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TriTeal adds features TriTeal Corp. has extended the capabilities of the TriTeal Enterprise Desktop its standardsbased graphical user interface to support the Netscape and Microsoft Windows NT environments. Both TED 4.1 and NTED are based upon the Common Desktop Environment a graphical interface s
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Exhibition showcases warfighter IT links
FORT BRAGG N.C. Three weeks ago Capt. Ronald Lewis a helicopter pilot with the 82nd Airborne Division Aviation Brigade temporarily traded in the cyclic controller of his Kiowa Warrior helicopter for a mouse hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc. workstation. Since then he has tested the ability of
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Symantec, CyberMedia unwrap utility offerings
Symantec Corp. and CyberMedia Inc. are targeting the federal market with tools designed to help organizations manage their PC networks. Symantec Cupertino Calif. today announced the availability of Norton Administrator Suite Premier Edition a product that aims to corral large heterogeneous PC net
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GSA plans to open WITS to multiple contractors
The General Services Administration plans to negotiate with about a halfdozen telecommunications vendors to offer fast packet service Internet access Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and other services on the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WITS) network in the national capital r
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Senior Executive openingsto be posted electronically
The Office of Personnel Management this week will begin posting Senior Executive Service job vacancies electronically abandoning its practice of issuing biweekly printed lists of the government's most prestigious jobs. Agencies are required by law to advertise an SES position for 14 days. Sending p
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Novell bundle makes NetWare, Internet link
Novell Inc. in heated competition with Microsoft Corp. and Windows NT in the network market announced a product bundle last week that will give NetWare users a way to create and manage their own internal intranets and connect them to the Internet. IntranetWare builds on the distributed services in
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For the record, archivist looks to the future
Consider historical research and the mind generates an image of people hunched over fragile yellowed documents piled high on library tables. But in the future historians investigating the American past are as likely to sit down in front of a computer monitor and click their way around CDROM discs
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Raytheon left standing after FAA down-select
The Federal Aviation Administration reportedly has eliminated all but one vendor Raytheon from the competitive range for its $200 million Integrated Terminal Weather System procurement.I TWS will allow air traffic controllers and airlines to better anticipate weather conditions in the airspace
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ROSTER
The Defense Department team of chief information officers is coming together. The Army plans to nominate Lt. Gen. Otto Guenther to be director of information systems for command control communications and computers (C4) while the Navy is putting forward Marvin Langston deputy assistant secretary fo
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DOD megacentergoes head-to-headwith private sector
The Defense Megacenter (DMC) in Oklahoma City is lining up with industry vendors to compete for any civilian data center operations that are outsourced beginning sometime next year. Under guidelines issued last year by the Office of Management and Budget Circular 9602 civilian agencies are req
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Business surges on GSA's integration program
Systems integrators last week said they are pleased with the business they have obtained so far from the General Services Administration Schedule B/C integration contracts. GSA has awarded integration contracts to 15 companies (see chart) to provide systems integration on the multipleaward schedul
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How are agency disputes resolved?
A reader presented the following topic: Frequently different government agencies have radically different interpretations of the same law. Generally such interagency disagreements have little impact on private parties. However sometimes there may be a considerable impact. How are these sorts of dis
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Feds get the picture on videoconferencing
After years of high prices questionable fidelity and confusion about standards videoconferencing seems ready to become a standard part of federal IT systems. Costs are falling for products from fullroom to desktop systems the return on that initial outlay seems to be growing and some standards are
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Mainframe readiness falls behind schedule
The majority of federal mainframe sites will be affected by the Year 2000 date problem and many of these sites have left little time to correct and test their systems according to a study released this month by International Data Corp. IDC reported that 83 percent of mainframe sites it surveyed cit
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Federal Bytes
Still a few bugs in the system The Air Force Standard Systems Group took governmentindustry relations to a whole new level during its recent Global Combat Support SystemAir Force (GCSSAF) procurement. As part of a larger initiative to streamline acquisition the Air Force mandated a purely electr
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Procurement reform: A grand experiment with good prospects
In attempting to radically change the institutions processes and cultures of the federal procurement world the government has embarked on what is probably the most ambitious reorganization experiment in history. Of course many previous and unsuccessful attempts have been made to 'fix this problem '
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Orders begin to flow through ITOP pipeline
Business on the Transportation Department's Information Technology Omnibus Procurement (ITOP) is beginning to flow as the first task orders move through the $1.3 billion multipleaward contract. Awarded in May ITOP is a governmentwide IT services pact spread across 20 prime contracts. The sevenyea
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GSA prints final guide for X.500 directory
The General Services Administration's Center for Electronic Messaging Technologies (CEMT) has released final guidance for federal state and local agencies on what they need to do to create an X.500 government electronic directory that would provide access to each agency's key personnel and document
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DOD memo seeks costs by Sept. 15
The Defense Department responding to a congressional mandate included in the DOD authorization bill has stepped up its efforts to identify the extent of its Year 2000 problem and the cost of a fix. In an Aug. 1 memo chief information officer Emmett Paige Jr. directed all DOD components and services
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