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Intercepts
ATM ATTACK. I'm picking up reports of yet another DISA vs. The World turf battle, this one over the agency's desire to install its own ATM switches on Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine bases and stations. This seems a bit redundant because all the services have longrange projects the Army's CUITN
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Boole extends scope, accessibility of Command/Post
Boole & Babbage Inc. has introduced a new version of its Command/Post systems management system that improves the support for management activity at a variety of levels in an organization and broadens the support for other vendors' management tools. With Command/Post 4, the system offers access to
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Gaining perspective on seat management
Every summer it seems one issue crops up and takes the information technology community by storm. A few years ago, discussions centered on the new procurement rules: Were the new rules too radical? Could industry compete effectively under these rules? Would prices increase? Over time, reason prevai
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Fedwire
House passes copyright law The House of Representatives last week passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a bill that, although designed to protect digital copyright, makes illegal the network security testing often used by federal agencies to gauge how safe their networks are from hacker att
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Rivals Look to Seed Technology in State and Local Agencies
Intergraph Corp. and the National Association of Counties have joined forces to help smaller county governments launch their own geographic information systems.
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New Mexico Data 'Framework' Holds Tips for National GIS System
The U.S. Geological Survey's Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is about to choose a new round of state and local governments to join its Framework Demonstration Projects Program, under which local, state and federal agencies will work out datasharing problems
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Council's site offers Y2K info
The President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion this summer unveiled a World Wide Web site that agencies can use to learn more about the Year 2000 problem. The site, at www.y2k.gov/java/index.htm, is updated as information on the Year 2000 problem becomes available. Those interested in how the gove
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Industry balks at Clinton critical protection plan
The Clinton administration took its first step last week to form partnerships with companies and privatesector groups to protect the nation's critical infrastructures from electronic and physical threats, but the effort is already drawing criticism from the telecommunications industry. The Commerc
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Panasonic expands ruggedized line
Panasonic Personal Computer Co. this summer is extending its line of Toughbook ruggedized computers with three new notebooks intended not just for military users but for mainstream users who subject their systems to daily wear and tear. At last November's Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, the company
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Oracle Plays the Child Welfare Market
Oracle Corp., with recent contract awards in Michigan, Ohio and Virginia, now holds a commanding lead in the market for Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) projects, which incorporate data warehousing, financial software and World Wide Webenabled client/server application
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Treasury mulls how to buy phone service
The Treasury Department plans to launch a competition for local dialtone service next year when its Washington, D.C.area telecommunications contract expires, and the agency is studying whether to conduct similar procurements throughout the country. ''We'll be going on some uncharted ground, and w
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Savant adds new tools to diagnostic software
Savant Corp. last week announced the availability of a new release of its visual performance monitoring software for Oracle Corp. database management systems, adding a new set of analysis and problem resolution tools. The Q Diagnostic Center consolidates a view of the entire database environment in
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GAO scolds FAA over Year 2000
The Federal Aviation Administration's ineffective management of information technology has exacerbated problems with computer security and the Year 2000 computer bug, two areas where the agency faces huge and immediate challenges, witnesses testified before a House panel last week. Overcoming these
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Agenda
912 1998 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Radio and Wireless Conference. Sheraton Hotel. Colorado Springs, Colo. Sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, IEEE and the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences. Topics will include systems, active components,
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Industry Watch
Raytheon nabs NASA pact NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week tapped Raytheon STX for a data system development and operation contract with a ceiling of $60 million. This new requirement calls for the contractor to support the development and operation of science data analysis systems for sele
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Federal Bytes
HE SAID IT. Vinton Cerf, known as the father of the Internet because he developed TCP/IP, the computer language that gave birth to the Internet, recently tickled a group of NASA scientists during his speech about plans to build an Internet in space so that future colonies of astronauts could easily
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Defense mulls securing comm with vendors
The Defense Department last week released a request for information for technology that would allow defense contractors and suppliers to encrypt their communications with the department. DOD is interested in using a publickey infrastructure (PKI), which uses digital signature and encryption techni
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INS: Splitting agency would harm info tech
A bill that would remove border control duties from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and place them in a new agency is speeding its way through Congress. But some observers say the bill could undo vital information links the federal government uses to process immigrants. Rep. Hal Rogers (
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Tools for managing the desktop
As federal agencies struggle to gain better control over the desktop computers on their networks, they are increasingly choosing products and services to help give them a global, enterprise view of all systems, down to the desktop level. The trend toward improving desktop systems management has bec
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