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A new path for mainframe access
These Webtohost products, everincreasing in number, make it possible to provide access without the laborintensive process of porting mainframe applications to the Web. The new products typically provide a browserbased interface, which users from any platform can use, and server software that s
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FBI defends user fee to support computerized background checks
The FBI today defended its proposal to levy a user fee to support the operation of a congressionally mandated system that will instantly run background checks on would-be gun buyers.
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Protest delays GSA's N.Y. telecom buy
The pace and intensity of cyberattacks against Defense Department computers and networks has increased so much that the Pentagon now considers itself continually at war.
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Overworked agencies not complying with EFOIA
Officials from federal agencies told members of Congress yesterday that huge backlogs of processing paper documents have prevented them from complying with a law that requires agencies to disseminate more information electronically.
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GAO says agency systems headed for Y2K breakdown
Federal agencies now stand to not have many of their computer systems fixed in time for the new millennium, the General Accounting Office told Congress today.
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Report: Agencies ignore security standard, go commercial
Fourteen civilian agencies are using a commercial security technology that is not allowed under federal standards for encryption and digital signatures, according to a report released today by the company that designed the technology.
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GTSI adds seat management to NIH ECS II
Government Technology Services Inc. today announced that it would add socalled seat management services to its National Institutes of Health's Electronic Computer Store II contract.
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OMB: List outsource possibilities
An OMB official told industry representatives that he plans to ask members of the President's Management Council to develop a list of duties performed by government that might be outsourced to the private sector
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Retired programmers lured back by Y2K work
When Thomas Copfler retired from his job as a computer specialist with the National Finance Center (NFC) in New Orleans six months ago, he planned to build a house on 10 acres of land that he had bought in Amite City, La., and to grow blueberries and day lilies.
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Fedwire
The General Services Administration last week told vendors that it will issue a solicitation for the Financial Management Systems Software schedule on or about June 19. It said GSA will conduct an openseason procurement under which vendors of mainframe, minicomputer and PCbased financial management systems will be allowed to add their products to the schedule.
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GSA sets its sights on Web-based employee IT training
The General Services Administration is planning a World Wide Webbased information technology training program for agency employees that may eventually be opened up to other agencies, according to Shereen Remez, GSA's chief information officer.
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Spectrum sale threatens key comm network
The mandated sale of federal radio frequencies has clouded the future of a key communications system in Hawaii used by federal, state and local agencies as well as the boating public.
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Citizen-centered services are key to government reform
The public thinks the federal government needs to perform more like the private sector
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A new class of notebooks: Semi-rugged and streetwise
While the military greatly pioneered uses for small, durable computers that could be deployed in inhospitable conditions, some of the technologies used in those ruggedized battlefield computers are finding their way into notebooks for more traditional mobile users.
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Intercepts
Due to the inexorable ticking of the millennium clock, the Pentagon would prefer not to submit monthly Year 2000 progress reports to either the Office of Management and Budget or Capitol Hill, Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last week.
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Michael Yoemans champions BPR activities at Pentagon
With the Defense Department undergoing major changes at its highest levels, Michael Yoemans, one of the Pentagon's lead advocates for business processing reengineering (BPR), keeps in mind that change rarely happens easily or quickly.
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Confusion surrounds timeliness of filing for disability retirement
Final regulations issued by the Office of Personnel Management to establish uniformity in the application procedures for disability retirement under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) may create confusion as to whether applicants have filed for benefits within the prescribed amount of time.
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U.S. in never-ending war in cyberspace
The pace and intensity of cyberattacks against Defense Department computers and networks has increased so much that the Pentagon now considers itself continually at war.
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House adds $1.6 billion to DOD Y2K funding
The House Appropriations Committee pumped an extra $1.6 billion in emergency funding into the Defense Department's efforts to fix the Year 2000 problem in its thousands of computer systems and to enhance computer security.
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