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Cabletron adds ATM with ZeitNet buy
Cabletron Systems Inc. will offer federal customers a broader range of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) products following its acquisition of ZeitNet Inc., a network access provider.
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DOD IT budget gets $500M boost
The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) last week approved a bill that provides nearly $500 million in unrequested funds for Defense Department information technology programs in the 1997 budget.
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Federal Integrator's Top 25 Primes
In federal integration, the big keep getting bigger.
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Federal Integrator's Top 25 Subcontractors
This year's subcontractor list is a tribute to stability: All but four of the vendors were ranked as top product suppliers in either 1994 or 1995.
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GSA Gold Rush Redefines Roles for Integrators, Product Vendors
The General Services Administration's recent moves to reform its multipleaward schedule program has triggered a gold rush in the information technology community.
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Report cites 'serious issues' in DISA oversight
The Defense Information Systems Agency's poor oversight of the White House Communications Agency has resulted in poor acquisition practices and overspending by the WHCA, according to a recent report by the General Accounting Office. The GAO report describes procurement and spending problems occurri
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MasPar reborn as NeoVista
MasPar Computer Corp., which specializes in building highperformance parallelprocessing solutions in the federal market, is reinventing itself this week as NeoVista Solutions Inc. and bringing to market a suite of highend datamining tools for opensystems platforms. In shedding its old name, Ne
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AT&T brings Nimitz crew, families closer
AT&T Government Markets has developed an FTS 2000based interactive voiceresponse system that the USS Nimitz supercarrier used during a recent deployment to help close the information gap between the 6,000 crew members and their families. Capt. Alfred Harms, the Nimitz's commanding officer, said A
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Airborne ops centers to get $20M-plus comm upgrade
The Air Force plans to upgrade the communications systems on its fleet of four E4B Boeing 747 aircraft that serve as National Airborne Operations Centers (NAOC), under a $20 millionplus program that will see each of the planes equipped with advanced commercial switching and telephone systems. The
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Crisis Management Center gives safety a new look
When natural disasters this year paralyze movement by air, ground or water, it will be the new technologyfocused Crisis Management Center (CMC) at the Transportation Department that responds first. The center, at DOT headquarters in Washington, D.C., was established last month as a central command
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GRCI wins $30M National Guard Bureau contract
GRC International Inc. said last week that it has been selected by the National Guard Bureau for a contract worth up to $30 million. Under the pact, GRCI will support the National Guard Bureau, the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard throughout the United States, the Virgin Islands and P
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Capital planning guides to help agencies manage IT Investments
An ad hoc interagency group of senior information resource, executives has drafted guidelines for managing future technology investments that agencies will have to follow if they want their IT systems funded. Agencies that do not follow these guidelines "won't get money," said General Services Ad
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On the road with Microsoft's Windows 95
Over the last month or so, I have had a chance to use a Toshiba Tecra 700CT laptop.
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Budget woes may ground tower effort
The Federal Aviation Administration, faced with an uncertain budget environment, is once again cutting back one of its major air traffic control modernization programs. As part of its new strategy for Tower Automation, which involves replacing the hardware and software at select air traffic control
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Army unveils battlefield communications strategy
The Army has kicked off a multibilliondollar project to revamp its battlefield communications systems, a project that calls for replacing or upgrading virtually every piece of the Army's battlefield communications infrastructure, from cables to radios to switches to satellite terminals. The new Wa
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Mission control, mission impossible
This summer's Senate hearings on computer crime and the National Information Infrastructure are sure to bring even more attention to the problems of malicious hackers on the Infobahn.
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Secure Computing to acquire Border Network
Secure Computing Corp., maker of highend firewalls and security products, announced last week that it will acquire Border Network Technologies Inc., the secondlargest Internet firewall vendor in the world.
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FTS, RBOCs join forces to overhaul federal listings
The General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications Service is working with regional Bell operating companies nationwide to redesign the structure of federal listings in local telephone books and to include electronicmail addresses. FTS commissioner Bob Woods said the redesign will ma
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Insignia debuts new Ntrigue server software
Insignia Solutions Inc. last week introduced a new version of its Ntrigue application server software that includes new systems administration features and other enhancements that make it easier to deploy as part of large networks. Ntrigue allows Unix, Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh and Microsoft Co
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