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Publication aids CIO recruitment A working group of the interagency Chief Information Officer Council, chaired by Commerce Department CIO Alan Balutis, has developed a model plan for helping agencies recruit candidates for the position of CIO. The document, "Establishing and Recruiting a Federal A
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, named Dr. Ming Hsing Rosa Lee its senior/engineer scientist of the year. This award recognizes Lee's decadelong role in managing and developing the simulation software for the Ohio, Los Angeles and new SSNclass of submarines. Edward "Pete" A
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New systems unveiled at ITCA '96
Videoconferencing products introduced at last week's International Teleconferencing Association '96 show in Washington, D.C., ran the gamut from lowend, lowcost desktop systems to highend multipoint bridges. Cinecom Corp. introduced CineVideo/Direct, a lowcost, lowend Microsoft Corp. Windowsb
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Sprint to cut its rates
The General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications Service last week struck a deal with Sprint to decrease its rates on FTS 2000 and save an estimated $86 million over the remainder of the contract. John Okay, deputy commissioner of FTS, said those savings are in addition to an estima
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PACT contract goes to three 8(a) small-business vendors
The Federal Emergency Management Agency next month will award the $30 million Program for Acquisition of Current Technology (PACT) contract to three 8(a) smallbusiness vendors, who will compete for the quick delivery of desktop PC and localarea network products. Award winners are Government Micro
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Industry, IT execs leave long-held posts
A number of industry and agency information technology executives recently announced departures from longheld positions. William Hoover was named executive vice president of systems integrator BDM International Inc. and president and chief executive officer of BDM Federal Inc. He had been presiden
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Keane Federal Systems Inc. A $3.4 million award for systems and application programming support services for the development and maintenance of the Automated Commercial System. Treasury Department, Customs Service, Procurement Division, Room 4210, 1301 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20229
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Tech glitch shuts out Bosnia e-mails
Last week cartoonist G.B. Trudeau treated readers of his "Doonesbury"comic strip to a fictional Internet exchange between troops in Bosnia and the folks at home. "Doonesbury" depicted a fictional Navy Lt. Tripler, identified as a "NATO IFOR (Implementation Force) morale officer," effortlessly
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In Praise of DOD Modernization In my recent discussions with Elizabeth Sikorovsky regarding the size of the HighPerformance Computing Modernization solicitation/proposal, we did not discuss many of the reasons for its large size. Readers of the resulting article, "Nichols Research captures $159 m
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Feds turn to hierarchical storage management to migrate data
As the federal localarea network culture matures and storage requirements multiply, users are demanding automated storage management. Rising to meet the demand are new, integrated and robust hierarchical storage management (HSM) products that promise greater efficiency at affordable prices. HSM re
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Gerry Heller's company affiliation was misstated in the May 20 Tech Briefing on object technology. Heller is manager of the Software Technology Department of Computer Sciences Corp.'s System Sciences Division.
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Plan puts all employees on the Net by summer
The General Services Administration plans to make the Internet available to every one of its 15,000 employees by this summer, claiming it is the first federal agency to put every worker, regardless of grade, into cyberspace. In one of his first messages to GSA employees this month, acting administr
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Digital, HP nab $594M workstation buy
Digital Equipment Corp. and HewlettPackard Co. captured the Army's first major workstation procurement, a $594 million buy of Unix and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NTbased computers, software and peripherals. Army WorkstationI represents an important opportunity for both Digital and HP to gain shar
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20 companies to share $1B services prize
The Transportation Department, with the National Performance Review as a backdrop, last week awarded 20 contracts under a $1.13 billion services program, which it hailed as an example of "new" information technology procurements possible under recent federal acquisition reform. The Information Te
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FAA systems overhaul hoped to allow `free flight'
The Federal Aviation Administration expects to launch a large systems integration procurement this fall to overhaul the agency's air traffic management system and move the aviation industry toward a revolutionary method of air traffic control (ATC). The Air Traffic Management System Development and
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Sprint to offer ATM to NASA on FTS 2000
ATLANTA Apparently succeeding where its chief competitor failed, representatives from Sprint's Government Systems Division said last week they have negotiated a deal to offer Asynchronous Transfer Mode capability to NASA on the FTS 2000 network. Intense negotiations between Sprint, the General S
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Supporting risk takers
The announcement recently by the National Institutes of Health's contracting office that it would launch a large, multipleaward contract for services sparked a great deal of comment and interest from many parts of the government. To some, it represents turf encroachment. They worry that if NIH is
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The Reinventing Government Discussion List (REGOL), identified in the April 29 Gateway Guide, has been discontinued.
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Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski has been nominated for assignment as the Navy's director of space and electronic warfare. He now serves as director of command, control, communications and computers for the Joint Staff. The Pentagon has not yet named a replacement for him as J6. Charles Force has left hi
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