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Anti-crime measures top spending bill priorities
Focusing on crime and terrorism Congress pumped funding into dozens of law enforcement information technology systems and databasedevelopment projects in the catchall spending bill it passed last week before adjourning. The 1 198page omnibus appropriations bill folded into the 1997 Defense Depart
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IT director challenges bureaucratic inertia
For Frank Reilly director of information systems methods and support at the General Accounting Office the federal government's frequent inability to design and develop information technology systems has the same root cause as the problems that afflicted the ancient Babylonians a subject Reilly spen
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Veterans Affairs moves forward with VISTA program
The Department of Veterans Affairs is rolling out a new client/server architecture to its 150plus medical centers and is testing the first major application to take advantage of the updated infrastructure. The VA's Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VISTA) supersedes
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Vendors express doubts about new regulation
An initial look at a newly proposed regulation that would expand the use of simplified procedures to some acquisitions of commercial products has some vendors questioning the plan.The proposed rule would carry out a provision of the Federal Acquisition Reform Act (FARA) by letting agencies during a
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Air Force action is on the mark
The Air Force took bold and decisive action last week when it suspended one of its Desktop V vendors until some delivery problems had been corrected. The firm since has been reinstated and endofyear ordering continues apace. The incident left Monday morning quarterbacks discussing whether the ser
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Key IT projects at mercy of omnibus funding bill
The fate of a number of key federal information technology projects hangs on lastminute deals made in an omnibus budget bill for eight Cabinet departments and related agencies that Congress hopes to pass by Friday before adjourning for the year. House and Senate leaders said last week that funding
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Popkin, CACI announce software alliance
Popkin Software & Systems Inc. last week announced an alliance with CACI Products Co. to collaborate on business process reengineering tools. Under the agreement CACI Products' SIMPROCESS LITE a process simulation package will be integrated into Popkin Software's SA/BPR process modeling tool. The
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Federal Bytes
De Vera gets stern warningManny De Vera the National Institutes of Health's program manager for some high profile governmentwide information technology contracts last week had to endure a lot of ribbing and engage in a lot of explaining. The cause of De Vera's troubles was advertisements for NIH's
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UB Networks unveils Web-based management tools
UB Networks has introduced a suite of products that will allow network administrators to manage their networks from a World Wide Web browser. Called NetDirector@Web the suite of products allows for realtime management of the network and proactive network trend identification planning and analysis
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Intellectual-property bill draws fire
A bill that would merge the Commerce Department's Patent and Trademark Office and the Library of Congress' Copyright Office into one organization faced opposition at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week. The Omnibus Patent Act of 1996 (S 1961) was introduced in July by Sen. Orrin Hatch (
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ROUND TWO
In the article 'Justice joins fray with ITSS award' [FCW Sept. 16] the company name Anteon Corp. was misspelled. We regret the error.
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ICF, Cadmus win EPA support contracts
ICF Consulting Group and The Cadmus Group are gearing up to start work on companion contracts to help the Environmental Protection Agency expand its programs that promote energy efficiency. The contracts cover the upkeep of the information systems supporting the EPA's programs and the development o
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NTIA funds model Internet projects
The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration last week awarded $18.6 million in matching grants for technology projects designed to link rural communities and inner cities using the Internet and online services. Under the Telecommunications and Information I
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SAP America eyes fed market
SAP AG the fifthlargest independent software developer in the world has been virtually unknown in the U.S. federal sector. But this situation could be changing soon as the German software developer takes its first steps in the government market. The company's American arm SAP America Inc. earlier
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AT&T files tariff with FCC
AT&T has filed a tariff with the Federal Communications Commission for a set of international and domestic services geared toward the government that will compete with existing international contracts and potentially siphon some nonmandatory users from the FTS 2000 network.The new Government Worldw
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AWARDS
VSE Corp. A $23.8 million award for engineering and technical support services. Navy FISC Norfolk Detachment Philadelphia 700 Robbins Ave. Building 2B Philadelphia Pa. 191115084. CDS Network Systems Inc. A $62 310 award for laptop computers. Navy Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Contracting Depa
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Intercepts
Datadriven DISN. DISA has rescoped the size of DISN based upon a 100 percent surge in traffic over the past year most of it on the data side. Col. Marlin Forbes DISN PM said this reflects the 'phenomenal growth' of both NIPRNET and SIPRNET which host Internets and intranets and their related World
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INDUSTRY WATCH
NT common theme at Networld + Interop A TLANTA Of the hundreds of products unveiled or demonstrated at the Networld + Interop trade show here last week many had at least two letters in common: NT. Vendors have either embraced Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT or at least accepted the operating system
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