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ROSTER
The Defense Information Systems Agency restructured its top management with Diann McCoy taking over as deputy director responsible for command control communications and intelligence programs (C4I) from William Curtis who will become deputy director for procurement and logistics. McCoy previously s
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IBM, NCR win $218M USPS pact
IBM Corp. and NCR Corp. last week snared a $218 million U.S. Postal Service contract for pointofservice equipment. The dualaward pact sets the stage for a showdown between the vendors' retail product lines for a potential $1 billion in USPS business. The award of the POS ONE contracts follows a
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Air Force Net woes
I read the Intercepts item 'SSG Web snafu' from the July 29 issue of Federal Computer Week. It seems the information you received is in error. On July 24 at approximately 0300 hours EST the big 'I' had its AServer Domain Name Server or DNS crash as a result of human error. This caused a catalytic
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Agency CIOs: More than half have been approved
More than a week after the Information Technology Management Reform Act took effect 16 of 27 federal agencies have had their chief information officer appointments approved by the Office of Management and Budget. Five agencies have selected acting CIOs. Within the remaining agencies an official has
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Micron aims to prime on federal contracts
Micron Electronics Inc. thinks its PCs can make the big time in the federal market and has ambitious plans that include bidding PC deals as a prime contractor. Though a newcomer to the federal arena the Nampa Idahobased company already has vaulted into the ranks of top 10 PC vendors on the General
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Finding the right browser for the right job
Four years ago one of my most frequently used OS/2 applications was a communications program called TE/2. I had generated a list of more than 65 electronic bulletin boards that I contacted regularly for technical support. I had a separate telephone line installed for my modem and always was looking
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Searching for tools to save time in Year 2000 solutions
With the race to beat the Year 2000 clock on in earnest federal agencies are turning to software tools to help them save time and renovate systems before the inevitable deadline.Tools available today automate a number of steps in a Year 2000 project. The aides can help organizations inventory their
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NCSA to certify Web sites
NEW YORK The National Computer Security Association (NCSA) recently announced a World Wide Web site certification program to help assure Web users and Web site administrators that sites are secure from hackers and invasions of privacy. NCSA officials said the program is intended to give Webmaster
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20 vendors win NIH contracts
The National Institutes of Health on Aug. 15 awarded 20 contracts to vendors under ImageWorld a trendsetting procurement that could be worth more than $100 million. With its emphasis on commercial products ImageWorld is expected to reshape the way agencies buy imaging technology. The winners of th
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Fed Sources debuts tool for C3 business
Federal Sources Inc. McLean Va. last week announced a market research tool that tracks command control and communications opportunities. The C300 Opportunities database a part of Federal Sources' Fedmark Defense service tracks electronicsbased systems in the Defense Department market. Users can se
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AWARDS
Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc. A $64.8 million award for training resources user services and technology. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration OFACS/DCPN Information Technology Contracts Branch HFA511 5600 Fishers Lane Park Building Room 320 Rockville Md. 20857 CACI In
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Ocean advocate dives into data
Henry Frey the new director of the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) has managed to dovetail his personal interests with his professional life. As an oceanographer diver and former professor of oceanography his passion for the ocean overlaps on a daily basis with his job of managing the lar
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Netscape still dominates in federal marketplace
Although the federal version of the battle to dominate the World Wide Web is just heating up Netscape Communications Corp. remains the browser of choice for federal users even though Microsoft Corp. is throwing enormous resources into its push to emerge from a distant second place. Microsoft last w
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Agencies to tap omnibus vehicles for Year 2000 gear
Federal agencies under the gun to focus their attention on the Year 2000 crisis are tweaking a long line of existing contracts to speed the acquisition of the tools and services they will need to sift sort and renovate the millions of lines of daterelated code underlying their legacy systems.
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Treasury moves to AT&T at a crawl
The Treasury Department's move from Sprint to AT&T's FTS 2000 network will not be completed until early next year more than twice as long as originally planned and what some observers said is a harbinger of PostFTS 2000 problems to come. The transition which the General Services Administration t
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Lockheed Martin lands $900M Air Force pact
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems last week won a contract worth up to $900 million to modernize the Air Force's major information systems. The contract is a key component in the Pentagon's vision of seamless interoperability across Defense Department support systems. Under the Global Combat Support
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Democrats in Chi'town
The Democrats still have the party that likes to party based upon a glance at the World Wide Web site (www.democrats.org/) the Democratic National Committee (DNC) set up for the party convention starting Aug. 26 in Chicago. While the Republican National Convention Web site strived to keep "cyberd
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NSF focuses on high-speed networking applications
A year after dismantling its flagship NSFnet the National Science Foundation announced that it will focus on the development of highspeed networking applications a move designed to relieve researchers fuming over congestion on the Internet. Specifically NSF is entering the second phase of develo
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INTERCEPTS
Doing the DSSG. Signals from my East St. Louis antenna site correlated with intell picked up by my Courthouse Road stealth unit indicate Government Systems Inc. has quietly dropped its protest and suit against the $3 billion DISN support pact awarded to Boeing by DISA. This clears the way for B
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