindergarten through 12thgrade classrooms.
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DOD benefit-check system hits Europe
Last month, in an effort to cut down on fraud, the Defense Department in Europe finished rolling out an upgrade of the systems it uses in the United States to track service records as well as health and other benefits for millions of service members worldwide. DOD views the Realtime Automated Perso
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FEC wants electronic campaign data
With the 1998 election season about to gear up fully after Labor Day, the Federal Election Commission released a request for proposals this month to develop partnerships with software companies to encourage the electronic filing of campaign fundraising and spending reports. According to the RFP, t
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Census RFP calls for phone-in program to support 2000 count
The Census Bureau this month released a final request for proposals for a $100 million outsourcing program that will provide vital telephone callcenter backup for the Year 2000 decennial census. The Telephone Questionnaire Assistance (TQA) program, which is expected to be awarded in January, will
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Fed info locators must put public before data
OMB Watch, a public interest research group, recently issued a report showing that federal agencies' performance on the Government Information Locator Service is abominable and deplorable. Some major agencies still do not even have a GILS, and others have not updated their GILS entries in a year or
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Sterling's Army pact supports intell
The Army Intelligence and Security Command (Inscom) last week awarded Sterling Software Inc. a $42 million contract for professional and technical services in support of the Intelligence Master Plan, a project that defines future information systems requirements and an investment strategy for Army
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Intel unleashes new PII, Celeron chips
Intel Corp. last week unveiled its 450 MHz Pentium II processor and two lowcost Celeron processors running at speeds of 300A MHz and 333 MHz. Other vendors have responded to these releases with a flood of new server, workstation and desktop products that will be on government procurement vehicles
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Microsoft nears secure milestone Microsoft Corp. has submitted Windows NT 4.0 server and workstation and Windows NT 5.0 server and workstation operating systems to be certified for a federal government standard for securing sensitive but unclassified data. Microsoft is expected to announce shortly
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GSA: New system will check funding shortfalls
A new information management system at the General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service (PBS) should guard against a repeat of a reported shortfall of $847 million in a pool funded by rents that agencies pay to GSA. But the fund may still feel the effects of the shortfall for several
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