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Access signs sales pact with Cordant
Cordant recently signed a sales agreement with Access Corp. to market Cimage document management software to federal organizations. Access is the exclusive North American distributor for Cimage.[ ]Cordant a unit of Tracor Inc. Austin Texas is selling Cimage under the Naval Facilities Engineering Co
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ROSTER
Lynn McNulty former president of McNulty & Associates information security consulting firm has accepted the position of director of government affairs for RSA Data Security Inc.'s McLean Va. office. RSA is a heavyhitter in the cryptography and OEM security software market with an installed base of
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DOD readies health services RFP
The Defense Department plans to issue a request for proposals next month for a potential billiondollar followon to an existing medical systems contract that will make military patient records in DOD's sprawling health care network electronically accessible from anywhere in the world. DOD's health
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DISA discloses secret NSA pact with Sprint
The Defense Information Systems Agency late last month publicly acknowledged a contract awarded to Sprint last fall for a classified global telecommunications network designed primarily to serve the supersecret National Security Agency according to industry analysts. Sources said last week that Sp
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GTSI focuses on mobile computing, Net security
Government Technology Services Inc. is bundling products and services into specific solutions in areas such as Internet security and wireless mobile computing. The new solutions are spearheaded by a GTSI "technology team" focused on networking and emerging technologies. The team is offering solut
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Data General, ESRI ally
Data General Corp. and Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. late last month inked a deal that allows ESRI to resell Data General Aviion servers running ESRI's Arc/Info 7.1 Windows NT software a graphic application for working with geographic data. Both the server and ESRI's stable of softw
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Sutten leads the evolution of the Army Signal Command
FORT HUACHUCA Ariz. To paraphrase Winston Churchill Maj. Gen. Charles Sutten did not intend to preside over the demise of the Army Signal Command (ASC) here when he took over as commanding general of its predecessor the Information Systems Command (ISC) in July 1995. But Sutten faced a situation
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Defense spending on C4I to hit $40B
Defense Department spending on command control communications computers and intelligence (C4I) will hit $40 billion in fiscal 1998 a $3 billion jump from fiscal 1997 a top DOD official said last month. Fiscal 1998 spending for C4I will remain 'robust' to support battlefield 'information dominance '
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High-risk systems waste billions
At two congressional hearings last week auditors from the General Accounting Office said information technology weaknesses have cost the government billions of dollars in fraud overpayments of benefits and purchases of unnecessary goods. The fraud and waste as well as poor service to citizens occur
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FEDWIRE
DOE plans $110M supportservices pact T he Energy Department is planning to launch a $110 million omnibus supportservices procurement that will eventually encompass all the support contracts of DOE's Energy Information Administration. EIA plans to issue a draft request for proposals March 31 for t
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Education looks for IT answers
Poor management of information technology systems has put billions of studentloan dollars at stake at the Education Department which has systems that appeared on the General Accounting Office's 'highrisk' list. Computer systems for the studentaid programs are crucial to the department's stabilit
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SEC's EDGAR II RFP finds few interested bidders
The deadline for proposals to support and upgrade the Securities and Exchange Commission computer system that provides intimate financial details on public companies came and went last month without many vendors submitting bids. Very few companies which included incumbent BDM Federal Inc. bid on th
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Baltimore firm tapped for Treasury's TCS
The Treasury Department has begun to buy keymanagement technology from Information Resources Engineering Inc. (IRE) to allow users to remotely access its nationwide network the Treasury Communications System. The Baltimore firm is providing tokenbased encryption products including secure modems a
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Training would put needy to work
Mitretek Systems of McLean Va. is crafting a special training program that may allow federal agencies to simultaneously tackle two vexing problems updating their computer systems so they function in the Year 2000 and providing jobs for welfare recipients. Mitretek and Virginia Tech's Northern Vir
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The Judges
This year's Federal 100 judges met at FCW's offices on Saturday Jan. 4. The weather which is almost always remarkable on the day of the judging was remarkably warm and sunny a condition that increased the value of the judges' contribution of their day off. Each panel of judges has its own persona
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Intercepts
The ASD/C3I hunt again. The search for a new ASD/C3I has almost become long enough for a soap opera. I continue to pick up signals that SecDef William Cohen still likes the bifurcated approach to the job with a deputy assistantship for a CIO (reserved for OMB IT guru Bruce McConnell) and an ASD s
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DISA pulls plug on $350M pact
With momentum building behind a proposal to turn over many basic operations to the private sector the Defense Department last week instructed the Defense Information Systems Agency to cancel a $350 million setaside program for data center support services. As announced by DISA director Lt. Gen. Al
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Treasury delays data services swap until after tax season
The Treasury Department has temporarily given up its yearlong effort to transfer its data services from Sprint's to AT&T's portion of the FTS 2000 network and will run the services on its internal Treasury Communications System at least until after the 1997 tax season. Jim Flyzik acting chief info
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Texas AG probes Microsoft
The controversial decision at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) to move to an allWindows environment may fuel the antitrust investigation of Microsoft Corp. now under way by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas. The Texas AG's office requested documents from JSC as part of its larger antitr
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