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DOD eyes buying, personnel reforms (Part 2)
The Defense Department has begun work on the next generation of procurement reform and is drafting a comprehensive set of new regulations and proposed legislation. The effort would equal the scope of previous major overhauls such as the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act, and many in industry hav
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New Federal Program to Respond to Mass-Destruction Threats
New Federal Program to Respond to MassDestruction Threats
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Transportation readies $10B ITOP follow-on procurement
The Transportation Department released Friday a draft solicitation for a sevenyear, $10 billion multipleaward services contract that will be open to agencies throughout the government. The Information Technology Omnibus ProcurementII contract is a followon to the popular ITOP, a 2yearold cont
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Senate moves to form Year 2000 committee
The Senate last week passed a resolution to form a special committee to oversee how the government and the private sector are dealing with the Year 2000 problem. The committee, which will be called the Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, will study the impact of the Year 2000 pro
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Judge says agencies must follow new policy
A federal judge April 9 ordered the National Archives and Records Administration to require agencies to preserve or dispose of electronic records according to a temporary policy issued last month. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman said the government had ignored his decision last October over
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Oakland Fights Poverty with Network PCs
Janet Patterson, a 30year resident of the Acorn housing development in western Oakland, Calif., has spent a lot of time rallying against drugs and crime in her impoverished waterfront community. As president of the Acorn Residents Council, she admits the complex has been criticized over the years
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NIH reorganizes, refocuses IT offices
The National Institutes of Health has reorganized the way it manages information technology, combining its computer services, telecommunications and policy offices under a newly appointed chief information officer. NIH's Division of Computer Research and Technology (DCRT), the Office of Information
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Roster
Leo, deputy administrator for management at the Agriculture Department's Food and Consumer Service, is on detail until Oct. 1 as team leader of the Administrative Convergence Implementation and Planning Team at the USDA. His task is to merge the three USDA service agencies and their systems into on
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Vehicle-Tracking Program Helps Cops Watch Their Backs
Lawsuits against emergency service agencies for slow or inadequate responses to 911 calls have become a rising concern to public safety agencies.
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DOD eyes buying, personnel reforms (Part 1)
Defense Secretary William Cohen this month notified Congress of actions the Defense Department would take to modernize its acquisition procedures, including proposals to make greater use of technology tools, such as electronic commerce and distance learning. The report also said Cohen would establi
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Rogue transmitter knocks out GPS signals
An errant Air Force transmitter in upstate New York jammed Global Positioning System satellite navigation signals for two weeks earlier this year, with at least one Continental Airlines flight reporting a total loss of GPS signals and a dozen other GPSequipped aircraft filing interference reports,
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Spare-parts problems threaten commercial buying gains
Dramatic congressional testimony from the Defense Department's inspector general on overpayments in DOD spareparts purchasing last month made national headlines and the network news. For most of the public, this is DOD conducting 'business as usual.' Some, though, have noticed that the problem is
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More taxpayers using electronic filing
As of April 3, the Internal Revenue Service had received 67.4 million tax returns, nearly onethird of which had been filed electronically. That is up from the same period in 1997, during which 26 percent of tax returns had been filed electronically. Taxpayers can file returns electronically using
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Funding and spectrum conflicts threaten GPS civilian expansion
The departments of Defense and Transportation need to quickly resolve complex funding and spectrum issues to provide the Global Positioning System's second and third civilian signals, which Vice President Al Gore announced late last month, according to top Pentagon and DOT officials. Developed by D
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Giving Up on the Silver Bullet
My generation must have watched too many 'Lone Ranger' episodes in our youth. I know I watched every week.
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Judge orders NARA to stop destruction of electronic docs
A federal judge yesterday ordered the National Archives and Records Administration to require agencies to preserve or dispose of electronic records according to a temporary policy issued last month.
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DOD readies contingency plan for aging Autodin
The Senate late last week established a special committee to address the Year 2000 problem.
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U.S. gears up for defense of GPS spectrum
Key federal spectrum officials voiced concern today that the United States might not gain the protection it needs for Global Positioning System satellite signals when an international meeting of radio spectrum users convenes in 1999.
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Russians selling navigational jamming device
The Senate late last week established a special committee to address the Year 2000 problem.
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