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Frontier software enables Win95 use on tactical nets
Frontier Technologies Corp. has developed software that will enable Army PC users to easily use Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95 products on its tactical networks. The Army has a multibilliondollar investment in tactical communications gear to support deployed units but until recently Army users could
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Fedwire
GSA issues FTS 2001 amendment The General Services Administration late last week issued as planned an amendment to the FTS 2001 solicitation for governmentwide longdistance telecommunications services. The amendment identified nine of the 19 services in the initial solicitation as optional for ven
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Award
STG Inc. A $3.65 million award for the management and operation of computer center facilities. Treasury Department Bureau of Engraving and Printing Office of Procurement Washington D.C. RVJ International Inc. A $3 million award for costengineering manufacturing technology and logistics support for
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Tech challenges complicate addition of audio to Web sites
Soundenhanced World Wide Web sites have been on the rise for some time in the commercial world but government sites are just beginning to experiment with sound. And that means coping with a variety of technical and managerial problems not all of them easily solved. 'I was actually quite surprised
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DOD'S HPCMP director loves the cutting edge
Kay Howell director of the Defense Department's High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has shaped her career around her love of cuttingedge technology and an appreciation of what users want from it. Howell took her first job out of college as a computer specialist with the Naval
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Virtual LANs ease administrative burdens
Localarea networks have grown larger more complicated and more dispersed since they were introduced in the 1980s. These changes fueled a desire among network administrators at government agencies for simpler administration. Virtual LANs (VLANs) offer such a possibility. VLAN a software feature ava
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Feds' strategic plans lack specifics on technology
Strategic plans recently created to comply with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) fall short in showing how agencies plan to manage information to better assess program results and costs a top General Accounting Office official reported last week to a House committee. In a report su
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Roster
Mark Catlett the acting assistant secretary for management and the chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs plans to return to his former job as the department's deputy assistant secretary for budget. A VA spokesman said Ned Powell is awaiting confirmation for Catlett's prese
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Preserving the nation's history
The question of how to preserve the federal government's growing backlog of electronic documents and thereby its history has been thrown into chaos. Last month a federal judge threw out a regulation that allowed agencies to delete email and word processor documents if paper copies were kept in sto
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NWS launches next super-CPU buy
The National Weather Service plans to replace its supercomputer with a faster system that would allow for more accurate forecasting of hurricanes tornadoes blizzards and other severe storms. The estimated $35.8 million acquisition would replace the existing 16processor Cray Research Inc. C90 compu
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Mitre to referee FAA, controllers' beefs
Under pressure from Congress the Federal Aviation Administration has done an aboutface and agreed to go back to the drawing board with air traffic controllers to iron out its flawed billiondollar ATC modernization project. The FAA has agreed to meet with Mitre Corp. a federally funded research an
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Federal Network Contract Guide
FTS 2000* Agency: General Services Administration* Available: Governmentwide* Vendors: AT&T and Sprint* Value/Ceiling: $4 billion* Duration: Awarded in December 1988. The contract will expire in December 1998 but a delayed recompete may extend the contract one year or longer.* Contact: Web www.fts.
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Oregon's Consumer Affairs Site Provides Vital Link to Business Services
Conventional wisdom holds that state agencies venturing onto the Internet should start small and stay practical with one or two key applications that are sure to win public approval.
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Working toward better messaging systems
For years the government's use of electronic messaging technology has been marked by a scattershot approach with individual agencies setting up their own systems and giving little regard to larger issues of interagency interoperability. In part the problem has been that most agencies have procured
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Project Management for the People
'Plans are useless' Dwight Eisenhower once observed of making preparations for battle 'but planning is indispensable.'
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A Year in the Making
This issue represents the first anniversary of civic.com, which we launched in November 1996
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New Technology and Business in the Civic Sector
Digital Imager of U.S. Cities Available on Internet I nexpensive accurate computerized imagery of your city can now be ordered over the Internet. Image Scans Inc. and Vexcel Corporation Inc. two Coloradobased software and imaging companies have released City Scenes
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ATM rides high atop Sonet
Although sometimes pitted against each other in the race to deliver everhigher network bandwidth Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Synchronous Optical Network (Sonet) technology are more frequently teamed. ATM is fast becoming the network switching technology of choice to ride atop highspeed S
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Police Get Back on the Beat With 'COPS MORE' Funding
The Clinton administration's plan to put 100,000 additional police officers on U.S. streets by 2000 is generating some healthy technology funding opportunities for local law enforcement agencies
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