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Commercializing the Classroom
Despite billions of federal and private grant dollars spent to wire K12 classrooms and connect them to the Internet, few schools have the money for computers or the teaching tools to use on them. Indeed, on average, observers believe schools are finding it tough to drop below a ratio of 10 studen
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GSA, CIOs unveil training program
Next week the General Services Administration and the CIO Council officially will unveil a new training program for the next generation of program managers that emphasizes performance results rather than the minutiae of contract management. The Strategic and Tactical Advocates for Results program w
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GSA preps next award-term pact
The General Services Administration has stepped into uncharted procurement territory by planning to issue the first multipleaward contract using a relatively new form of incentive contracting. GSA is considering awardterm contracting as a way to enforce performance much the way award or incentiv
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Communities
Kentucky Virtual U. Goes Online The Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University, a consortium of the state's public and private colleges and universities, has created a onestop World Wide Web site that provides access to all the enrollment and student services needed to get a college degree online. T
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Microsoft to tailor support for DOD
Montgomery, Ala. Microsoft Corp. has proposed customizing a set of software support services for the Defense Department to ensure that DOD's systems stay up and running during a war, senior Microsoft officials confirmed last week. In an interview last week with Federal Computer Week, Microsoft pr
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Consider tech investment payoff
With Congress and the Clinton administration locked in a battle over science and technology spending, a quick review of recent headlines seems in order. The Army announced that it had spent $45 million to create a center at the University of Southern California to work with film producers and video
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How to give old PCs a new lease on life
Are you looking for a way to extend the life of your older Intel Corp. Pentium PC systems and make them Year 2000-compliant at the same time? These two tasks seem incompatible at first, but the FCW Test Center has come up with a solution.
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EDS' Newstrom takes HQ post Electronic Data Systems Corp. last week confirmed that George Newstrom, president of EDS' Government Industry Group, will leave his post to run the company's global government business from its Plano, Texas, headquarters. Newstrom will be succeeded by Bill Dvoranchik,
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Air Force unveils PowerPoint-to-Web technology
MONTGOMERY, Ala. The Air Force Air Armament Center has developed the World Wide Webbased Executive Management Information System, which enables users to post information directly to World Wide Web pages from Microsoft Corp. PowerPoint slides or Excel spreadsheets without first sending the data
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USPS targets online shipping market
The U.S. Postal Service has launched a campaign aimed at capturing more of the package business generated by the growth of online shopping. The campaign, which includes new services offered on the World Wide Web, is focused on USPS' Priority Mail service and involves the release of technologies dev
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Pacing Online Customer Service
When Tom Horley returned from vacation in early July, he had 700 email messages waiting for him, all containing questions or requests from users of Pennsylvania's official World Wide Web site. Horley, the chief of multimedia for Pennsylvania, said he would be able to answer the backlogged mail wi
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Russians ask for Y2K help with nukes
Russia lags far behind in its efforts to fix potential Year 2000 problems that threaten its command and control systems and nuclear warhead storage facilities, according to a Pentagon message that details high-level talks between the U.S. Defense Department and the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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Air Force lab to build intrusion-detection system
The Rome Air Force Research Laboratory last month tapped Litton/PRC Inc. to build a system that will collect information on cyberattacks or other unauthorized users throughout the Air Force as part of a Defense Departmentwide effort to stem the increasing number of intrusions into DOD computer systems.
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Texas General Services Commission (GSC) announced contract with AT& T Solutions
The Texas General Services Commission (GSC) announced Monday it had contracted with AT & T Solutions to design, build and operate the backbone network of TEXAN 2000, the state's centralized communications network.
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IRS creates new IT division
The Internal Revenue Service will open Oct. 10 an Information Systems Division to consolidate its information technology resources from IRS offices nationwide.
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Newstrom to leave EDS' Government Industry Group
Electronic Data Systems Corp. today confirmed that George Newstrom, president of EDS' Government Industry Group, will leave his post to run the company's global government business from its Plano, Texas, headquarters.
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Regional Council Holds Y2K Readiness and Coordination Exercise
The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) supervised a regional Year 2000 exercise Wednesday that was designed to test numerous worstcase scenarios for its partners in state, local, federal, utility and transportation agencies.
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New Alexandria, Va. Headquarters for National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) said it will open its new headquarters in Alexandria, Va., Sept. 8. The project was made possible by a donation of more than $5 million in funding and technology from Computer Associates International Inc.
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Feds not worried about Sept. 9 date problem
The federal government plans to do very limited testing'' of its computer systems as a practice exercise to determine potential glitches when the date Sept. 9 arrives next week.
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