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FCW wins award for best government magazine
Federal Computer Week this month received a top award from Folio: magazine.
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Regulation would bar disreputable vendors from fed pacts
A proposed regulation that aims to protect the government from unreliable contractors is too vague and would hurt small businesses, senior government leaders told Congress last week.
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Commerce's CIO calls for federal IT czar
The Commerce Department's chief information officer today called for the creation of a federal chief information officer position to oversee, manage and provide a common vision for information technology programs governmentwide.
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Clinton signs defense bill, vetoes Commerce, State and Justice bill
President Clinton on Monday signed into law the $268 billion fiscal 2000 defense appropriations bill, which provides $4.5 billion more than he requested, and vetoed the bill that would have funded the departments of Commerce, Justice and State.
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Law enforcement tech funding OK'd
The House and Senate last week approved $250 million in funding for law enforcement technology as part of the $39 billion fiscal 2000 appropriations bill that funds the departments of Commerce, Justice and State.
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New Online Seminar Series for GIS Professionals Kicks Off Nov. 9
GeonetCom, a free online seminar series targeting professionals in government, telecommunications and utilities who are interested in learning more about geographic information systems (GIS) will hold its first session Nov. 9.
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Illinois Awards $75 Million Contract for Telecommunications Relay Service
The Illinois Telecommunications Access Corp. (ITAC), on behalf of the 75 localexchange carriers in the state, awarded a contract worth up to $75 million to Sprint for a telecommunications relay service (TRS) that will support Illinois' deaf, hardofhearing, deaf and blind, and speechdisabled consumers.
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AWIPS wins, Census loses in fiscal 2000 Commerce budget
The House and Senate last week approved the conference report on a bill that would offer critical funding for a highprofile information technology program at the Commerce Department. But the funds fall far short of President Clinton's budget request for the Census Bureau.
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Women Executives in State Government Selects IT Committee
Women Executives in State Government, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of cabinetlevel state government executives from across the country, recently named New Jersey chief information officer Wendy Raymer as the organization's chairwoman.
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FBI funding bill targets high-tech info sharing program
The House and Senate last week approved an appropriations bill that gives the FBI $20 million for building information technology systems that should enable its agents to more easily share information on cases they investigate.
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Toshiba offers consistency with new desktop, notebook lines
Toshiba America Inc. today released its Equium 7100 desktop PC series powered by Intel Corp.'s latest line of processors and announced that it is offering the Tecra 8000 series of builttoorder notebooks with Intel's new Mobile Pentium III 500 MHz processor and highcapacity hard drives.
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FEMA server managing hurricane data crashes
A server that the Federal Emergency Management Agency uses to process human services data related to the recent destruction caused by Hurricane Floyd crashed late last week. The agency brought the server back up during the weekend with minimal disruption to the relief process, according to the agency's chief information officer.
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Clinton, Congress get tough on USDA spending bill
President Clinton signed into law on Oct. 22 an appropriations bill that prohibits the Agriculture Department from buying new information technology systems or funding significant upgrades without the approval of the agency's chief information officer.
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Thousands of health devices not Y2K-ready
The General Accounting Office last week warned members of a congressional subcommittee that tens of thousands of biomedical devices remain at risk for failure because of Year 2000 problems, and manufacturers and health care providers lack detailed information on critical life-support systems currently in use.
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Illinois Attorney General Files Suit Against Four Online Pharmacies
Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan last week filed lawsuits against four outofstate Internet companies for selling prescription drugs online without proper licensing, making the Illinois the third state, following Kansas and Missouri, to file lawsuits against online pharmacies.
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Pennsylvania Announces Lightning Manufacturing Project, Creation of 'Virtual Corporations'
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge joined representatives from industrial and technology companies last week in announcing the Lightning Manufacturing Project, which allows businesses to collaborate via the Internet as virtual corporations.
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FCC Makes Radio Spectrum Available for DOT's Intelligent Transportation Systems
The Federal Communications Commission last week decided to make a portion of the radio frequency spectrum available for the U.S. Transportation Department's Intelligent Transportation Systems operations, including communications between vehicles and electronic roadside systems.
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Marines say virus incident not an attack
The computer virus that found its way onto the network at Marine Cor
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House subcommittee enhances computer security bill, NIST's role
Following advice from federal and industry experts, a House subcommittee on Wednesday expanded the role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in helping to secure federal information systems, requiring more testing and evaluation of systems and annual progress reports on agency security efforts.
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