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IT head moves Courts into next century
Although she did not know it at the time, Pamela White, assistant director of the Office of Automation and Technology at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, started carving out her information technology career when she performed a cost/benefit analysis on a Justice Department automation
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Data center directors balk at A-76 revision
Federal data center directors are objecting to the recent revision of an Office of Management and Budget policy that makes it easier for federal agencies to outsource data center operations and other activities. The revised Circular A76, "Performance of Commercial Activities," modifies or elimin
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NLM launches effort to link hospitals, clinics
In what could be one of the largest civilian telemedicine efforts to date, the National Library of Medicine this week will launch a program to determine how highspeed telecommunications networks can support the electronic exchange of health care data. NLM will issue a request for proposals for its
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FAA nixes $400M OATS follow-on
The Federal Aviation Administration, recently cut loose from federal procurement regulations, is taking advantage of its newfound freedom by canceling a planned $400 million office automation buy. The FAA Computer Technology Systems (FAACTS) program, on hold for several months, was planned as an i
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Code analysis tools and services abound for feds
Federal agencies have limited time to fix the year2000 problem, but they have no shortage of specialized software tools and service providers from which to choose. The number of vendors specializing in finding and fixing daterelated computer code has ballooned to more than 100, according to some
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Firms tout Web as workflow solution
CHICAGO Vendors of workflow and document management software exhibiting here at the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) trade show have embraced the Internet as the future infrastructure for business process automation. New products from nearly every major imaging vendor empl
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INTERCEPTS
NTOPS ahoy! The Naval Information Systems Management Center definitely plans to award its longawaited, $170 millionplus desktop and portable PC contract on Thursday. If the NTOPS award date slips yet again, NISMC boss Rear Adm. James Davidson promised to buy the Interceptor a drink. I hope Davids
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AWARDS
ASAP Software Express Inc. An $889,886 award for Microsoft Select 3.0 software. Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, M:P:I:E, Seventh Floor, 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, Md. 20745. Science Applications International Corp. An $880,414 award for information systems engineering. Navy, NCC
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NIST stumps for federal security team
The National Institute of Standards and Technology will form a new security team to help guard against and respond to Internet breakins at civilian agency sites, under a plan being considered by the Government Information Technology Services (GITS) Working Group. The new security group would respo
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FEDERAL BYTES
The Only Way You'll Get to Saturn Maybe you can't fly to Saturn, but your signature can. About a million digitized signatures, captured on a CDROM or other digital media, will fly aboard the Cassini mission to Saturn in October 1997. Volunteer members of the Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif.,
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Geography no safeguard against information warfare
It's midspring in the year 2000. In the midst of yet another crisis in the Persian Gulf, Americans wake up to find out that war has hit the shores of their country for the first time since the Civil War. CNN reports that a logic bomb has been placed in the computer system controlling the Northeast
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FEDWIRE
SRA nabs $18.6M Courts buy The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has awarded SRA International Inc. a fiveyear Judiciary Systems Analysis and Programming Support Services pact, estimated at $18.6 million. SRA will provide the AOUC and the Judiciary with automation support services. Team mem
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Loral lands $113M battlefield simulation pact
Loral Federal Systems knocked off teams led by Hughes Training and TRW Inc. to win a $113 million Army contract to develop advanced simulation technology that will train warfighters for battlefield and peacekeeping missions. The Warfighter Simulation (Warsim) 2000 program will give Army commanders
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IWS/LAN delayed again
The Social Security Administration has once again delayed the award of its $1.1 billion Intelligent Workstation/LocalArea Network contract. Citing advancements in computer technology, SSA last week said it will now award the contract in June. The agency had hoped to award IWS/LAN this month. SSA r
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Two firms win DUATS
The Federal Aviation Administration last month awarded fiveyear contracts to incumbents GTE Information Systems and Data Transformation Corp. to continue operating the Direct User Access Terminal Service. DUATS gives general aviation users free access to weather information via modemequipped PCs.
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Lotus merges imaging product with Notes
CHICAGO Lotus Development Corp. announced at the Association for Information and Image Management trade show earlier this month its plan to fully integrate Lotus Notes:Document Imaging (LN:DI) into the latest version of Lotus Notes. In addition, Lotus said it has begun to ship an application tha
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DOD unveils first RFP for med facilities bridge buy
The Defense Department this month issued a solicitation for a $56 million acquisition that will serve as a bridge between the current Composite Health Care System (CHCS) and the next generation of computers for military medical facilities. The request for proposals (RFP) is the first of three expec
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Sailing to the millennium
The socalled year 2000 problem and how computers handle the date change has placed federal executives in a managerial, financial and technological quandary. Most feds acknowledge the problem is big, but they don't know how big, how long it will take to fix and how much money it will cost. At
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Document management vendors pursue standards
CHICAGO Seeking to expand the market for their products, document management software companies plan to offer packages that meet newly proposed interoperability standards starting later this year, vendors reported at the Association for Information and Image Management trade show. Vendors and in
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