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NARA creates panel to rewrite records rule
While the National Archives and Records Administration has convened a panel to develop guidelines for managing electronic federal records federal agencies are left to decide for themselves how to handle electronic mail and documents in the interim. NARA's decision to convene the Electronic Records
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Pentium Upgrades: When Do They Make Sense?
Your agency probably has many older Pentium PCs bought two or three years ago when they were the fastest systems around. Now however these PCs are finding it difficult to handle today's complex Webbased and multimedia applications.
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PC industry turns attention to management concerns
LAS VEGAS At the Comdex trade show late last month hardware and software vendors unveiled a wide range of new or unannounced products that recognize an industrywide concern of making the enterprise computing environment more powerful and manageable. The products on display covered everything from
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ODIN opens to all feds
The General Services Administration and NASA will sign an agreement this week opening the Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN) contract to all government agencies and increasing its value up to $5 billion from almost $1 billion. Originally ODIN was intended to outsource hardware software
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Federal Bytes
Short cuts Scores of wellwishers and a long lineup of 22 speakers representing government and industry gathered last week to bid farewell to Bob Woods retiring commissioner of the Federal Technology Service. Much of the evening consisted of jokes at the expense of Woods' height or lack thereof (
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Protests plague DISA telecom procurements
The Defense Information Systems Agency's decision to modify existing contracts for key telecommunications programs has led to a series of vendor protests in the past month. In particular three procurements are at issue. DISA recently modified AT&T's domestic DISA Transmission Services Contract (DTS
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NOVEMBER 1719 CSI 24th Annual Computer Security Conference and Exhibition. Sheraton Washington. Washington D.C.This conference will feature more than 110 vendors of computer security products and services. Call (415) 9052626 Web www.gocsi.com. 1719 Computer/Communications Procurement in the Fede
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New Federal EC Bills Touch State Efforts
The House of Representatives has taken up two new pieces of digital signature legislation with implications at the state level.
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Intercepts
* No Betamax. That's the analogy that Pete Paulson DISA's DISN operation chief uses to describe the agency's cautious approach to the insertion of ATM technology into DOD's backbone network. Concerned about the lack of standards in the networkgizmo industry Paulson said DISA does not want to acqui
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DOD Supply launches BPA barrage
The Defense Supply ServiceWashington has quietly awarded a series of blanket purchase agreements covering a range of information technology products and services open to more than 320 DOD agencies. Although DSSW officials have not attached dollar values to any of the four BPAs awarded so far obse
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Agencies determine success or failure of past performance
The American Bar Association recently released the results of a survey of government industry and the private bar on how the government is doing using past performance in procurement. Although there were only 133 respondents (24 from government 75 from industry and l8 from the private bar) some pat
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Industry Watch
New Norton package for Windows 95 Symantec Corp. last week announced Norton Utilities 3.0 for Windows 95 the company's latest version of its popular utilities package. The product which will begin shipping this week features new and advanced problemsolving disasterrecovery and optimization capabi
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FAA finds Year 2000 tools not up to snuff
The Federal Aviation Administration faced with a time and date software problem that threatened this month to bring down one of its air traffic management systems was forced to manually sift through more than a million lines of code after software tools designed to find code containing times and da
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Cohen plan splits C3 & intelligence
Six months after a major review of Defense Department operations Secretary of Defense William Cohen last week announced a sweeping reform of DOD that will dramatically alter how the department manages information technology as well as bolster major Defense IT initiatives. While the Quadrennial Defe
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Fedwire
Davis to pursue coop purchasing Rep. Thomas Davis (RVa.) last week said he will reintroduce early next year cooperative purchasing legislation that would allow state and local governments to purchase products and services from the General Services Administration's multipleaward schedule. Languag
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GAO lambastes credit union regulator for slow IT fix
In its latest criticism of agencies that have failed to assess and fix computers to properly manage the Year 2000 date change the General Accounting Office last month blasted the National Credit Union Administration for not moving fast enough to fix its computer systems. Last month GAO told the Sen
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A close shave When Joe Koenig director of federal sales for St. Louisbased World Wide Technology Inc. passed through town last month he was sporting a new hair style: a crew cut. During the summer Koenig told his sales staff he would shave his head if they met their numbers for the end of the fisc
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ATF awards leasing pact to Unisys
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms last month awarded a blanket purchase agreement for seat management services worth up to $30 million to Unisys Corp.'s Federal Systems Division. A Unisys spokesman said the company will provide equipment and services including PCs notebooks printers server
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