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Pentagon issues final Y2K alert to commanders
With just eight days left before the longawaited Year 2000 date change, the Defense Department has issued a final alert to local commanders to ensure that they are prepared and has advised units overseas to be prepared for local disruptions, opportunistic computer network attacks and attacks by hostile forces.
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Joseph Leo appointed Agriculture CIO
Joseph Leo has been named the new chief information officer at the Agriculture Department, replacing Anne Reed, who plans to retire from government in February.
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Internet-based initiative to help cities get better deals developed
A .com startup has developed an Internetbased initiative to help cities get better deals when selling off tax liens by making it easier for investors nationwide to participate in the auction.
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Report: Pentagon's IT funding skewed
Despite consistent pleas by the Defense Department's top brass for more money to beef up significant shortfalls in modernization and readiness, the department in its fiscal 2000 budget used $1.2 billion from its operations and maintenance account to fund information technology systems development.
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Coast Guard gets tough on IT acquisition policies
More software monitoring systems and formal guidance are needed to keep the U.S. Coast Guard's Fleet Logistics System and other information technology projects in line, on time and on budget, according to recommendations delivered to the agency's chief information officer this week.
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Madison, Wis., School District Saves $25,000 with Free Internet Filtering
Madison, Wis., is the largest school district in the nation to sign up for free Internet filtering through Phoenix, Ariz.based Dotsafe Inc., in a move that will save the district more than $25,000 per year.
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Commission seeks answers to IT worker shortage
Providing technology training that prepares workers for new jobs in information technology may be one way to ease the growing shortage of IT workers, said the director of a federal commission created to help find solutions to the worker shortage.
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Va. City Hooks into Federal Network
The digital communications system that serves the Defense Supply Center in Richmond, and the U.S. Army's Fort Lee and Tidewater area Naval facilities, will soon begin serving the city of Hopewell, Va., the first local jurisdiction to join the federal network.
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Air Force taps five vendors for LAN/WAN deal
The Air Force Standard Systems Group on Wednesday awarded $140 million in blanket purchase agreements to five network products suppliers.
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Mississippi picks online training for educators
Mississippi's Education Department has selected Classroom Connect's Connected University as its online professional development program for educators.
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SSA ready for Year 2000
The Social Security Administration's 10year, $48 million Year 2000 remediation effort soon will be tested, and the agency's commissioner said Tuesday the agency has been ready for a while.
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Critical procurement system running out of headroom
The Defense Department's program for fielding the $326 million Standard Procurement System may soon come to a screeching halt at various Navy and Marine Corps installations unless a solution can be found for the system's skyrocketing storage requirements.
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Ohio County Police to go Wireless
Hamilton County, Ohio, has selected IBM Corp. to build a wireless networkbased application to connect its police department, court system and other offices so that paperwork no longer keeps police officers at their desks.
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Corel sues Labor Department
Corel Corp. has sued the Labor Department, claiming that the agency violated the Federal Acquisition Regulation by awarding a threeyear, $8 million contract for office software to another company without conducting a full competition.
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Pentagon confident Russian nuclear plants will withstand Y2K
The Defense Department this week delivered thousands of fire extinguishers and dozens of fire trucks, computers, printers, fax machines and mobile radios to Russia, where they will be used to bolster the safety of that country's nuclear storage facilities during the Year 2000 date change.
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Charlotte Eyes New Airport Security Tool
The Charlotte/Douglas International Airport will work with Spring Technologies Inc. to use iris recognition tools to control access to restricted airport areas.
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Industry profile: Keydata delivers
When the Food and Drug Administration announced that it needed 600 preconfigured notebooks with portable scanners and printers delivered to field investigators in five regions across the country by the end of November, a small Virginiabased firm jumped into action.
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Justice Department Grants to Combat Net Crimes Against Kids
The U.S. Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has awarded nearly $3 million in grants to 10 state and local law enforcement agencies to combat the sexual exploitation of children over the Internet.
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Wisconsin Goes Live With Benefits Application
Wisconsin this week debuts a Webbased application that eventually will give its 210,000 state employees much quicker access to information on their health insurance plans.
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