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E-mail: Look before you delete
NASA's recent decision to automatically destroy all departmental electronic mail after 60 days regardless of the digital message's significance shows how little the government has progressed in setting a policy that will preserve electronic historical records for future Americans to study. The
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Census launches pact to outsource data centers
The Census Bureau last month released a statement of work for the second part of a system that will for the first time electronically capture data for the 2000 census. With the Data Capture Services Contract (DCSC) the bureau is looking for a contractor that will acquire and manage a number of data
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Letters to the Editor
Notion of saving money I read with concern the many statements by industry and some Congressional personnel regarding the FAA's award of the ICEMAN contract to the Agriculture Department. It is not the responsibility of government to provide corporate welfare to private industry (timber land and mi
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Set-Asides
Agencies not ready for GPRA When the Government Performance and Results Act goes into effect this fall most agencies will not have completed the analysis required to develop comprehensive strategic plans the General Accounting Office concluded. In a study published last week GAO reported that in on
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Round Two
AN ARTICLE IN THE JUNE 2 ISSUE OF FEDERAL COMPUTER WEEK ERRONEOUSLY STATED THAT LT. COL. WILLIAM GOLDEN HAD BEEN A PILOT EARLIER IN HIS CAREER. IN FACT HE BEGAN HIS AIR FORCE CAREER SERVING AS A MISSILE CONTROL OFFICER ONBOARD AIRCRAFT SUCH AS 'LOOKING GLASS.' WE REGRET THE ERROR.
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Savant targets feds with Oracle database tool
Savant Corp. is gearing up for a federal sales push of its Oracle Corp. database systems management product.Savant Bethesda Md. markets Q Diagnostic Center for Oracle which is designed to help database administrators track the health of Oracle 7 database environments. Since its release last Novembe
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CDC molds nationwide collaboration of immunization databases
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that slightly more than threequarters of the nation's children are properly vaccinated by the age of 2. As part of an effort to increase that figure to 90 percent by 2000 the agency is developing a nationwide 'mosaic' of immunization databas
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Firm sets up on-linetracking service
A Reston Va.based information technology procurement consulting firm last month began marketing an online service that allows vendors to track the status of federal procurements. The Federal Capture Group's service called ITFedStrat 2000 initially will track up to 1 000 opportunities said Joe Coo
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Five vendors tappedfor $100M Y2K work
The U.S. Postal Service this week is expected to sign ordering agreements with five vendors to provide wideranging Year 2000 services for the agency nationwide agreements that could be worth $100 million in business according to industry sources. The five vendors Computer Sciences Corp. Unisys
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Concerns over NGI threaten funding
Congress may balk at funding the Clinton administration's $100 million Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative because of the concerns of some legislators about the structure of the multipleagency researchproject and the apparent exclusion of rural states from the process. Members of a Senate su
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'Master' agreements to integrate agency
In what it characterizes as a new way of doing business for systems development the U.S. Postal Service has announced plans to award seven longterm 'master' contracts for particular functional areas that span the department. With the socalled Preferred Supplier/Partner Agreements USPS will hire o
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CBD Watch
Agriculture Department. Information technology services including telecommunications services. (CBD June 5) The USDA is soliciting information from public and privatesector commercial organizations on technically feasible equipment and systems that can provide electronic benefits transfer equipag
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Telecom giants battle for $1B systems revamp
Bidders view the upcoming $1 billionplus project to upgrade Pentagon telecommunications systems as a battle of the telephone giants pitting AT&T against its offspring including Bell Atlantic and Lucent Technologies Inc. as well as GTE Inc. All four companies will vie for a prize valued as both a s
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Marines take new IT to Sierra Leone
Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) responding to realworld contingencies in Sierra Leone and the Congo during the past month tapped into newly deployed command control and information technology systems to support these missions. Marines from the 22nd MEU who last week evacuated 2 500 Americans and
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Sen. Levin concerned about MOLs
Concerned that changes in regulations guiding the General Services Administration's multipleaward schedule program have reduced free and open competition Sen. Carl Levin (DMich.) sent letters to four agencies last month requesting information on the extent to which they make large purchases from
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GDE lands library-images pact from AF
The Air Force last month chose GDE Systems Inc. to maintain and upgrade a huge library of satellite images used by the Defense and intelligence communities to plan missions. The Image Product Library is part of the massive U.S. Imagery System which the National Imagery and Mapping Agency is creatin
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Unisys offers feds on-line ordering
Unisys Federal Systems Division has formed a new venture called Select IT that will let government users order offtheshelf computer products online and have them delivered within one to two days. The new service announced last week gives users access to more than 35 000 products sold by six majo
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Treasury taps Telos for TDPI
The Treasury Department last week chose Telos Corp. to supply Microsoft Corp. Windows NTbased workstations and servers to its bureaus under a oneyear blanket purchase agreement. The award is the second of nine BPAs the department intends to sign as part of its Treasury Distributed Processing Infr
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