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Pentagon targets recruitment, high-tech training
The Defense Department is taking measures to ensure it attracts and retains the best and the brightest of the nation's young people to run the military's hightech systems
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Plan maps out Commerce's digital department vision
An intranet and new Web portal are key provisions in the department's effort to reduce paper and increase efficiency
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Budget funds benefits, IT training programs
The Clinton administration's fiscal 2001 budget would provide federal workers with a 3.7 percent pay hike, but the nation's largest federal employee union says it plans to lobby Congress for more
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Dot-com attacks seen as wake-up call for feds
Recent denialofservice attacks against Yahoo, eBay, ETrade and buy.com have created a sense of urgency throughout the government to move forward with its critical infrastructure protection plan
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Justice to pull stakes in Dallas
One of the agency's data centers will move to Clarksburg, W.Va., to be closer to the home base
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ZENworks 2.0 brings desktop control closer
The primary mission of products like ZENworks 2.0, Novell Inc.'s latest systems management platform, is to provide a way for IT staff to manage PCs without leaving their desks. That saves time and money because support staff members can do their jobs more efficiently.
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Motorola, Sun to work on Army's next-generation architecture
'Sun's Jini and Java technologies will be used to revolutionize access to C4I information
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Experience versus training
A new bill introduced by Rep. Tom Davis would require federal contracting officers to look more closely at the experience level of government IT services contractors
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Windows 2000 Professional: a more manageable desktop
As the desktop component of the new Microsoft Corp. operating system, Windows 2000 Professional provides some nice enhancements over Windows NT Workstation 4.0.
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NGA report: Telecom taxes 'burdensome'
Gov. Leavitt proposes a 'radical simplification' of state and local taxes
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Intelligence, logistics placed under microscope
The war in Kosovo uncovered a mixed bag of successes and needed improvements in the Pentagon's intelligence and deployment planning operations
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Electronically filing taxes made 'comfort-able' for Texas town
Microsoft chooses small town to try out its new software for filing personal income taxes
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Survey details federal CIO concerns
'Critical infrastructure protection and security' is the top concern for government CIOs, according to the Information Technology Association of America
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Report sheds light on NATO's high-tech problems in Kosovo
The Pentagon's final report to Congress on the air war in Kosovo unearths NATO information technology shortfalls that forced the U.S. to bear much of the combat burden
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SAIC wins $271 million Army IT job
The 10year contract will provide a wide range of IT support services to more than 450 information systems at the Army's personnel command
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Iowa working on statewide distance learning
The state's Office of Information Technology Services recently developed two requests for information for the creation of a system to allow people to learn from home
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Pentagon budget guided by Kosovo lessons
The Defense Department's final After-Action Report to Congress on the 78-day air war in Kosovo describes a pressing need for future IT investments
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DOD puts small-business breaks on hold
Agency's 1999 contract record allowed the suspension of the adjustment policy for the second year in a row
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Customers determine software packages
I think you all are missing a big, big issue here [FCW, What's it worth to you? Dec. 20, 1999, response to Microsoft, Lotus battle hits Marines, Dec. 6, 1999]. That issue is what software package does the agencies' customers use and demand. This may be even more important than what the internal standard should be. For example, if the Marines are forced, due to some lowball tactics to purchase the Lotus SmartSuite, and all their customers are demanding Office 2000, then each workstation will be forced to have both packages installed. That's not much of a bargain either.
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