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Critics: U.S. Y2K travel reports lack detail
The Federal Aviation Administration has backed off its commitment to use the Global Positioning System as the primary means of commercial and private aerial navigation within U.S. airspace in favor of retaining ground-based navigation systems.
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Australia deploys GPS for pinpoint landings
Australia will become the first country worldwide to use the $10 billion, U.S.built Global Positioning System to help aircraft make precision landings when it inaugurates next month an enhanced GPSbased landing system on tiny Norfolk Island, 938 miles east of the Australian continent.
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New England Online launched
The New England Board of Higher Education launched New England Online last week, with the intention of providing the sixstate region with a centralized presence on the Internet.
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Virginia colleges use new info access tool
The Virginia Community College System will be using a new integration software tool to provide students, faculty and staff with access to information and services via the Internet.
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NIST to offer workshops on security issues
State Department officials today released a series of reports that outline for worldwide travelers potential Year 2000 problems in foreign nations, but critics say the reports lack detail.
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NOAA awards contract to better predict severe weather
State Department officials today released a series of reports that outline for worldwide travelers potential Year 2000 problems in foreign nations, but critics say the reports lack detail.
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IBM to develop tax system for California
California's Franchise Tax Board has tapped IBM Corp. to develop a tax system that will help the state collect $30 million in revenue lost annually because of missing income tax returns.
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Report shows that credit agencies behind tech curve
A new study concludes that federal credit institutions, such as the Federal Housing Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs' loan program and the Rural Housing Service, face a tenuous future because they are not using new technologies that have been embraced by privatesector lenders. Ne
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Agenda
SEPTEMBER 1315 Defending Cyberspace '99. Hyatt Crystal City. Arlington, Va. A forum for government workers who are charged with enacting advanced security and payment systems, this conference offers a comprehensive educational seminar program and exhibition featuring the latest information and e
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Administration gets B-minus for Y2K
Despite the progress the Clinton administration has made in fixing computers for the Year 2000 date change problem, the federal government is critically behind in ensuring that federal services administered on the state level will continue uninterrupted next year, Rep. Stephen Horn (RCalif.) said
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Delano e-business tool makes e-mail a solid development platform
When you think of building a World Wide Web application, chances are you don't think about building it around email. Nevertheless, Delano Technology Corp.'s eBusiness Interaction Suite takes the reliable infrastructure of email and turns it into a fullfledged applicationdevelopment platform. A
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GSA awards first PKI pact
The General Services Administration last week awarded the first in a series of contracts for publickey infrastructure services and products that will provide a way for all federal agencies to conduct business securely via the Internet. GSA awarded Digital Signature Trust Co. a contract under the A
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Performing a critical duty
Two weeks into his new job, John Tritak faced something that most government employees spend a lifetime avoiding: a congressional committee demanding answers. Tritak became the new director of the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office in July, just as a national newspaper reported that the CIAO'
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FGIPC looks for change
James Buckner, president of the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils, said a FGIPC task force this month began work on a project to determine how the organization can change to improve the way it achieves its goals, particularly in the area of IT education. 'I don't see any broa
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Linux grabbing more federal biz
Linux, the opensource operating system that for the past few years has been quietly gaining ground throughout the commercial world, has established a beachhead in the federal market and is poised to take over responsibility for some government missioncritical applications, according to industry a
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Kocher, Ballmer chart IT's future
The combination of the Internet and other technological innovations, such as advanced speech recognition, electronic paper and software that enables computers to see and learn, will fuel a dramatic shift in the next five years in the way the government and the commercial sector do business, accordi
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AF lab taps two under Answer
The Air Force Research Laboratory at WrightPatterson Air Force Base, Ohio, last month tapped two vendors for a broad range of information technology support services, replacing older contract vehicles with services available under a General Services Administration contract. With the signing of the
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Roster
Ed McManus, project director of the Thrift Savings Plan system conversion at the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center, recently was promoted to Senior Executive Service. McManus also is the Year 2000 project manager at the NFC. Ginny Caldwell, previously the financial manager for the Of
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Congress tying up loose ends of tech bills
When Congress returned from its summer break last week, in addition to incomplete appropriations business, lawmakers faced a stack of unfinished technologyrelated bills. Information technology bills on lawmakers' agendas include proposals to bolster federal information security and a plan for elim
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