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NIH cancels supercomputer buy The National Institutes of Health last week canceled a $40 million procurement for highperformance workstations and supercomputers and instead will buy the equipment from existing contracts to save on acquisition costs. John Dickson chief of highperformance scientifi
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Axing computer games costly Representatives from the information technology industry said a Senate proposal to remove all computer games from the desktops of federal employees potentially could violate the terms of the ClingerCohen Act which requires the government to purchase commercial offthes
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Is collaborating with vendors a conflict of interest?
A company official raised the following topic: Sometimes agencies ask companies for information on products and services that they or others may sell for use in connection with an impending procurement.
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DOJ taps Bell Atlantic for new ATM service
Bell Atlantic Corp. last week said the Justice Department is the company's first federal customer to take advantage of its new tariffed Asynchronous Transfer Mode service. The Federal Communications Commission approved Bell Atlantic's ATM tariff in early June while DOJ was installing an ATM campusw
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Industry Watch
Compaq names channel partners Compaq Computer Corp. last week selected nine companies to participate in the PC vendor's Channel Configuration Program. Those companies are: CompuCom Systems Inc. Electronic Data Systems Corp. Entex Information Services Inc. GE Capital Information Technology Solutions
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House panel OKs updated security bill
The House Science Committee last week unanimously passed the Computer Security Enhancement Act which updates a decadeold federal computer security law and strengthens the role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to promote the security and privacy of federal systems. The bill whi
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Michigan Data Center Consolidation: How Did They Pull It Off?
The state of Michigan has almost completed a massive data center consolidation effort which has reduced 17 mainframe data centers to two and will save an estimated $79 million in its first five years of operation. The effort started five years ago and incorporated a chargeback revolving fund that
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Ivory Towers and Electronic Government
As information technology's advance approaches Mach speed how can state and local government professionals not just the usual publicsector IT crowdkeep pace with emerging applications?
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CDPD: Does It Work Yet?
When Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) service first appeared in 1994, it was heralded as a panacea to the cellular modem blues.
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Imaging Software Suite Assists Police Identifications
This spring the California Highway Patrol was looking for help for the witnesses to a childabduction case who were faced with manually examining hundreds of photos of cars thought to have been used in the crime.
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Team Building in the IT Shop
In the midst of a national information technology staffing crisis, California's Health and Welfare Data Center (HWDC), professional home to some 450 IT workers, has an astounding personnel record.
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Arizona Drivers Ready to Lay Rubber on the Internet
By the end of July the MVD, in partnership with IBM Corp.'s Government Service Delivery Program, will launch a Web site
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EPA makes invoice payments EASY
Federal agencies each year take a financial beating from private companies imposing steep interest charges on late invoice payments. Although the Environmental Protection Agency boasts an ontime invoice payment rate of better than 99 percent officials there now are installing an electronic invoice
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HUD to replace 89 financial systems The Department of Housing and Urban Development will replace 89 separate computer systems for financial management with a network under a departmentwide overhaul plan unveiled last week by HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo. The aggressive plan called HUD 2020 is design
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ITG protests courts'$30M award to BTG
Integration Technologies Group Inc. this month filed a protest against the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts' (AOUSC) recent award of a 10year $30 million contract to develop a nationwide relational database management system for judicial applications. ITG which bid on the SQL Database Mana
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Laser printers step into color, network roles
After years of acting behind the scenes in mostly blackandwhite productions laser printers are beginning to take starring roles in federal agencies stepping into applications ranging from fullcolor printouts of presentations military maps and World Wide Web pages to 'mopying' over distributed ne
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Navy brings substance, style to JWID '97 site
To stand out in the sea of images available on the World Wide Web many sites take the outdoorbillboard approach relying on graphics that visually scream at the clickby Net cruisers. That might have worked well in the pioneering days of the Web but to stand out today it helps to adopt a subtler ap
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Sterling protests $148M award to Hughes STX
Sterling Software Inc. last week filed a protest with the General Accounting Office accusing NASA of wrongly judging its past performance during the competition for a $148 million software support contract awarded this month. NASA Ames Research Center last week ordered Hughes STX Corp. winner of th
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