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CAD innovations spur productivity, savings
Although computeraided design software has been around for two decades the market has been rejuvenated in the past couple of years by advances in a number of supporting technologies. On the one hand highpowered affordable desktops have made CAD ubiquitous as vendors such as Autodesk Inc. and Inte
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The downside of 'everyone wins'
Two of four vendors last week declined to take part in what the Navy has billed as a $2.9 billion telecommunications equipment and services buy. AT&T Government Markets and Bell Atlantic Federal Systems said they feared their awards under the Navy's Vivid program were too small to be worth their in
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Set-Asides
Treasury calls for tax software The Treasury Department has asked vendors of payroll software to develop applications that would generate multiple tax reports for federal and state agencies so employers would only have to enter wage information into their payroll systems once. As part of its Simpli
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Agency seeks comments on modular contracting
The General Services Administration is soliciting comments on a white paper designed to offer federal agencies detailed guidance on how to conduct modular contracting. Lawrence Wolfe deputy associate administrator for information technology in GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy said the white pa
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CIA tales spun on Web
Love a good spy yarn? Then tap into the Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) site (www.odci.gov/csi) on the World Wide Web where true CIA tales match or rise above fiction. CSI the academic arm of the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence conducts research into CIA operations and pub
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Four integrators win $180 million DLA deal
Four systems integrators last week snared awards under the Defense Logistics Agency's Systems Engineering Technical Services program a $180 million vehicle designed to provide a range of softwarerelated services. DLA selected Electronic Data Systems Corp. Litton/PRC Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. and
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Roster
Charles Rossotti chairman of American Management Systems Inc. has been formally nominated by President Clinton to head the Internal Revenue Service. The nomination will have to be confirmed by the Senate later this year but lawmakers have indicated they support Rossotti for the post. The Senate las
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Texas native wrangles info technology for Treasury
Stephen Bryant assistant director in the Treasury Department's Office of Information Resources Management has decorated his office with photographs of desert flowers from his native Texas. He caught 'Potomac fever' as a congressional intern in the '60s but he still calls Dallas where he went to hig
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Industry surrenders to rewrite of Part 15
Despite some lingering doubts from small businesses that they could be put at a competitive disadvantage for future federal information technology contracts the IT industry has capitulated and accepted the proposed rewrite of Part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. The rewrite of Part 15 w
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Intercepts
New Orleans pork update. It's our favorite time of the year here at Intercept central appropriations bill season when we have the opportunity to check out what kind of technopork Rep. Bob Livingston (RLa.) put into the DOD spending bill for his district a budding Silicon PlainontheMississi
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Harris Corp. is apparent winner of FAA's OASIS
Harris Corp. is the apparent winner of a Federal Aviation Administration contract to upgrade a system that supplies general aviation pilots with weather data and flightplanning services. With the Operational and Supportability Implementation System (OASIS) contract worth as much as $125 million th
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Jury still out on effects of closing GSBCA
A year after the ClingerCohen Act shuttered the General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals as a venue for information technology bid protests agencies vendors and attorneys cannot agree if the law has improved contract litigation. How people view the performance of the General Acc
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GSA awards $243M services pact to Signal
The General Services Administration's Eastern Region last month awarded a fiveyear contract for information technology support services worth up to $243 million to Signal Corp. Fairfax Va. The contract awarded under the auspices of GSA's Federal Information Systems Support Program (FISSP) will off
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Air Force purchases first private satellite technology
The Air Force last week departed from decades of tradition with dedicated intelligence satellites and awarded its first satelliteimaging contract based on commercial technology instead of agencyspecific hardware. Orbital Sciences Corp. won the contract that will allow the Defense Department to sh
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Agencies use browsers to link legacy systems
In a meeting of newage and oldline technologies federal agencies are exploring the use of World Wide Web gear to access legacy data and applications housed in mainframes. The Air Force NASA the Patent and Trademark Office and the intelligence community are among the federal organizations looking
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Gateway taps small biz as GSA supplier
In a departure from its almostexclusive practice of dealing directly with government customers Gateway 2000 Inc. has decided to augment its General Services Administration schedule business through a small disadvantaged systems integrator Government Acquisitions Inc. With the GSA agreement Gateway
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Forest Service opens IT contract to Interior
Seizing an opportunity to cut costs and expand its already close working relationship the Agriculture Department's Forest Service will soon open up its primary computer hardware and software contract to the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management. The Forest Service plans to open its $276 m
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Institute calls for privatizing GPS
A conservative think tank last month released a report calling for the Air Force to sell its satellite communications system which provides troop locations and guides weapons to pinpoint accuracy to a private company. The Reason Public Policy Institute a Los Angeles public policy research group tha
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