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Intelligent Decisions to resell Netscape products, services
Intelligent Decisions announced today it would begin reselling Netscape Communications Corp. products and consulting services to the federal government via the General Services Administration schedule.
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Government panels tap Guida for security posts
Richard Guida, a civilian Navy executive who has been serving as associate director of the Navy's nuclear propulsion program, has just been named chairman of the federal Public Key Infrastructure steering committee and Government Information Technology Services Board's security champion.
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FBI taps Harris for mobile radios
The FBI this month awarded an estimated $105 million contract to Harris Corp. to supply federal agents with mobile radios so that they can share data such as digital fingerprints and criminal records with one another and with other agencies. The award comes as the FBI and other law enforcement agen
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Managing the intranet mess
Intranets are moving into their next stage of evolution from being publishing conduits for pages of static information to more dynamic and interactive resources. People finally will be able to use intranets to run dynamic applications, not just to read material online. Rather than just posting pr
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Raytheon looks to sell IT pacts
The Air Force Desktop V contract the latest in a decadeold series of contracts that helped propel the Defense Department into the PC age has been put on the block by its prime contractor, which is shopping it to a collection of resellers and manufacturers. Raytheon Corp., which acquired the fe
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SmartDB targets legacy migration
Driven by the growth of client/server systems and the popularity of Internet and intranet environments, federal users are turning to specialized data migration products that automate the process of moving legacy data to new environments. One such tool is SmartDB Workbench by SmartDB Corp., which pr
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Pentagon denies hackers penetrated secret nets
Despite recent claims by an international hacking group that it accessed and obtained classified information from a Defense Department network, DOD officials last week strongly denied that the group penetrated classified networks or obtained classified information. A group calling itself Masters of
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NARA wants agencies to buy records systems
The National Archives and Records Administration plans to recommend that agencies buy electronic recordkeeping systems as part of a new policy detailing how the government should maintain digital documents. Michael Miller, director of the Modern Records Management Program at NARA, said officials de
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Industry Watch
Vividata products added to SEWP II Vividata Inc.'s printing, scanning and faxing solutions for Unix platforms are now being offered by Baltimorebased reseller ECS Technologies Inc. on NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement II contract. PostShop, which Vividata said is widely dep
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Let me introduce you to the next-generation public servant
Despite many recent stories in the press chronicling the government's difficulties in attracting and retaining information technology professionals, my return to teaching has shown me that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Since the beginning of February, I've been teaching one section of a
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Fedwire
Soloway appointment made official The appointment of Stan Soloway as deputy undersecretary of Defense for acquisition reform became official earlier this month. Soloway was nominated to the post in February, succeeding Donna Richbourg, who served as acting deputy undersecretary of Defense for acqui
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Awards
Hughes Defense Communications. A $5.5 million award for miscellaneous communications equipment. Army, CommunicationsElectronics Command Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, N.J. Lockheed Martin Corp. A $1.6 million award for refigurable algorithms for adaptive computing. Air Force Materiel Command,
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Hall goes to Customs from Energy
S.W. Woody'' Hall, the chief information officer with the Energy Department, has accepted a job at the Customs Service as the assistant commissioner for information and technology and the CIO. Hall will replace Edward Kwas, who retired from Customs in January.
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Roster
Ronald McPherson, director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will retire from the government in July. No replacement has been named. Todd Stottlemyer has been named senior vice president and director of corporate development
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A (four) star shines at Army command
Gen. Johnny Wilson, the commander of the Army Materiel Command (AMC), talks about the Army and his 37year career with a passion and intensity that would make a recruiter proud. Wilson has good reason for such passion; he's the only black man to make it all the way from a private to the highest ran
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IBM brings ASCI super online at Livermore
IBM Corp. completed installation earlier this month of a 1,344processor SP supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the company announced last week. The system is an upgrade to one used by the Energy Department's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, which is an effort to bui
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Kodak service spots changes in aerial pics
Eastman Kodak Co. earlier this month unveiled a new service to help federal agencies detect changes in aerial images of landscape that might not be readily visible to the human eye a capability generally associated with Defense and intelligence agencies. The new service, called Clear Change Image
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VA branch rolls out first of 5 telemedicine carts
The New England branch of the Department of Veterans Affairs has developed a compact telemedicine cart that doctors can use to consult with medical specialists, saving patients time and trouble. Many veterans venture across a state or states to consult with specialists such as dermatologists or oph
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Y2K brings new players to market
Seeing federal agencies under growing pressure to correct Year 2000 computer problems, three vendors that traditionally have not sought much government business have launched campaigns to bring their solutions to the federal market.
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