Modernization
GAO: Keep FTS exclusive
The General Accounting Office warned last week that opening the government's longdistance business to further competition might cut into revenues promised to FTS 2001 contract holders Sprint and MCI WorldCom and might possibly make the government liable for the difference.
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U.S. preps GPS defense
The United States is gearing up to protect its turf at the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference next month. At the last conference in 1997, it nearly lost hold of the radio spectrum used for satellite navigation systems.
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DTS test flight ready
An early version of the Defense Travel System that will be available to selected personnel this summer won't be connected to the system's central database or Defense Department accounting systems, but it will bring DOD one step closer to automating its travel operation.
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DOD Opens Up
The other federal agency that faces seemingly infinite amounts of data is the Defense Department. Much of it is classified and kept tightly tucked away, but some of it is made public.
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Millennia Lite contracts awarded
The General Services Administration awarded the first information technology support services contracts under the Millennia Lite program.
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Networking at NSF
Leaders at the National Science Foundation have decided that the best way to support research and technological development at universities nationwide is to apply information technology at home.
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Fed records for dummies
With a federal court ruling pending, the Office of Management and Budget has written new rules telling federal agencies to do a better job of making agency information including electronic documents available to the public.
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A window to agency knowledge
Enterprise information portals are helping make government smarter
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GSA to put portals to work
With access to more than 1 million products ranging from paper clips to tractors, GSA Advantage is truly a shopper's delight. The downside is that this virtual shop can easily overwhelm its many users.
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The Circuit
Proving there's no business like CIO business, 14 of the government's top information technology managers performed a sharply clever spoof of the 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' show April 19 during the otherwise techy FOSE trade show.
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IBM speeds up DB2 database
IBM Corp. recently introduced the latest version of its DB2 database, which now comes with builtin decisionsupport features and key enhancements designed to speed up its performance with World Wide Webbased applications.
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Features of the Saba Learning Network Solution
Sets skill and certification requirements for each role in the organization.
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ADIC fuses disk and tape
One of the downsides of using storage devices that attach directly to a network is that the data typically resides on one of the most expensive types of storage media: magnetic disk. Advanced Digital Information Corp. last week introduced a networkattached storage (NAS) appliance that tries to mitigate that cost issue with a system that combines disk storage with a lowcost tape library system.
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Research and Development in the FastLane
By October, the National Science Foundation hopes to have all of its research proposals submitted and processed electronically through a system called FastLane.
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OMB: No call for IT czar
As the notion of naming an information technology czar gains ground, resistance may be rising among the wouldbe sovereign's closest subjects.
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