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Round Two
In a table listing the 29 prequalified bidders for the National Institutes of Health's Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners project, Federal Computer Week incorrectly identified Systems Resources Inc. as a bidder. System Resources Corp. is expected to bid on the contract.
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Intergraph debuts NT machines
Intergraph Computer Systems, Huntsville, Ala., today will introduce a new generation of its Microsoft Corp. Windows NTbased TDZ 3D graphics workstations, which incorporate the vendor's new RealiZm 3D graphics accelerators. TDZ workstations are available with one (TDZ310), two (TDZ410) or four
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Draft RFP out for DCS system
The Census Bureau late last month released a draft request for proposals (DRFP) for its imagebased Data Capture System (DCS) that changes the acquisition strategy for the system that will process forms for the 2000 census. Census now says it will make one award for the design, development, product
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Congress questions IRM leadership
The Agriculture Department is again in trouble with Congress, which is questioning the leadership of technology programs at USDA and has asked the General Services Administration to suspend certain delegations of procurement authority (DPAs). In a letter to GSA last month, House Agriculture Committ
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NIH preps wide-scale imaging pact
The National Institutes of Health last week released a request for proposals for one of the largest imaging, document management and workflow contracts in government to date. NIH plans to make multiple awards by the end of this month for its ImageWorld contract, an estimated $100 million, fiveyear
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FEDWIRE
DISA releases RFP for services pact The Defense Information Systems Agency last Friday released the request for proposals for an estimated $610 million engineering services multipleaward pact. DISA's Joint Interoperability and Engineering Organization Systems Engineering contract includes compute
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System tracks disease; links labs, health care centers
The National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) plans to use part of a $26 million boost in its fiscal 1997 budget to build a computer system to track emerging infectious diseases that are fatal and becoming resistant to modern drugs. The Clinton administration is lobbying strongly for what it c
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NPR, GAO at odds over number of action items
The National Performance Review has signed off on 380 of the 1,203 action items on the NPR agenda. In a report to Congress, however, the General Accounting Office challenged a substantial number of those completions, claiming that, in fact, only about 77 percent of NPR's number were actual completi
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FEDERAL BYTES
Donkey network Forget being an Olympic sponsor. Bay Networks Inc. has been named the "Official Local and Wide Area Network Provider" for the 1996 Democratic National Convention. Bay Networks designed and implemented the convention's data network infrastructure, which will connect computer systems
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ROSTER
Col. Walter L. McKnight has been named chief of the Air Force's software division in the Directorate of Architecture and Technology (AF SCT). McKnight reports to AF SCT director William James. Computer Sciences Corp. has named Thomas Robinson president of its Technology Management Group, responsib
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GSI protests Boeing's $2B DISN services buy
Government Systems Inc. late last month lodged a protest against the Defense Information Systems Agency's $2 billion Defense Information Systems Network Support ServicesGlobal (DSSG) contract awarded to Boeing Information Services. GSI declined to provide any details about the protest, filed with
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AWARDS
Storage Technology Corp. A $5.9 million award for magnetic cartridge subsystems. Agriculture Department, Office of Operations, POD, Room 1547South Building, 14th Street and Independence Ave. S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250. MCI Telecommunications Corp. A $451,534 award for an Internet service provide
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INTERCEPTS
Ready for some DISAwear. Those wonderful DISA enlisted folks who brought the world the muchprized DISA Christmas ornament have now come out with a clothing line, with sales dollars going to help families. Act now, and you could be the first on your block with a DISA Tshirt ($16.75), polo shirt
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Census' DADS: A good idea, but let's not forget about print
The Census Bureau is busy inventing the next generation of delivery mechanisms for getting government information to the people. It's called the Data Access and Dissemination System (DADS), and it's intended to be the information distribution system to carry the agency into the 21st century. While
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Parties clash over Web-links policy
Oldfashioned politics clashed with new technology on Capitol Hill last week as House Democrats challenged their Republican colleagues to overturn a new policy restricting World Wide Web links. At issue is a rule, approved by the House Oversight Committee in late May, that allows House committee me
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Editorial
When reading about NIH's new Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners (CIOSP) program, we were reminded of the famous quote by a Russian general: 'Ever forward, but slowly.' With CIOSP, NIH plans to award between 12 and 15 contracts that will provide civilian agencies with a broad array of
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Gateway 2000 creates point man for fed sales
When Gateway 2000 Inc. decided to enter the federal market in 1994, it secured a General Services Administration multipleaward schedule. When it upped its commitment to the market earlier this year, it hired Jim Connal. Connal, managing director of federal sales for Gateway 2000, is a veteran of t
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GSA, Army award $1 billion in hardware, services pacts
The General Services Administration and the Army have quietly awarded more than $1 billion in governmentwide contracts for IT hardware and services to 8(a) vendors, a signal of how agencies will purchase products in the postBrooks Act era. Mary Whitley, director of GSA's Federal Systems Integratio
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Deutch favors center to avoid 'electronic Pearl Harbor'
Predicting that the United States would face "very, very large and uncomfortable incidents' at the hands of cyberterrorists, CIA Director John Deutch last week pledged to boost U.S. intelligence gathering of foreign information warfare threats. In testimony before the Senate Governmental Affairs
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