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Imagery modernization gets boost
Despite the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's $1 billion plan to develop mapping and digital imagery products for the intelligence community, funding for NIMA's longterm modernization plan remains 'woefully inadequate,' according to a Senate report on the fiscal 2001 intelligence authorization bill.
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What is the Information Technology Research program?
The program (www.itr.nsf.gov) is managed by the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate. ITR supports fundamental research in information technology, encouraging research spanning IT and scientific applications and in social, ethical and work force issues. It responds directly to recommendations from the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee for basic research in software, scalable information infrastructure, highend computing and socioeconomic impacts.
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Will FTS 2001 unravel?
When the General Services Administration created the FTS 2001 contract in 1996, it did more than launch a simple contract for federal agencies it ushered in a new era of how the government buys telecommunications.
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HR services Web-enabled for government
A leading electronic government company has joined with a human resources service provider to offer Web-enabled government human resources applications
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Tally enhances tracker
Tally Systems Corp. recently introduced the latest version of its asset tracking software that gives information technology managers far more information about what's inside PCs that are spread throughout their organizations.
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IRS plans telecommuting pilot
The telecommuting project would allow some Internal Revenue Service employees to work from home several days a week
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GSA sets early accessibility deadline
Agencies should make their most popular World Wide Web pages accessible to the disabled by July 26
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Fighting computer espionage
In 1996, Congress passed the first federal law making it a crime to steal trade secret information. At the time, the sponsors of the Economic Espionage Act hailed the law as 'a significant bipartisan accomplishment' designed to protect many kinds of confidential information, whether maintained in hard copy or in a computer. However, the act's history shows it as more of a paper tiger than a major accomplishment.
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Air Force launches technology 'superstore'
The Air Force brought online last month its Information Technology Superstore, which offers Defense Department buyers access to about 70,000 items from about 10 different technology vendors.
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AT& T fighting to keep foothold
AT?#038; T may have lost FTS 2001 contracts to competitors Sprint and MCI WorldCom 18 months ago, but the telecommunications giant did not go quietly into the night.
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Work force watch
The General Services Administration has asked all federal agencies to make their most popular World Wide Web pages accessible to the disabled by July 26.
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Vendors bicker about control
Most of the major U.S. application and World Wide Web server vendors have licensed Enterprise Edition of Java 2 (J2EE) from Sun Microsystems Inc., the original developer of Java.
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B2G firm ready to rumble
As the businesstogovernment (B2G) ecommerce market heats up, NIC Commerce is trying to position itself in the middle of the action right where sellers and government buyers do business.
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Military salutes online auctions
Following recent Pentagon approval of online auctions for procuring supplies and equipment, the military services are rapidly adopting the new way of doing business.
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The call of the Web
With Web-enabled applications, cost savings is attainable at almost every stage of the development life cycle.
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GSA deal jump-starts information security
The General Services Administration last week awarded a task order for 500,000 digital certificates that will be given free to agencies in order to jumpstart the use of a GSA governmentwide information security contract.
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Java comes together
As government moves inexorably into the distributed computing era, two methods have found favor for tying new and legacy applications into a single enterprise environment: the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and, more recently, Enterprise JavaBeans.
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