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Letters to the Editor
VA's GILS setup confirmed In our recently completed final report for the study 'An Evaluation of the Federal Government's Implementation of the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) " we incorrectly reported that the Department of Veterans Affairs had not implemented an agency GILS. An art
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Agenda
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FAR rule includes time fields
An amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation aimed at ensuring that government contracts address Year 2000 issues unnecessarily expands the definition of Year 2000 compliance possibly causing confusion among Year 2000 contractors vendors said last week. Issued late last week the final rule se
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Micron unveils high-end PC workstation
Micron Electronics Inc. last week introduced a new highend workstation featuring Intel Corp.'s new Pentium II chips and incorporating Micron's own highbandwidth chipset technology. The Powerdigm XSU comes with dual 300 MHz Pentium II processors 512K of cache for each processor 64M of memory and a
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Groups want CRS reports on Internet
A Washingtonbased advocacy group this month urged Congress to give the goahead for the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to make its reports electronically available to the public via the Internet. In a letter sent to Rep. William Thomas (RCalif.) chairman of the House Government Reform and O
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Rep.'s site offers floor info; NASA sells online
When Congress reconvenes next week those interested in keeping up with the flurry of new legislation action can do so by pointing their browser to Majority Whip Tom DeLay's (RTexas) home page. DeLay's home page on the Web (majoritywhip.house.gov) has been quite popular of late according to DeLay's
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GSA begins management of '.gov' domain names
Federal agencies soon will be required to contact the General Services Administration when they want to register a '.gov' domain name on the Internet or the World Wide Web. Effective Oct. 1 GSA's Center for Electronic Messaging Technologies (CEMT) will have full management and registration authorit
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Hughes opens DT V to credit card buys
Federal users planning to buy computers from the Hughes Data Systems Inc. Air Force Desktop V contract can now complete their purchases the way many consumers do: use plastic in this case the government's International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card (IMPAC). The Air Force also has made it e
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Ships' old computers show need for Navy IT overhaul
NORFOLK VA tour of two Navy ships docked here at the Norfolk Naval Station demonstrates just why the Navy is pursuing its Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT21) program a massive undertaking that will use commercial technology to create a seamless shiptoshore computing environment.
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Banyan updates client software
Banyan Systems Inc. announced the next version of its BeyondMail electronic messaging client that adds a host of new features including full support for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95 and new tools for mobile users. BeyondMail 3.0 for Intelligent Messaging which will be added to the General Services
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SBA proposes 8(a) mentoring program
New rules proposed by the Small Business Administration for its 8(a) minority businessdevelopment program would encourage experienced companies to shepherd startups. The mentorprotege program would team successful 8(a) companies that have left or are about to leave the program with participants
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NRC report calls for making NII accessible to everyone
Government and industry must initiate a major research effort to make the National Information Infrastructure (NII) accessible to the public regardless of individual abilities or where people live according to a National Research Council report released last week. Although the explosive growth of n
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GILS possible if tied to agency Web sites
A recently issued report (www.unt.edu/slis/research/gilseval/titpag.htm) on the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) portrays a very unevenly implemented locator service excellent in a few agencies and barely a token effort in others. The authors William Moen of the University of North T
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VA managers use special software to make health, budget decisions
The Department of Veterans Affairs last month ratcheted up training at its medical centers on how to use a special software program to assess the costs and benefits of providing health care findings from which the agency will use to make management and budget decisions. The software is the heart
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Virginians Choose Personalized License Plates on the Web
Virginians Choose Personalized License Plates on the Web
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CBD Watch
Commerce Department. NATO multisource data acquisition (MSDA). Sol. CO8063MSDA. (CBD Aug. 20) NATO is inviting bids for an MSDA service capability. The MSDA will provide the operational and intelligence staffs with the basic capability to extract intelligence data and products from heterogeneous
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Awards
Universal HiTech Development Inc. A $2.5 million award for computer support services. Army Research Laboratory Adelphi Md. BBN Systems and Technologies. A $1.6 million research and development award for a toolkit for creating adaptable distributed applications. Rome Laboratory Rome N.Y. DPSC Softw
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GTSI adds MicroTouch whiteboards to GSA sked
MicroTouch Systems Inc. said last week that Government Technology Services Inc. (GTSI) now carries the company's product line of electronic whiteboards to General Services Administration schedule customers. MicroTouch's suite of four products which resemble typical whiteboards used in conference
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Industry Watch
Netscape unbundles Navigator Netscape Communications Corp. last week unveiled the unbundled standalone Netscape Navigator 4.0 software which features Netscape's Netcaster push technology. Navigator the browser component of Netscape's Communicator client package will offer traditional browsing func
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