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Three more government Web sites hacked
Just days after hackers broke into three Army World Wide Web sites, hackers today broke into three more government Web sites and altered the material on the Web pages.
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DOD bolsters its Bosnia comm setup
EAGLE BASE, TUZLA, Bosnia The fiberoptic communications cables that snake their way alongside the rough, plank walkways that serve as the sidewalks here at the headquarters of the U.S. force in the former Yugoslavia not only provide highspeed voice, data and Internet connections but also repres
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Cops Have Trouble Funding Wireless Efforts, Need More Room on Radio
Cops Have Trouble Funding Wireless Efforts, Need More Room on Radio
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Roster
The White House this month nominated Air Force chief information officer Art Money to serve as the assistant secretary of Defense for command, control, communications and intelligence (ASD/C3I). If approved by Congress, Money would fill a position left vacant since Emmett Paige Jr. retired last yea
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Fedwire
Charge card contracts worth billions The General Services Administration last week awarded six contracts to companies that will supply the next generation of federal government charge cards. Citibank, First National Bank of Chicago, Mellon Bank, NationsBank, American Express and US Bank will compet
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Four vendors win DOE research pacts
Under $50 million in contracts awarded earlier this month by the Energy Department, four vendors will spend the next four years developing the technology to build supercomputers that are 100 times more powerful than any that exist today. As part of the DOE program, Digital Equipment Corp., IBM Corp
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Dunn Computer acquires IDP in $23M cash/stock deal
In a move intended to strengthen its manufacturing operations, Dunn Computer Corp. has signed a letter of intent to purchase former 8(a) contractor International Data Products Corp. for cash and stock totaling $23 million. IDP, with its PC manufacturing facility in Puerto Rico, will keep its name a
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A reformed federal printing law soon? Don't hold your breath
The window of opportunity for reforming federal printing laws shrinks every day and may vanish entirely in a few months. If we don't get a law passed in the current Congress to revise Title 44 and the roles of the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) and the Government Printing Office, we probably won
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Set-Asides
GAO upholds protest The General Accounting Office last month overturned a Health Care Financing Administration computer contract that was awarded last fall. Comark Federal Systems Inc. in September protested a blanket purchase agreement award to Sytel Inc. to provide HCFA with 1,960 workstations. C
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Senate Bill Would Guarantee Next Generation Internet Funding For Two Years
Senate Bill Would Guarantee Next Generation Internet Funding For Two Years
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New Intel chip leads to new models, falling prices
Over the last two weeks, industry vendors have introduced a slew of new computers incorporating Intel Corp.'s 333 MHz Pentium II the company's fastest chip yet and have begun lowering prices on models with slower processors that only a few months ago were the latest thing. The faster processors
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Team lays out plans for virtual med system
Officials from the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs as well as the Indian Health Service last month laid out their plans for a multibilliondollar federal computerbased patientrecord system that could pave the way toward a national standard for virtual medical records.
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Legal appeals call for attention to details
What does it take to prove that you didn't retire voluntarily? That question recently came before the courts in a case involving Jack Daniel, an employee of the Tennessee Valley Authority, who claimed the agency coerced his retirement. Daniel said two agency actions led to his involuntary retiremen
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Spectrum battles mire Defense in budget & safety straits (Part 2 of 2)
Defense Department officials have confirmed that last fall the United States came perilously close to losing its hold on a portion of the radio spectrum used for Global Positioning System transmissions.
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Navy, AF outsourcing to save billions
The Navy and the Air Force hope to save about $2.5 billion each in their fiscal 1999 budgets by outsourcing or privatizing selected tasks, including information technology functions, according to internal documents. In a Jan. 15 Navywide message from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jay Johnson, the
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Pendulum metaphor need not dictate our destinies
One of the nice features of returning to academia is the opportunity to read significantly more books than I was allowed to while in government. Recently I read a book that is moderately renowned in academic circles, and that I, in fact, had on my bookshelf before going to Washington but had never
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Y2K costs could sap Clinton's technology budget requests
Major information technology initiatives in President Clinton's fiscal 1999 budget proposal, which was released this month, may be trimmed back by Capitol Hill appropriators as Congress focuses dollars on a the Year 2000 problem.
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Energy, IBM sign $85M pact for world's fastest computer
The Energy Department signed an $85 million contract with IBM Corp. Feb. 12 to build the fastest computer in the world within the next two years. The pact, under which IBM will produce a supercomputer capable of performing 10 trillion operations per second (10 teraflops), is the newest piece in DOE
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Netscape allays acquisition rumors
The chief executive officer of Netscape Communications Corp. last week dismissed rumors whirling on Wall Street that the company soon may be acquired by a larger technology company. 'We're not out looking for anything,' said Jim Barksdale, Netscape's president and CEO, in an interview with Federal
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