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Schools expect glitches from last-minute fixes
While the nation's education community is only minimally concerned about the Year 2000 problem, schools do expect some glitches, particularly because of the lastminute fixes many schools are making, according to federal, state and local experts testifying before a Senate panel Tuesday.
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DISA taps two for digital certificates
The Defense Information Systems Agency yesterday selected two vendors to supply and manage the digital certificates that provide the security underpinnings for several key Internetbased applications.
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State official object to weak privacy provisions
More than 20 state attorneys general last week were to send a letter to the House and Senat
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Communities get a C on Y2K report card
Organizations in 37 communities around the nation received an average grade of C on a Year 2000 community report card released by the Washington, D.C.based nonprofit organization Center for Y2K & Society.
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CDC and ATSDR Y2K-Compliant
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that it has successfully completed an endtoend Year 2000 test at the agency and at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and their partners.
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San Francisco gets new telecom, IS chief
Liza Lowery took the helm Monday as the director of the San Francisco's Department of Telecommunications and Information Services (DTIS), with the Year 2000 problem and a 911 project heading her list of priorities.
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Arkansas installs digital driver's license system
Arkansas has installed a digital driver's license system that makes the licenses more difficult to duplicate, and that will help law enforcement crack down on underage drivers as well as sales of liquor and tobacco to minors..
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CSC to acquire Nichols Research
Computer Sciences Corp. today announced plans to buy Nichols Research Corp., a defense and intelligence research specialist and systems integrator, in a stockforstock deal valued at $391 million.
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Navy Seventh Fleet undertakes Y2K landing exercise
The Navy's Seventh Fleet has kicked off an operational Year 2000 exercise on and around Okinawa with eleven ships and thousands of Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, which will conduct an amphibious landing with their clocks rolled forward to the new year.
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Eprise brings order to Web authoring
Most agencies and departments still are treating their World Wide Web sites as hightech bulletin boards, where data is simply posted by a Webmaster for general consumption. That's like using the telephone to send Morse code. If you want to explore the cutting edge of workgroup Web site authoring,
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IRS to request more modernization funds
The Internal Revenue Service next month plans to ask Congress for more money to begin work on specific projects for the tax agency's modernization contract. IRS chief information officer Paul Cosgrave said the agency nearly has completed its request to fund five business systems modernization proje
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DOT's George Molaski begins a third and final endeavor?public service
For George Molaski, the Transportation Department's first chief information officer, a job with the government seemed like the logical next step for someone who already had experienced life as a student and a businessman.
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GPS satellites live longer than expected
Nashville, Tenn. The Air Force Navstar Global Positioning System Joint Program Office has a problem rarely encountered in a society that treats many products as disposable items: The GPS satellites have a longer life span than anticipated, so the office will have to come up with a plan to take a
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NFC modernizes retirement savings system
The Agriculture Department's National Finance Center next month will launch an imaging system as the first step in an effort to modernize the system that processes the government's $82 billion retirement savings plan. NFC maintains the records and accounts of federal employees participating in the
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School violence simulation helps train police
The recent rash of school shootings nationwide has led a Seattle company to develop a computer simulation program to help train police officers on how to deal with potentially deadly situations on a school campus.
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FAA plans to expand GPS use
Nashville, Tenn. The Federal Aviation Administration has forged a series of agreements that will widen the use of enhanced Global Positioning System navigation aids into Central and South America as well as a vast swath of North Atlantic airspace extending to Iceland. Dave Peterson, director of
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Performance-based contracting out of reach
Performancebased contracting for information technology in the federal government contracting for results to which a vendor commits when it signs a contract has a long way to go. Although the government is making progress in asking for specific performanceoriented results, the typical requGMT
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What's involved in arbitration?
A company representative raised the following topic: We are a subcontractor on a large government contract. Our subcontract states that any disputes that we may have with the prime contractor must be submitted to arbitration before we can initiate a court action against the prime contractor. What p
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Round Two
An article on Page 26 of this issue, headlined 'Sharing map data moves closer,' has an incorrect World Wide Web address for the Open GIS Consortium Inc. The correct address is www.opengis.org. An article in FCW's Aug. 16 issue contained an incorrect phone number for Esprit Development Corp.'s Wipe
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