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AWARDS
Systems Group Inc. A $10.7 million award for software development and acquisition process integration. Air Force, Asc/Pkwr Area C, Building 1, Room 111, 1940 Allbrook Drive, Suite 3, WrightPatterson Air Force Base, Ohio 454335309. Software Productivity Solutions Inc. A $600,000 award for domaino
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DISA to tap updated I-CASE pact
Once hampered by outmoded technology, the Integrated ComputerAided Software Engineering contract, held by Logicon Inc., is being revamped with new offerings and may be tapped as the key buying vehicle for commercial software products to be used in command and control systems. The Defense Informati
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Stalking the elusive Java
Java may be the future, but it's not yet the present at least, not on government Internet sites. Gateway Guide went on a hunt for Java applets on governmentsponsored World Wide Web home pages and came up with little more than the sites highlighted in the last issue of FCW [March 4, page 1]. Int
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Microsoft unit to receive support contract through PTO
The Patent and Trademark Office plans to award Microsoft Corp.'s consulting unit a solesource contract next month to support the company's current and future product suite. The contract will be open to other agencies as well as PTO. PTO's Microsoft Consulting Services procurement, a fiveyear task
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INDUSTRY WATCH
Corel Unleashes WordPerfect Suite Corel Corp. earlier this month announced the revised versions of WordPerfect and the other personal productivity applications in the PerfectOffice suite that it promised when it bought the applications from Novell Inc. in January. The application suite is now calle
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White House pushes PBO plan
Vice President Gore last week announced details of a plan that would turn some agencies into performancebased organizations (PBOs) operating more like commercial businesses and providing more flexibility in procurement and more control over finances and personnel. The Agriculture Department's Anim
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ROSTER
The Internal Revenue Service has appointed Arthur A. Gross as its new chief information officer, replacing Hank Philcox, who retired last year. Gross was selected as a result of a nationwide search. As the deputy tax commissioner for revenue and information technology with the New York State Depart
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INTERCEPTS
Exit Paige. Emmett Paige Jr., the ASD/C3I, has no plans on reupping for a second four years if Clinton wins the election in November. Paige, who spent most of his federal career wearing Army green, said, "I had more influence as general than as ASD/C3I.... I also had more fun as a general." Serg
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Catching up on some unfinished business
I have received a fair amount of correspondence recently, and I would like to respond to those letters that appear to be of broad general interest. One writer drew my attention to changes in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (which appeared in the March 1995 Federal Register that requir
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Hardware/software testing facility opens
The Army has consolidated eight laboratories dedicated to testing commercial hardware and software products into a new 42,000squarefoot building at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. The $4.2 million building officially opened last week. The new testing facility, the largest of its kind in the Defense Departme
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Worthy Idea, Worthy Cause I recently read Allan Holmes' article, "Clinton to expand computer donations" [FCW, Feb. 19]. My impression is that it is a worthy idea supporting a worthy cause. Here's a reality check for you, though. I am field manager for the Social Security Administration in upstate
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Digital extends Alpha line
Digital Equipment Corp. last week shored up its Alphabased workstation line up with new lowend and midrange offerings that could play a role on NASA's $1 billion workstation procurement and in other technical markets. Digital also unveiled a new brand of 2D and 3D graphics adapters including
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New guidelines help agencies tailor CIOs
The Office of Management and Budget plans to give agencies broad latitude to appoint new chief information officers so they can tailor the job to fit agency needs. Bruce McConnell, chief of the OMB Information Policy Branch, said an upcoming memo to agencies will describe the role CIOs should play
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GSA may break local service pacts in quest for lower prices
The General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications Service (FTS) may pull the plug on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of localservice contracts in instances where other firms can provide the service at better prices. FTS commissioner Bob Woods said GSA now holds contracts with
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1996 Federal 100 Winners
1996 Federal 100 Winners (Titles reflect positions held in 1995.)
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How does the Prompt Payment Act work?
The following topic was raised by a contractor: Our company has several government contracts. In general, the government pays our invoices within a reasonable time. However, an agency sometimes returns invoices for very minor clerical errors, delaying payment significantly. What are the government'
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Java to stimulate federal mapping applications
Federal agencies and geographic information systems vendors are exploring how Java, the hot software language for building Internetbased applications, might be used to open GIS to more users and create a new set of applications. "Java's really going to revolutionize how we interact in GIS," said
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FEDWIRE
FAA details freeflight commitment The Federal Aviation Administration announced last week its commitment to the concept of free flight, an air traffic control concept that gives pilots more flexibility in selecting flight plans. The FAA expects to move to free flight over the next 10 or so years,
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U.S. mandate: `move info, not people
TUZLA, Bosnia Soldiers from the 22nd Signal Command rush around the headquarters of U.S. ground forces to load a convoy of four heavily armed Humvees with one of the key elements of Operation Joint Endeavor: a package of preconfigured routers and communications servers for installation at one of
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