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New online auctions buck the old system at BLM
Faced with an increase in the population of wild horses, which cause overgrazing of federal lands, the Bureau of Land Management has turned to the World Wide Web to find homes for the animals. This year, BLM will try to find owners for about 6,000 wild horses and burros that now live on federal lan
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NARA issues draft erecords plan The National Archives and Records Administration plans soon to recommend that agencies begin including electronic records from office automation applications in their recordpreservation plans. According to a summary of the draft report of NARA's Electronic Records
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NARA circulates governmentwide draft records plan
Federal agencies would have until early next year to devise a plan for maintaining, preserving or disposing of their electronic records or at least have a timetable for doing so according to a draft electronic records policy being circulated governmentwide.
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DOD enlists industry help on telemedicine project
Strategic Monitored Services (SMS) Inc. has teamed with Sprint's Government Systems Division and the Defense Department to kick off a 13month pilot to study the viability of using World Wide Webbased telemedicine technology to treat chronically ill patients. The $4.7 million project, which is sch
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Windows 98: A tweak, not a major overhaul
With the release of Windows 98 due June 25, federal information systems managers face a critical question: Is it worth the money and effort to upgrade?
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NASA's fire site sizzles; NPR's page aims to be plain
It is wildfire season again, and NASA has launched a new World Wide Web page designed to bring uptodate information about fires to the public and the scientific community. Point your browser to modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/fire_atlas/fires.html to view satellite and infrared images of the most recent bl
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TimePlex acquisition fills product line gapFCW-MKTT
TimePlex Federal Systems plans to begin offering to federal agencies an Asynchronous Transfer Mode concentrator that the company will sell as a result of its parent company's purchase of Simulation Laboratories Inc., a Defense Department contractor based in Ijamsville, Md. Leaders of TimePlex Inc.
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House forms Y2K task force to work with Senate
Reps. Constance Morella (RMd.) and Steve Horn (RCalif.), both of whom have led the House's investigation into how the federal government is managing Year 2000 fixes, have been appointed to lead a task force that will oversee efforts in the public and private sectors to address the millennium bug.
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GAO: Command and control problems increase B-2A Bomber costs
The General Accounting Office reported last week that deficiencies in the command and control systems used aboard the Air Force's B2A Bomber limit the aircraft's ability to carry out its missions, causing the cost per plane to increase by more than $1.6 billion.
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GAO wraps IRS' Y2K contingency plans
In a report issued June 15, the General Accounting Office said the Internal Revenue Service, like other agencies, needs to develop better contingency plans to guard against the possible failure of its computer systems in 2000.
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NASA taps 7 vendors for multibillion-dollar desktop outsourcing pact
NASA has selected seven vendors for its multibilliondollar governmentwide program for outsourcing desktop hardware, software and management services.
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House moves to head off Y2K-disruption of Social Security payments
A House subcommittee, worried that the Year 2000 problem could disrupt the delivery of about 50 million Social Security retirement and disability payments, plans to study whether to transfer the responsibility of the payments from the Treasury Department to the Social Security Administration.
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U.S. Bank wins DOD purchase card pact
U.S. Bancorp, Minneapolis, today announced that its U.S. Bank International Merchant Purchasing Authorization Card Government Services Division has been selected as the provider of government purchasing cards for the Defense Department.
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DIA taps six firms for intell BPAs
The Defense Intelligence Agency last week awarded blanket purchase agreements to six vendors under a $300 million program that will serve as one of the primary vehicles of information technology services for the Defense intelligence community. DIA tapped Computer Sciences Corp., Litton/PRC Inc. and
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Uncle Sam beefs up debt-collection apparatus
Federal agencies for many years have withheld money from their employees' pay to recover debts owed to them. However, armed with new legislation, agencies are rolling out a larger, governmentwide effort to collect debts. The Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 made changes in agency debtcollec
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Round 2
In the May 4 issue, Federal Computer Week incorrectly reported on the Labor Department's resources to fix computers for the Year 2000 problem. The article should have reported that Year 2000 work done by Labor's Inspector General's Office has been 'limited by resource constraints.' In the same art
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New Federal Grants System to Eliminate Confusion, Bureaucracy For State and Locals
New Federal Grants System to Eliminate Confusion, Bureaucracy For State and Locals
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Intercepts
DISN price hike/desertion? That was the buzz at last week's AFCEA TechNet show, where service and industry officials predicted the agency will need to impose stiff rate increases in fiscal 1999 for users throughout DOD on the agency's premier DISN network. These rate increases stem from accounting
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House panel matches $2.25B Y2K funding
A House Appropriations subcommittee voted June 11 to set aside $2.25 billion in emergency funding for civilian agencies to pay for century date fixes in fiscal 1999. The Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Subcommittee also said agencies that are in danger of not having their computer s
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