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BTG sells product business to GTSI
In a bid to strengthen their individual positions in the federal market, BTG Inc. and Government Technology Services Inc. last month announced BTG would sell its product reseller business to GTSI in exchange for $8 million in cash and 3 million shares -- or 30.8 percent -- of GTSI's stock.
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HCFA warns noncompliant contractors
In a move to make computer systems that support the Medicare program Year 2000-compliant, the Health Care Financing Administration has threatened to deny new information technology contracts to vendors if they fail to make the systems Year 2000-compliant.
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Labor agencies strong-arm congress for y2k funds
The U.S. Labor Department has sent off the only set of checks the federal government will probably distribute expressly to help state agencies pay for their Year 2000 software conversion work.
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Is Your Intranet a Trojan Horse?
Intranets promise to bring elite applications to users more easily than traditional network systems.
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We look at three GIS packages designed with state and local users in mind
Most of the time you get what you pay for. And if somebody offers you something for free you have to figure that's probably just about what it's worth.
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Oregon County Clicks With Objects-Based GIS
Since their inception, geographic information systems have often sat on the periphery of traditional systems development.
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Indiana WIC Awards $3.5 million contract
Indiana WIC Awards $3.5 million contract
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Va. Sheriff's Office Posts Electronic Neighborhood Watch
Va. Sheriff's Office Posts Electronic Neighborhood Watch
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Group sues feds for nondisclosure
So even federal agencies including the Office of Management and Budget are violating laws that require them to disclose information about their major computer systems according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court. Public Citizen a consumer advocacy group has asked Judge Sta
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GSA sizes up competition for local telecom services
Local telecommunications providers and longdistance carriers alike are for the first time preparing to compete for the same federal contracts and are putting together their responses to the General Services Administration's Metropolitan Area Acquisition for telephone service in dozens of major cit
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OMB gets tough with agencies
Pushing agencies to hasten their efforts to fix the century date processing problem in government computers the Office of Management and Budget is expected this week to require seven agencies to begin moving hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for new information technology projects to fix da
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EPA sets goals, schedule for IT integration plans
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to spend up to $30 million over the next five years to expand electronic reporting for the industries it regulates and to set common standards for the data it collects and shares with states according to the agency's new information technology plan released
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Navy stays with PCs, Microsoft standards
HONOLULU The Navy plans to stay with the interim commercial standards issued in March for its massive project to link ship and shore computer systems despite heavy industry pressure for changes. The Navy still plans to build its Information Technology for the 21st Century project around Intel Cor
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Fedwire
NASA's Lee said to be White House pick Deidre Lee NASA's associate administrator for procurement has been nominated as the new director of the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy Federal Computer Week has learned. Lee's nomination has been submitted to the White H
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Eastman refines federal sales channels strategy
Eastman Software has launched a new federal business strategy designed to expand the reach of its small federal sales force by teaming with more integrators and resellers to market their imaging workflow and document management products. In an interview at the FedNet/Fed Imaging trade show in Washi
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Roster
Arnold Bresnick director of the Office of Information Resources Management at the Agriculture Department is the new chairman of the interagency Information Technology Resources Board. He replaces Mary Ellen Condon the director of the Justice Department's information management and security staff.
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PRC lands $40 million PTO pact
The Patent and Trademark Office unseated incumbent contractor Science Applications International Corp. and awarded to Litton/PRC Inc. a contract valued at $40 million to provide the agency with engineering and support services. PRC won the fiveyear Systems Engineering/Technical Assistance (SETA) I
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FAA rolls out advanced radar system
The Federal Aviation Administration late last month began using a new surveillance radar system that will increase airport capacity by allowing planes to land simultaneously on closely spaced parallel runways. The Precision Runway Monitor (PRM) system developed by AlliedSignal and now in use at the
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Set-Asides
DOD unveils data center plan The Defense Information Systems Agency this month announced plans to consolidate its 16 mainframe dataprocessing centers into just six facilities as recommended last month in the Defense Reform Initiative unveiled by Secretary of Defense William Cohen. The consolidatio
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