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N.D. Governor Asks for Help Attracting Tech Firms
North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer recently asked a privatesector advisory committee to recommend tax, investment and public policy ideas to encourage hightech investment in the state.
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Kentucky Offers Statewide Virtual High School
Starting in January, the Kentucky Virtual High School will become the country's first statewide program offering online high school courses and will include advanced offerings in foreign languages, math and science.
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DOD, GSA working on enterprise software contract
The Defense Department is working with the General Services Administration to create a standard contract that all agencies could use to create enterprise software agreements, which drive down the cost of software by allowing agencies to buy in bulk.
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SBA removes certification hurdles for disadvantaged firms
Companies that already have small, disadvantaged business certification at the Transportation Department now face fewer obstacles to gain certification from the Small Business Administration.
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Bill Streamlines Food Stamp Transactions
The U.S. Senate has approved a bill establishing national electronic transaction standards for food stamp benefits.
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West Virginia Gov. To Address Technology Council
West Virginia Gov. Cecil Underwood is scheduled to give the keynote address during the Science and Technology Advisory Council's second annual Mountain State on the Move conference on Tuesday at the Federal Energy Technology Center in Morgantown.
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New York to Bolster High-Tech Initiatives
New York Gov. George Pataki gave high tech a shot in the arm recently by signing into law J2K," a $522 million economic development program that benefits technology research and capital investment in business growth.
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Biometric solutions unveiled at Comdex
With the everincreasing need for security, many companies are turning to biometrics as a way to protect against the potential security breaches common with passwords, which can be easily stolen, lost or forgotten.
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Sniffer Pro hunts down network traffic problems
Even the Ghostbusters would have a hard time tracking down all the spooky problems that can plague a complex computer network. When the connection to your World Wide Web site smells like it has been slimed, it's time to call Network Associates Inc.'s Sniffer Pro. Protocol analyzers such as Sniffer
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IMC forms FTS 2001 task force
Technology officials representing a group of federal agencies last week announced they had formed a task force to help agencies make a speedier transition to a new governmentwide contract for telecommunications services. The Interagency Management Council (IMC), which represents telecommunications
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Final hours of the last MIAs in Vietnam
For most Americans, the war in Vietnam ended April 29, 1975, when the U.S. ambassador to Saigon officially evacuated his post. But for a small band of Marines, there would be one final mission.
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Sametime 1.5 moves beyond instant messaging
The advantages of an instant messaging system are obvious, especially in busy agencies where information workers spend most of their day in front of a computer, often needing to coordinate work with a colleague who may be thousands of miles away. Version 1.5 of Lotus Sametime expands on the theme o
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Software to avert airport delays
NASA and Honeywell Inc. have developed technology that may help prevent frustrating delays at some of the nation's busiest airports. Software developed by NASA, the Honeywell Technology Center and Honeywell Airport Systems solves a unique problem at airports that have parallel runways spaced as clo
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DOT, MCI team to speed FTS 2001 transition
The Transportation Department and MCI WorldCom last week agreed on a series of steps that would cut the agency's transition time to FTS 2001 in half. The deal was signed Nov. 10 by George Molaski, DOT's chief information officer, and Jerry Edgerton, MCI's senior vice president of government markets
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Army takes over Navy's mega-IT contracts
San Diego The Army plans to take the lead in acquiring highend computer systems and databases for the Defense Department and other federal agencies. On Jan. 11, the Army plans to release a request for proposals for the Army Small Computer Program's Mini Maxi and Database contract and plans to m
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Unisys Federal changes leadership
James McGuirk, the longtime president of Unisys Federal Systems, quietly left his post recently amid a top management shakeup at the McLean, Va.based firm.
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Databases don't always tell the whole story
The 800,000 tourists who visit the Korean War memorial in Washington, D.C., this year may be surprised to find out that the database at the memorial, known as the Honor Roll, does not represent the official number of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines killed in action during the Korean War.
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IT fills in puzzle of Korean, Vietnam War MIAs
For years, the remains of the last 13 men killed in the Vietnam War?immortalized on the bottom of the last panel of "the Wall" in Washington, D.C.?have lain unidentified on a table in a nondescript building here at Hickham Air Force Base.
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ESRI wins $22M mapping deal
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency took a big step toward standardizing on commercial mapping software by inking a $22 million deal with Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. for a host of electronic and geospatial mapping products. For NIMA, a Defense Department group that has relied
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