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Georgia Registration and Title Information System (GRATIS) online
The Georgia Registration and Title Information System (GRATIS) went online Tuesday in participating counties.
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Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Nears Y2K Readiness
Officials at DallasFort Worth International Airport last week voted to spend $300,000 on a computerized airport lighting system to direct pilots to assigned runways, the latest move to ensure the airport has contingencies in place for the Year 2000 date change.
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California World Wide Web workflow company receives a state labor law ruling
A California World Wide Web workflow company has received a state labor law ruling that will enable its customers to deliver an entirely paperless payroll to employees.
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Insurance demo project spurs lawsuit
The major health insurance company in the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan is suing the Office of Personnel Management over regulations issued to initiate a demonstration project to allow some military retirees into the program. Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association said the regulations illega
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Candle tool monitors thin-client apps
Candle Corp. this week will announce a management tool designed to monitor the performance of applications running on Microsoft Corp. Windows NT servers in thinclient computing environments. The new release of EndtoEnd Watch (ETEWatch) gives information systems managers a tool to measure the res
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How does a revolving fund work?
The following discussion continues the topic of interagency transactions raised in my previous column [FCW, Aug. 23]. Many government agencies are authorized to use revolving funds to support specific operations. Agencies have the authority to use these funds without regard to fiscalyear limitatio
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Federal Bytes
LET'S PLAY FOLLOW THE EMAIL. A recent experience with the Air Force and General Services Administration may indicate that technology has become an integral part of the way government does business, but not much else has changed. When a reporter last week requested information on an Air Force contr
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Virtual Ink makes note-taking a science
This probably has happened to everyone: You sit through a meeting or lecture and attempt to furiously copy notes and diagrams, only to find that you either missed parts of the lecture or your notes are incomplete.
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OMB: Agencies improve financial reporting
Agencies are expected to perform better than ever in their financial reporting to Congress, but federal managers still must improve key areas, including using more commercial financial management systems and modernizing financial practices with electronic commerce, according to a report issued last
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Agenda
89 InfowarCon '99. Hyatt Regency Crystal City. Arlington, Va. The conference's theme is 'Options, Directions and Solutions for Defending Private and Government Infrastructures,' and includes optional workshops on Sept. 7 and 10. For information, call (508) 8797999; Web, www.infowar.com/conf/conf.
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Roster
Air Force Lt. Gen. Leslie Kenne in June replaced Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish as the commander of the Electronic Systems Center at WrightPatterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Kenne, the former director of the Joint Strike Fighter program, is the first woman to be promoted to threestar general in the Air Forc
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Loran upgrades network management
Loran Technologies Inc. next month will release a new version of its network management system that will provide advanced framerelay diagnostics, a high degree of integrated automation and a function called active reporting. The latter enables users to launch tasks to fix network problems that a s
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CIO Council adopts rules to fight software piracy
The CIO Council has voted to adopt a set of guidelines that would help agencies prevent employees and private government contractors from illegally pirating computer software. The governmentwide policy, which was approved Aug. 24 by a nearunanimous vote, gives federal chief information officers th
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Intercepts
Montgomery, Ala. Frye Hanging In. The Interceptor mobile unit spent last week here focused on the Air Force Information Technology Conference (AFITC). It was hosted by the Air Force Standard Systems Group, which is headed by Robert Frye. Frye debunked reports from inside the Beltway (ITB) that he
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Veteran-owned firms benefit from new law
President Clinton signed into law late last month legislation that should help expand federal government business opportunities for the millions of veteranowned small businesses across the country. The Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999 is designed to help veteran
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Next State and Local Internets
It may not be Walt Disney World's Epcot Center, but in time the Internet2 Studio in Richmond, Va., might draw enough visitors to make it a favorite among the Virginia capital's many attractions. The 2,000squarefoot glassplated studio is a showcase for advanced networking technologies. The applic
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Speech recognition: The talk of the town
Speech recognition has had a tough decade. With such popular images as Star Trek's chatty computers to compete against, the realities of speech recognition long system training time, the need for discrete word input and high error rates have limited the market to early adopters. Although speech
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Realizing a vision
Ask the Commerce Department's Karen Hogan what event spawned her successful career in government, and she will tell you about the career paper she had to write as a 10thgrade student in Virginia Beach, Va. 'I was trying to figure out what career to research, and my mom suggested library science so
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Industry Watch
Anteon expands ERP consulting Anteon Corp. has announced an expansion of its enterprise solutions consulting unit ahead of an expected growth of enterprise resource planning (ERP) packages in the federal market. The expansion follows plans announced by the General Services Administration's Federal
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