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RFP seeks GIS integration
The Open GIS Consortium Inc. a nonprofit group working to establish industry and governmentwide geographic information systems standards is calling for vendors to propose how to tie together disparate GIS systems. The organization issued a request for proposals earlier this year and expects vendor
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Federal 100: Pivotal players
Forms to nominate individuals for this year's Federal 100 awards appear in this issue. This is the eighth year this newspaper has sponsored the program which is designed to recognize those people in government and industry who have played pivotal roles in the federal world of information technology
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ROSTER
Charles Engle director of the Ada Joint Program Office at the Defense Information Systems Agency is resigning this month to join a subsidiary of Ericsson Inc. as vice president of the company's North American operations. Quality Laboratories specializes in a software engineering methodology known a
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Raptor captures its largest firewall deal
Raptor Systems Inc. has landed its largest federal deal ever a $1.7 million sale to the Air National Guard to install firewall systems at 96 sites nationwide. The Guard will use Raptor's Eagle 4.0 firewall to protect the internal networks of all of its flying units. The Guard purchased the firewall
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FEDWIRE
NASA cancels two contracts B udget constraints recently forced NASA to nix the $70 million HighSpeed Processor 4 contract at the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Md. The engineering support pact was to be used principally for the simulation of vehicles in flight. NASA also canceled Goddard's
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Dell ships midrange server
Dell Computer Corp. last week announced availability of its PowerEdge 4100 a midrange server powered by Intel Corp. Pentium Pro processors. The PowerEdge 4100 ships in single and dualprocessor Pentium Pro configurations at speeds of 180 MHz or 200 MHz. An entrylevel configuration with a single 1
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AWARDS
Sparta Inc. A $20.2 million award for scientific engineering and technical assistance support services for the Theater Missile Defense Organization. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization 1725 Jefferson Davis Highway Suite 1200 Arlington Va. 22202. Anteon Corp. A $12 million award order under the G
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Programs won't change, NIH official tells vendors
Officials at the National Institutes of Health last week assured vendors that a recent contracting office reorganization will cause no fundamental changes in three innovative information technology programs administered by the agency. In a meeting Wednesday with vendors participating in ImageWorld
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Electronic Turf Warfare
Jerry Paul information systems manager for Salinas Calif. predicted the city's computing future.
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Agencies eye commercial birds as interest in satellites grows
Satellites have played a minor role in government communications for some time but drastic cuts in the costs of transmission and hardware are bringing the medium a much larger profile in federal plans. This boost in the use of satellite time will give commercial providers a bigger slice of governme
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Naval Sea Systems Command
Project Objective: Navsea headquarters sought an intranet to enhance communications flow while Newport focused on database access. Status: Both projects are works in progress with enhancements continually being made. Investment: Use of existing network infrastructure and commercial offtheshelf so
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INDUSTRY WATCH
Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.'s 150 MHz Pentium laptops are headed for federal contracts. The Tecra 730 CDT is now available through AmeriData Federal Systems' notebook blanket purchase agreement with the Navy. The Tecra's price for 16M of RAM a 6X CDROM drive and a 12.1inch TFT displa
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National Institutes of Health
At a Glance Project Objective: Create an intranet that provides controlled access to sensitive information and at the same time permits groups to collaborate on projects. Status: The intranet infrastructure is up and running and the division continues to add new capabilities. Investment: Because th
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SET-ASIDES
CIOs back proposed changes to FAR Part 15 contracting rules T he Chief Information Officers Council has agreed to endorse proposed revisions to Part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation which governs negotiated contracts. Al Pesachowitz CIO at the Environmental Protection Agency and vice chairm
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HP, Tektronix carve new niches
HewlettPackard Co. and Tektronix Inc. today announced new printer lines aiming to carve out niches in the growing market for workgroup and departmental printers. HP debuted a network printer that the company is positioning as an alternative to the photocopier. HP has dubbed its product a 'mopier '
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NASA official looks to the stars and back home again
Robert Price always had a keen interest in science but it was the ferocious late1950s space race between the United States and the Soviet Union that honed his path to what has become a 29year career at NASA. When Price was in high school the two superpowers were maneuvering to be the first to sen
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Army Corps of Engineers
At a Glance Project Objective: Replace cable plant and create intranet to improve data access within organization. Status: A new cable plant has been installed and several intranet applications are up and running. Investment: $1 millionplus (including new cabling). Contractors: The Corps of Engine
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ORD links network to EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development (ORD) one of the most fragmented offices in an agency often criticized for its stovepipe approach to information management is rolling out a new network that will link it for the first time to the rest of the EPA. With the
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Browsing the virtual bookshelf
Tired of accessing online publishers that tease with titillating titles but provide only a portion of a publication's text? Then point your browser to www.nap.edu for immediate access to more than 1 000 fulltext health science and technology publications housed at the new Web site of the National
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