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Apple gains tech, agency customers in Next deal
With its acquisition of Next Software Inc. Apple Computer Inc. will be gaining more than a source of operating system technology the company also will inherit Next's blooming federal division which has doubled revenue in the past year with a bevy of agency customers.
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IRS imaging system costs may double The General Accounting Office said last month that an imaging system run by the Internal Revenue Service may cost more than double what was expected and is not being used as originally planned. GAO said the agency had largely overcome the technical problems that
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FDC wins $55M CERTAN contract
The National Institutes of Health has chosen FDC Technologies Inc. Bethesda Md. for a $55 million contract to upgrade and replace mainframes for the agency. The award made in midDecember is the second of four procurements planned under Project CERTAN (Computer Equipment Resources and Technology Ac
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LA Unveils Criminal History Reporting System
Los Angeles County law enforcement officers will have access to an extensive new criminal history database
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Tenn. Taps Library System Vendor
Tennessee recently selected Auto-Graphics Inc., Pomona, Calif., to design and operate a Web-based library catalog and inter-library loan system
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Wynd, IDP put wireless e-mail on agency pacts
Wynd Communications Corp. is working with International Data Products Corp. to bring wireless electronic mail technology to portable PC procurements. Wynd late last month announced that its WyndMail wireless email solution is available with the purchase of any IDP portable computer. IDP portables
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FBI declares IAFIS costs, schedule are under control
The FBI is expected to submit a report to Congress this week indicating that the cost and development of its massive fingerprint identification system are under control after reporting sharp budget overruns and delays earlier this year.
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Don't count on MSPB for protection
As a federal employee you have to stand up for your job rights. Otherwise don't be surprised if you are not treated fairly. Nancy Manley an Air Force employee demoted because of an unfavorable and apparently unfair performance evaluation in July 1993 learned that the hard way. Formerly a GM14 and
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Agencies lag in embracing GILS power
The Government Information Locator Service could become a nationwide and international standard for cataloging and disseminating government information but agencies have yet to embrace its potential according to federal officials and others attending a conference on GILS last month. "GILS holds gr
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FSS to use Internet as sales reporting tool
The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service next year will turn to the Internet to smooth the process by which schedule vendors report their quarterly sales.
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Intergraph targets feds
Intergraph Corp. is pursuing federal opportunities with a recently recast document management product line designed to improve the organization and distribution of an agency's technical information. Intergraph in September changed the name of its document management suite from DM2 to Asset and Info
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Report blasts Mac replacement
The chief information officer at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center did not follow agency policy and may have negatively affected space flight mission and safety when he issued an order to replace the center's Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh workstations with PCs that run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
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Patriot offers NT-based product on GSA sked
Patriot Technologies Inc. has won an exclusive General Services Administration contract to offer one of the first Microsoft Corp. Windows NT firewalls that also includes ActiveX protection. Gaithersburg Md.based Patriot will provide Global Internet's Centri Firewall 3.1.1 a security product specif
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Asymetrix steps up federal sales with ToolBook II set
Asymetrix Corp. aims to increase its presence in the federal market targeting agencies with tools for creating computerbased training applications. The Bellevue Wash.based company markets ToolBook II a set of software tools for authoring and managing Internetbased training systems.
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Printing reform: White House backpedals at public's expense
Why oh why does this administration lack the courage of its convictions when it comes to reforming federal printing policy? In the National Performance Review's manifesto "From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government that Works Better and Costs Less " the Clinton administration noted that cong
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INDUSTRY WATCH
IBM offers new gear on SEWP II I BM Corp. recently detailed its offerings on the network data server portion of NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation II procurement. In October NASA selected nine contractors for its $1.8 billion SEWP II program the sequel to the popular SEWP contract.
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Scalable architectures give supercomputing new life
The end of the Cold War was seen by many as the beginning of the end of the supercomputer in the federal government but that has not been the case. Instead sparked by new challenges associated with the end of the nuclear arms race and increasingly complex military confrontations such as the Persian
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LETTERS
Congratulations to your correspondent Bureaucratus on his prescience in his Nov. 11 column. I am the Michael J. Barry whose case is described in the article. The summary is concise accurate and wellwritten. His prescience is noted in the concluding paragraphs. The Department of Housing and Urban D
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FEDERAL BYTES
No nukes.com Glenn Schlarman policy analyst with the Office of Management and Budget's Information Policy and Technology Division generated a healthy guffaw at a recent meeting of Federal Webmasters. Schlarman was speaking about the need for federal Web site addresses to be more specific to aid the
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