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BDM's Stottlemyer joins BTG
Todd A. Stottlemyer has joined systems integrator BTG Inc. as senior vice president and director of corporate development, the company announced today.
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Lack of Y2K progress threatens Labor benefits programs
The Labor Department's benefits programs are at risk because resource problems may hinder the department's efforts to fix computers for the Year 2000 problem, the inspector general said today.
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NIH launches purchasing software that is more than a catalog
The National Institutes of Health plans to unveil new electronic purchasing software today that will allow customers to order products and services from its governmentwide indefinitedelivery, indefinitequantity contracts using a World Wide Web browser. The software, called Procurement Vehicle Man
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Panel rejects vendors' requests for guidance
A Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) committee overseeing technology has rejected a request by industry vendors to change the standard contract language defining Year 2000 compliance, despite complaints of unfair or inconsistent interpretations by agencies. The language, incorporated in the FAR l
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Watchdog group slams agencies' lack of EFOIA compliance
OMB Watch, an organization that monitors government regulation, said today that federal agencies have been overwhelmingly inadequate'' in complying with laws that require them to provide the public with access to electronic information.
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Sun wins $500M USPS deal
The U.S. Postal Service recently awarded its largest single contract ever for Unix equipment to Sun Microsystems Inc. in a deal that could be worth as much as $500 million. Under the nineyear Scaleable Midrange Computer contract, Sun will provide its full range of Unix servers and associated softw
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New Intel BX chipsets scream on benchmarks
Intel Corp. last week unveiled the longawaited 440BX chipset and the fastest Pentium II processors to date. The new processors run at speeds of 350 MHz and 400 MHz and take advantage of the new chipset's support for a 100 MHz internal system bus, which significantly boosts overall performance. The
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App development tools ease move to the Web
While client/server computing has dramatically improved the productivity of application development in most organizations, the Internet is providing the wideopen network needed to deploy those applications to a wider audience.
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Retirement option would need IT
A CONGRESSIONAL PROPOSAL TO RESCUE THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM BY PERMITTING WORKERS TO INVEST PART OF THEIR PAYROLL TAXES IN PRIVATE RETIREMENT PLANS MAY SAVE THE BENEFITS PROGRAM, BUT IT WOULD REQUIRE THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION TO INVEST HEAVILY IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS TO TRACK
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DOD taps 7 vendors for integration effort
The Defense Department last week awarded contracts to seven vendors for a $2.5 billion program to build the nextgeneration military medical information system. The program the Defense Medical Information System/Systems Integration, Design, Development, Operations and Maintenance Services (D/SIDD
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Intercepts
* Defense duo does the valley. My remote unit reported that John Hamre, deputy secretary of Defense, and Art Money, the designee for the assistant secretary of Defense Info Ops job, spent last week having highlevel powwows in Silicon Valley, including visits to executives at HP and a session with
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Vice President Hails Private-Sector Internet2 Donations
Vice President Hails Private Sector Internet2 Donations
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Safer Skies takes flight through IT
The Federal Aviation Administration's safety initiative announced last week aims to reduce the number of fatal aviation accidents fivefold in the next 10 years by relying heavily on new technology. Under the socalled Safer Skies initiative, the FAA will take steps to prevent engine failures and so
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Industry Watch
Boeing adds vendor to NASA contract bid team Boeing Co. announced last week that DaimlerBenz Aerospace (DASA) has signed an agreement to provide technical support to Boeing's pursuit of NASA's $5 billion Consolidated Space Operations Contract. Rick Stephens, the Boeing Reusable Space Systems vice
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GAO's Willemssen monitors Y2K pulse
Depending on how your agency's technology programs are faring, Joel Willemssen could be either the most or the least welcome visitor to your office. As the General Accounting Office's director of civil agencies' information systems, Willemssen leads investigations that determine whether an agency's
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Round Two
A source in a story in the April 6 issue incorrectly told FCW that Cisco Systems Inc. does not yet sell Gigabit Ethernet products. The company is shipping and taking orders for the products.
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Roster
Franklin Raines announced last week he will resign May 20 as director of the Office of Management and Budget to become chairman designate of Fannie Mae. President Clinton said he intends to nominate OMB Deputy Director Jack Lew to replace Raines. KerriAnn Jones has been named acting director of th
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Hill looks at agencies' audits
Just two weeks after a scathing, firstofitskind audit of the government's consolidated financial statement revealed billions of dollars in discrepancies, the House last week began a series of hearings to delve into agencies' information mismanagement. The House Government Management, Information
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DOD cautions services to wait on ATM buys
Concerned about incompatible equipment, the Defense Department this month asked the armed services and DOD agencies temporarily to stop buying a highspeed network technology critical to future warfighting strategy pending release of departmentwide standards. This action could slow work on $5 billi
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