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Washington Gov. Gary Locke designated this week as Washington State Year 2000
Awareness Week to help the state's agencies and residents make preparations for the transition to the millenium.
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Justice taps Burek for senior IT post
Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. today appointed Linda Burek to head the Justice Department's information resources program.
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FCC Broadband Report Backs Hands-Off Approach
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday appeared to favor a handsoff approach in the broadband access debate when its Cable Services Bureau recommended that the FCC continue to monitor developments in the broadband industry and resist pressure to regulate it.
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Calif. Inaugurates Digital Signatures
Yesterday California officially authorized Verisign Inc. to begin issuing digital signature certificates to secure communications between state agencies and between the state and its citizens, ushering in a new era of electronic services delivery.
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New tool advances the art of screen captures
Running on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95/98 or Windows NT operating systems, CaptureEze Pro provides effective image editing tools. CaptureEze does not, however, deliver the breadth of tools found in Adobe Systems Inc.'s Photoshop, but it does offer a set of tools well-chosen for quick image manipulation.
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Panel explains gridlock at the nation's airports
A panel of aviation experts agreed today that air traffic delays are getting worse, but testimony differed sharply when it came to assessing blame.
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Congress cuts funds for life-saving radio
ongress slashed $20 million from the Pentagon's budget for a radio designed to help downed pilots stranded behind enemies lines call for help as well as automatically pinpoint their position and relay that information to rescue aircraft.
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NIH is first to move on ACES
The General Services Administration today announced that the National Institutes of Health has started development work on a task order under a governmentwide contract covering publickey infrastructure and security services.
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Technology gap threatens NATO alliance, Cohen says
Defense Secretary William Cohen today warned lawmakers that the air war in Kosovo revealed a growing gap in hightech command, control, communications and intelligence technologies between the United States and its NATO allies that could threaten the alliance's ability to respond to future crises.
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Army moving forward on logistics modernization contract
The Army plans to award a contract in early December to outsource the operation of a major portion of its logistics system, now that the service has cleared the last procedural log jam standing in the way of its $1 billion logistics modernization program
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Texas Department Selects Logicon for $80 Million Outsourcing Pact
The Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (PRS) has awarded Logicon Inc. a sixyear contract worth up to $80 million to manage its desktop computing environment.
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Maine Y2K Glitch Issues Vehicle Registrations for Horseless Carriages
A Year 2000related glitch in the Maine computer system responsible for issuing vehicle titles earlier this year designated 2000 model cars and tractor trailers as horseless carriages, a term reserved for vehicles from earlier this century.
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A portable CD-ROM drive to flip over
The MiniCD Flip is ideal for the notebook computer owner who does not have a built-in CD drive. It is ultra-compact and lightweight, weighing a mere 15.6 ounces (including the attached PC Card and cable). Moreover, it churns along at a respectable speed of 24X?more than adequate for performing software installations, running a CD-based program from the drive or simply using the built-in headphone jack to listen to audio CDs.
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California Senator Defends Vetoed Bill
The sponsor of a California bill that would have made it illegal for employers to covertly monitor the email of their employees said such a measure remains a necessity, despite a veto on Sunday.
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Maryland Center Hosts IT Town Hall Meetings
A Maryland technology training center (TTC) is hosting two technology seminars in the cities of Seat Pleasant and Glenarden that will feature demonstrations from industry giants Microsoft Corp., IBM and Bell Atlantic.
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OFPP upholds GSA policy
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy today overruled a protest by an association of government contractors that sought to abolish the General Services Administration's policy of allowing agencies to conduct audits after a contract is awarded and demand price adjustments.
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Miami-Dade CIO Formulates Countywide IT Vision
Randy Witt, who in July became MiamiDade County, Fla.'s firstever chief information officer, has made it his first priority to make electronic government technically feasible.
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Army mulls cutting tanks in favor of lighter, high-tech force
Gen. Eric Shinseki, chief of staff of the Army, today called for a major transformation of the Army within the next decade that could include an abandonment of all tracked vehicles in favor of a lean fighting force that relies heavily on command, control and communications technology.
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HHS completes successful Y2K test
The Department of Health and Human Services today declared several missioncritical computer systems ready for the Year 2000 date change, including systems affecting the nation's largest grant disbursement system, welfare and children's programs, and health services.
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