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The Federal Integrator Survey
The federal budget impasse is over, and the government shutdown is history, but integrators are still dealing with the effects of both crises. About twothirds of the respondents to Federal Integrator's third annual prime contractor survey reported that the budget situation is having some impact on
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AWARDS
Lockheed Martin Technical Operations. A $35.2 million award for a network integration contract.
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SET-ASIDES
Panel starts study of possible changes in IRS operations Congress last month appointed members to the new National Commission to Restructure the Internal Revenue Service, which will recommend changes to the agency's operations, including its computer systems. Its 12 members include Sen. Charles Gra
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Intercepts
DISN hornets' nest. The infighting over the multibilliondollar Defense Information Systems Network continues, with the board here at Intercepts Central lighting up with more gossip, rumor, innuendo and the rare fact than my processors can handle.
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DMS offers $5 Notes upgrade
Lockheed Martin Corp. is offering an earlybuy program to Lotus Development Corp. Notes users who want to upgrade to the Defense Message System version of the product.
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Miltope wins $80M Army deal
Miltope Corp. has captured an estimated $80 million contract to supply up to 10,000 portable computers to the Army's Test, Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment activity. TMDE's Soldier's Portable Online Repair Tool (SPORT) pact will provide the Army with mobile maintenance systems. The SPORT machi
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SSA's Adams focuses on Year 2000
When Kathleen Adams agreed last year to chair an interagency committee on the Year 2000, she never thought that she would attract so much attention. "You think about the genesis of how this thing got started," said Adams, whose fulltime position is associate commissioner of the Office of Systems
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Integrators on Schedule
Integrators are jumping on the bandwagon as more sales go through the General Services Administration's multipleaward schedule program.
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Officials: Revised A-76 urges better IT management
Recent revisions to federal policies that concern outsourcing should encourage agencies to manage information technology and other functions better but not necessarily contract them out, Office of Management and Budget officials said last week. "The main point is to create competition on a level p
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Sun: Army biased for Windows NT
Sun Microsystems Inc. may bring the Army WorkstationI program to a halt, with an 11thhour protest against awards to Digital Equipment Corp. and HewlettPackard Co. filed last week. According to the protest filed with the General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals, the Workstation
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GAO confirms DISA's right to choose procurement path
A General Accounting Office protest decision, recently made public, upholds the Defense Information Systems Agency's right to choose a multiple acquisition strategy for the Defense Information Systems Network.
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Unix, NT vendors contend for 3-D workstation market
As federal users demand higher functionality at lower cost, vendors in the competitive 3D workstation market are leapfrogging one another in a furious price/performance battle. In 3D, the top Unix workstation vendors are battling for market share, introducing new highend 64bit models and compet
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CDC to track illnesses in Atlanta
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is using this summer's 1996 Olympics Games in Atlanta to test a new computer system designed to track the ailments and illnesses that spectators may contract.
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NOAA names ship after Brown
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched its newest research vessel last month and named it in honor of former Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown, killed in a plane crash in Bosnia April 3. NOAA originally intended to name the 3,250ton, 274feetlong ship "Researcher" but change
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Legislation
* Equal Opportunity Act of 1996 Purpose: Prohibit use of minority preferences in federal programs; relieve contractors of having to maintain affirmativeaction plans with goals and timetables. Sponsors: Rep. Charles Canady (RFla.) and former Sen. Bob Dole (RKan.) Status: March approval by House J
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Bypassing skeds leaves users in lurch
The Air Force's decision to prohibit purchases from the General Services Administration's B and C schedules while Desktop V is tied up in protest pulled the rug out from under Air Force users and prospective vendors.
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8(a)s Grapple With Political Battles, Procurement Reform
The 8(a) community this year finds itself beset by politics and marked by such emotionally charged issues as racial quotas and discrimination.
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SYSTEMS INTEGRATION SCENE
FDC Technologies Inc. recently hired two federal information technology veterans to senior management positions. The Bethesda, Md., integrator named Sterling E. Phillips Jr. vice president of its services group. The company also appointed Charles M. Matthews Jr. vice president responsible for manag
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Vendors showcase high-tech WIN wares
Potential suppliers for the Army's Warfighter Information Network (WIN), a multibilliondollar project to upgrade all aspects of battlefield communications from fiberoptic cable to widebandwidth routers used last week's Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association/TechNet '96 (AFCE
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