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DOD accounting system off-balance, Inspector General's report finds
Longstanding glitches in one of the Defense Department's main finance and accounting systems have caused the Pentagon's financial managers to lose track of more than $1.8 billion during a sevenyear period.
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GovWorks forms civic partnerships
GovWorks.com, which helps municipalities nationwide provide online information and services, announced last week that it has formed partnerships with the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) to work on new projects.
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A clickable Army
The Army's top soldier plans what he calls a 'major transformation' of the service from a tankheavy force designed to fight the Soviet Army on the plains of Europe into a lightweight deployable machine capable of quick response anywhere on the globe, relying heavily on technology to cut the fat. G
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GTE wins $30M weather contract
The National Weather Service recently awarded GTE Information Systems LLC a contract potentially worth $29.4 million to build a more reliable and less expensive satellitebased system to disseminate weather information. GTE will beef up the existing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration W
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County close to $644 million outsourcing deal
In what would be the largest technology outsourcing pact among local governments, San Diego County is close to awarding Computer Sciences Corp. a $644 million contract to take responsibility for managing the county's computer and telephone systems.
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Letters
A balanced view of NTIS I am writing on behalf of all National Technical Information Service employees. We noted with interest J. Timothy Sprehe's commentary concerning Commerce Secretary William Daley's proposal to eliminate NTIS [FCW, Aug. 30]. We realize that the commentary most likely was based
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SI Outlook: CExec makes it big in government
IDG News Service For more than 20 years the small Dulles, Va.based systems integrator CExec Inc. has quietly maintained a steady stream of federal business, including contracts to produce passports and build networks for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This year, largely thanks to renewed feder
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Marine unit buys attack-modeling software
The Marine Corps' Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF), one of the Defense Department's leading antiterrorism units, recently purchased an enterprise license for one of the first software applications capable of modeling and predicting the impact of terrorist attacks involving nucle
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GAO: IT security law needed
Agencies have improved the security of many information systems, but the lack of clearly defined roles among agencies coordinating security has hindered federal security experts' ability to protect systems from intrusion, according to the General Accounting Office. Agencies have spent the past two
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State outlines response plan for world Y2K glitches
The State Department last week disclosed an elaborate plan to ensure that its embassies worldwide will continue to operate in the event of Year 2000related losses of power, communications and services in host countries. The plan lays out procedures to follow in reporting on the Year 2000 status of
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FedWire
VHA CIO joins private sectorDave Albinson left his position as chief information officer of the Veterans Health Administration Oct. 15 to take a job in the private sector. Albinson, who served as CIO for more than three years, is joining Universal Systems Inc. as a vice president to manage the com
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NIH inaugurates e-services contract
The National Institutes of Health last week became the first agency to turn to a General Services Administration contract for digital certificates as a way to secure electronic transactions with the public, giving the GSA security contract a needed boost. The NIH issued a task order under the Acces
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Software lets agencies limit use of data
Infraworks Corp. this month released a new product that will enable agencies to control how their information is used, even once it leaves their networks. While it has become commonplace for federal agencies to control the use of information within their networks with encryption, passwords or other
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DIA tackles flow of intelligence
On the afternoon of May 7, a CIA officer tried desperately to contact intelligence officials in Europe to alert them to the fact that the Yugoslavian military facility they had targeted was, in fact, located one block away from where NATO pilots were about to drop bombs. By the time his concerns co
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NWS forecasting hampered after supercomputer fire
The National Weather Service's central supercomputer used to generate weather forecast models caught fire and subsequently stopped operating late last month, forcing the agency to rely on backup systems and delaying delivery of data to users. NWS' National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP
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Intercepts
TRADOC Tanked? The Fort Eustis, Va.based Training and Doctrine Command, headed by Gen. John Abrams, could end up a big loser in terms of funding and personnel in the sweeping 'transformation'' of the Army announced by Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki last week. A knowledgeable Army Pentagon source sai
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Multiplying your power
Employing additional processors may seem like an obvious solution to those seeking to boost PC productivity, but getting real benefits from multiprocessing has proved to be difficult for vendors of machines that use Intel Corp.based chips. Because of some unfortunate twists on 'new math' that occu
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Civilian IT pay thwarts Army
The Army has kicked off an intensive project to determine how to better recruit and retain uniformed and civilian personnel in the highly competitive information technology field, with top leadership and soldiers in the trenches conceding that the Army cannot compete with the civilian marketplace i
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Florida IT task force meets
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's newly appointed Information Service Technology Development Task Force held its first official meeting Oct. 1516 in Orlando, Fla.
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