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Document aids property management
A draft document from the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program may help guide agencies assessing property management systems or looking to acquire new ones
Modernization
DOD ponders DMS marching orders
The Defense Department in the next 90 days plans to conduct what officials described as a 'mass cutover' from a lessstable version of the Defense Message System to the latest release of the software, which Pentagon officials say marks a significant step forward for the beleaguered program.
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Document conversion II: ZyImage adds choice
ZyLab International Inc.'s ZyImage doesn't have the management tools and extensive scalability of Adobe Systems Inc.'s Adobe Capture (see Page 38), but it does deliver a very solid set of tools for converting documents ? both scanned and electronic ? into searchable text databases. What's more, the product's search and retrieval tools are very powerful and lightning fast.
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A site for happy landings
The Transportation Department hopes a World Wide Webbased travel and expense service will take some of the frustration out of the least glamorous part of travel filing for reimbursement.
Modernization
A case for Navy's intranet
Richard McGinn, chief executive officer for Lucent Technologies, has said, 'You either move with speed, or you die.' To do that, most companies use enterprisewide intranets, which enable workers to act quickly as individuals but with the added insight and knowledge of a team.
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Fedwire Briefs
An emergency spending bill that included nearly $100 million in new funding for information technology has stalled and possibly died in the Senate.
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Government Issue
Congress and some agencies are considering a bold plan to bring the concept of a digital government one step closer to fruition: Give each federal worker a computer.
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'A visionary with a blueprint'
Emory Miller has been around government for a while 33 years to be exact. But he still approaches his work with the enthusiasm of someone new to the job.
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Document conversion I: Adobe quickens Capture
Adobe Systems Inc.'s Acrobat Capture is a program with a very clearly defined mission: scanning hardcopy documents and converting them into searchable Acrobat Portable Document Format files that can be made accessible to users on a localarea network, the Internet or other media.
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Travel expenses made easy
The Transportation Department's Web-based travel and expense service will be connected to DOT's FedTrip.gov online booking engine, which the FAA is piloting.
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DOD orders remote recon to Kosovo
Faced with the prospect of more ethnic violence in Kosovo, the Defense Department last week dispatched several hightech reconnaissance aircraft and a company of longrange reconnaissance troops to act as the eyes and ears of the 5,900 U.S troops taking part in peacekeeping missions there.
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Win 2000 bug affects Active Directory
Users have uncovered a bug in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 operating system that could leave them without the ability to access or manage Active Directory
Modernization
FAA joins FTS 2001
The Federal Aviation Administration has reached an agreement with MCI WorldCom to buy telecommunications services through the governmentwide FTS 2001 program, potentially limiting competition on its own multibilliondollar telecom procurement.
People
BLM opts for cost-free digitization
The Bureau of Land Management may have found a means to convert its library of microfilm land records onto disk at no cost. Actually, the means may have found the bureau.
People
Calif. DMV chooses Micrografx for Intranet graphics
Deal will enable the state to make graphics-intensive documents available via the Internet
People
A vision for e-government
If we were to be realistic, a forthcoming proposal to give nearly every federal employee a computer and Internet access does not stand much of a chance in Congress. Bold proposals rarely fare well during an election year, especially when big money is involved.
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Laptops present major security concerns
Dave Nelson, NASA's deputy chief information officer, is like most federal managers when it comes to issuing agency employees laptops. Stolen data and lost laptops top his list of concerns.
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