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Profile: Private sector is no culture shock for Woods
One might expect Bob Woods, who has spent much of his life as a civil servant, to experience a severe case of culture shock after leaving government service for a privatesector job as the president and chief operating officer of Federal Sources Inc.
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Air Force's costs soar skyward
The Air Force will spend hundreds of millions of dollars more than previously estimated to ensure that its thousands of computers properly process dates after 1999, according to new Air Force cost estimates. To fix its 2,944 computer systems so that they are Year 2000compliant, the Air Force now e
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Compaq acquires Digital for $9.6B
Looking to boost its presence in the enterprise computing environment, Compaq Computer Corp. last week announced it would acquire Digital Equipment Corp. and its extensive portfolio of computer and networking products and services. With the estimated $9.6 billion deal, in which Compaq will buy all
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Shredder cleans out Win95 desktops
After staking out a hard line against the government awarding contracts to itself, cooler heads seem to be prevailing on Capitol Hill.
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Federal Bytes
Bob Dornan, parking attendant The monthly breakfasts sponsored by Federal Sources Inc., McLean, Va., have proven popular events for federal IT industry movers and shakers. But there is an irksome downside to attending: the endless line to get out of the RitzCarlton's parking garage. The situation
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DOD funds battlefield IT and security
As part of a broad push for force modernization, the Defense Department next fiscal year will focus funding on such key information technology initiatives as battlefield digitization and information security, according to the department's fiscal 1999 budget request released today. The $257 billion
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Navy taps IDP for PC, notebook leasing pact
In a prototype procurement program that eventually could change the way it purchases information technology, the Navy Atlantic Fleet last month awarded International Data Products Corp. a fiveyear, multimilliondollar contract for leasing computers, peripherals and networking equipment.
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Clinton to ask for electronic filing, trade data systems
More than four years after the Clinton administration proposed automating interactions between businesses and federal agencies, officials plan to raise the profile of two projects designed to simplify the collection of trade data and promote electronic filing of corporate tax information. The presi
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Industry Watch
Customs awards OCR pacts The Customs Service has awarded Cornet Inc., Springfield, Va., and HiTech International, Arlington, Va., contracts to supply electronic document readers to the agency.
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HUD shares address book agencywide
In a move that should help eliminate redundant information and promote information sharing, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is planning to roll out a central electronic address book for scores of HUD offices nationwide. HUD is developing in house the HUD Communications Manager, whic
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Intercepts
RAMSTEIN AIR FORCE BASE, Germany Bosniabound again. The Interceptor has staged his flyaway dish here and manifested it through the Air Force Integrated Deployment System developed by the Standard Systems Group in Montgomery, Ala. for a return trip to beautiful downtown Tuzla and environs. T
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CIO Council tackles IT staffing shortage
The Education and Training Committee of the federal CIO Council last month kicked off an effort to address the problems agencies face in recruiting and retaining information technology workers. Glenn Sutton, vice chairman of the committee and deputy chief information officer at the Office of Person
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Data center consolidation: (Past) time to get moving
Citing possible operational savings of 30 to 50 percent, the Office of Management and Budget in October 1995 issued a bulletin directing agencies to inventory existing data centers and to produce by September 1996 a consolidation plan, with work due to be completed in early 1998. Well, early l998 h
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Integrators shore up work forces for Year 2000 projects
With the deadline looming for federal agencies to identify and fix Year 2000 software glitches, integrators, like the agencies, are stepping up efforts to find qualified people to do the work, even if it means turning to temporaryemployment agencies. While contractors report that most work is just
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OSD leaders Valletta, Rand jump on buyout bandwagon
Even as the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) faces a major reorganization, Anthony M. Valletta and at least five other senior members of the Defense Department's command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) staff plan to leave the Pentagon after applying for early buyouts last month.
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Whistle-blowers: be careful what you ask for
Even whistleblowers who have proved they have been the victims of discrimination do not always get all the compensation they want from the government.
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DOD to upgrade comm
STUTTGART, Germany The U.S. European Command (Eucom), headquartered here, has devised an innovative plan to quickly upgrade rather than replace its key backbone network in Europe in a partnership involving the Army, the Air Force, the Navy and the Defense Information Systems Agency. Air Force Bri
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Back to square one on welfare reform
After a year and a half of working in its secluded policy labs, the Department of Health and Human Services finally told Congress what the state information technology community has known for some time:
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Technology Is Tough Sell for State Budget Surpluses
Colorado's Andre Pettigrew calls 1997 a year of lost opportunities for state information technology investments. As executive director of the state's Personnel and General Support Services Department, Pettigrew watched in dismay as the state government returned $139 million in excess state funds to
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