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Windows 95 installs easily?most of the time
I have installed Windows 95 on at least four machines and I've found that the install wizards are nothing short of amazing. No matter how hard I try to select or change what it has selected Windows 95 knows what it should have to work. It is rarely fooled by the more common hardware found in PCs pr
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Gateway 2000 unveils Destination presentation system at FOSE
Gateway 2000 this week will show federal customers its new Destination multimedia presentation system at FOSE. Destination is a 120 MHz PC that is packaged to serve groups of users instead of a single user. It comes with a Mitsubishi 31inch monitor, TV tuner, wireless keyboard and mouse, a sixspe
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Hughes, Sun win AF buy
The stage is set for fierce competition in the federal workstation arena with the dual award of contracts to Hughes Data Systems and Sun Microsystems Inc. under the $956 million Air Force Workstations I program. Workstations I will supply up to 37,000 portable and desktop Unix systems. Sun is offer
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ROSTER
Secretary of Defense William Perry named Margaret Munson director of the Defense Investigative Service (DIS), replacing John Donnelly, who retired. Munson previously served as acting director for counterintelligence and security in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Contr
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Also this week at FOSE...
Beyond PCs, this week's FOSE show will feature information technology ranging from human resources systems to database managers. PeopleSoft Inc. will demonstrate its Federal HR product, the first of a series of applications the vendor has customized for the federal market. The company started deliv
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Paralon offers encryption product
Paralon is offering a hardware encryption device that delivers governmentapproved Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption services without requiring traditional key management. Paralon's PathKey system encrypts data in real time between two users by generating a onetime random key for each comm
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Bill would merge statistical bureaus
The House is moving ahead with plans to consolidate the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis into a new independent Federal Statistics Service, although the move is opposed by the administration. The proposal, introduced by Rep. Stephen Horn (RCal
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MegaDrive inks fed reseller pact with EdgeMark
MegaDrive Systems Inc. has signed federal reseller EdgeMark Systems Inc. to carry its highperformance removable storage products. EdgeMark will bundle the storage gear as part of turnkey solutions based on Silicon Graphics Inc. workstations. MegaDrive markets five products that range in capacity f
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Who will pay?
Despite the scale of the problem, federal agencies cannot count on special 2000 funding to set things right. At DOD, Emmett Paige Jr.'s office has said that DOD agencies and the services must reallocate existing budgets. The services are acknowledging this reality. "Funding will come from other pr
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Campaign Web pages for the history books
Among other things, the Smithsonian Institution collects quilts, Dorothy's ruby slippers, old appliances and rare gems. Add to that list a new entry: Web pages. The National Museum of American History has announced Web Archive '96, a project to record and track World Wide Web documents relating to
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JetForm lands role on National Guard Bureau's RCAS
JetForm Corp. last week said it may sell up to 56,700 licenses of its electronic forms products under the National Guard Bureau's Reserve Component Automation System. JetForm will provide software, services and training to support RCAS. The software will be used to automate purchase orders, requisi
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Take Another Look at DISN As longtime fans and faithful readers of FCW, reading the March 18 editorial about the DISN program was, to be kind, shocking. Not because Federal Computer Week expressed an opinion. It certainly is entitled to one. Not even because we substantively disagree with FCW's opi
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DOD's C4 budget slides, IT remains the same
Belkis LeongHong, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for plans and resources, said the total DOD 1997 budget for command, control, communications and computers and information technology declined $100 million to $23.3 billion in 1997, from $23.4 billion in 1996. LeongHong said the IT budget re
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Editorial
The news that the District government has continually refused help from the federal government is surprising to those of us in the federal arena. It is unthinkable to reject help that can actually save money particularly considering the money crunch facing the D.C. government. However, to whatev
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Momentum builds for Pentium successors
Federal demand for the latest crop of microprocessors the socalled "sixth generation" chips succeeding the Pentium is slowly building and may experience its first surge this summer. The key competitors in this market are Intel Corp. with its Pentium Pro chip and Cyrix Corp with its 6x86 pr
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DOD rewrites book on IT buys
Secretary of Defense William Perry last month approved a major rewrite of Defense Department acquisition guidelines, completing an intense effort to streamline how DOD buys technology. The reform effort began in 1992 with the recommendations of the Section 800 panel and now includes guidelines to b
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Telos, ZDS ship dual Pentiums to Bosnia
Telos Corp. and Zenith Data Systems are shipping dualPentium 120 MHz servers, one of the most powerful PCbased servers available on a federal contract, to one of the most missioncritical users in the Defense Department: the headquarters of the Army's 1st Armored Division in Tuzla, Bosnia. Not on
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Year 2000 causes double trouble for feds
No one knows how much it is really going to cost to fix the year 2000 in millions of lines of government software. Pentagon estimates exceed $1 billion. Mitre Corp.'s report to the Defense Department on the problem said DOD may have to spend up to $8.52 per line of code checked. DOD may also have t
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GSA to add systems integration to B/C sked
The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service is expected to unveil this week plans to extend its 70 B/C multipleaward schedule program to cover systems integration services. The schedule will be broadened to include services such as analysis and design, installation, programming, c
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