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Comptroller general wrong about fed managers
According to David Walker, comptroller general of the United States, the cornerstone of efforts to implement performancebased management systems within the federal government is the adoption of a results orientation. I could not agree more. If an employee comes in to work simply to put in his hour
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SEC accelerating file backup process
Within the next month, the Securities and Exchange Commission will make a major change in its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system, and if all goes well, no one will notice a thing. Working with Bell Atlantic Federal, the SEC is updating the way it backs up all the infor
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Apple Studio Display: Get the picture
In a style similar to Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh G3 computer, the Apple Studio Display arrives bearing the company's signature translucent blueandwhite shell. Its most remarkable feature, however, is neither its color scheme nor its spacesaving flatpanel design. What makes this display spe
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Braille-ready laptop hits fed market
With the government renewing its efforts to accommodate employees with physical disabilities, Advanced Access Devices, maker of laptops for the visually impaired, is planning a push into the federal market. Its product, called SuperBraille, replaces the traditional laptop display with a Braille dis
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EDS certified for security assessments
Electronic Data Systems Corp. has been approved to use an information security assessment methodology endorsed by the Critical Information Assurance Office (CIAO) to help federal agencies identify vulnerabilities in their computer networks. Agencies are turning their attention to security issues as
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IDI to field USDA laptops, desktops
The Agriculture Department earlier this month awarded contracts valued at about $18.7 million to Intelligent Decisions Inc. for laptops and desktops to support the department's program to field a common set of technologies. Under the three contracts, Intelligent Decisions will provide about 8,500 s
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FMC shifts contract filings to Internet system
The Federal Maritime Commission has decided to eliminate a dialup system that carriers have used for the past five years to file service contracts and change to an Internetbased system that will enable them to use offtheshelf software to file their contracts in standard word processing formats.
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Intercepts
WHISTLEBLOWERS AND MORTICIANS. In a letter to Defense Secretary William Cohen, Rep. Dan Burton (RInd.) recently accused some department apparatchiks of injecting partisan politics into the investigation of Peter Leitner the senior DOD trade adviser whose computer was ransacked as he testified b
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Environmental groups press EPA on info office director
A coalition of environmental groups has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to appoint as the head of its new Information Office the director of an organization that helps government agencies make public information available online.
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Texas Workforce Commission Creates Free Statewide Online Employment Service
The Texas Workforce Commission has launched a free, online jobmatching system, which already is receiving 50 new jobs and 200 new applications daily.
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Washington, D.C., Lottery's Network to be Upgraded for Y2K
The D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board is upgrading its computer network to meet Year 2000 compliance requirements. The upgrade, under a $5 million contract with the OAO Corp., began last month. It must be completed by Oct. 23 in order to meet the Multistate Lottery Association's requirement and Washington, D.C.'s own gaming guidelines, said Georgia Bailey, project manager at Greenbelt, Md.based OAO, an aerospace and information technology service provider.
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DeKalb County, Ga., Citizens Access Records, Pay Taxes Online
A new online services tool enables citizens and local businesses in DeKalb County, Ga., to use their computers to access property records, pay property taxes and receive an entire property history without having to go to the courthouse.
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CACI names Johnson president
Kenneth Johnson, a former executive of Cordant Inc., PRC and other Washington, D.C.area information technology companies, has been named president of CACI Inc.
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OMB refines Y2K reporting requirements
As the federal government heads into the final months of fixing systems for the Year 2000, the Office of Management and Budget has revised the requirements for the quarterly reports agencies file on their Year 2000 progress.
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Commerce to close NTIS
The Commerce Department plans to close the National Technical Information Service because its core function of providing government information for a fee is no longer needed, Commerce Secretary William Daley announced today.
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Feds launch Web sites to help drought victims
Commerce Department Secretary William Daley on Wednesday launched two Internetbased tools to help inform Americans who are suffering through the heat and drought.
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Clinton sets up group to find how to pinpoint illegal Internet activity
President Clinton on Wednesday set up a working group that will be made up of federal managers to study unlawful conduct on the Internet.
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Washington Transit Project Weds Information and Asphalt Highways
The Washington State Department of Transportation has struck a deal with Universal Communications Networks to install a $100 million fiberoptic backbone along the full length of three interstate highways across the state.
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NGA takes on teacher tech training
The National Governors' Association meeting wrapped up here this week with a session devoted to harnessing technology in U.S. schools. But the conversation quickly turned to governors' displeasure with postsecondary schools of education, which they said are graduating teachers with a severe lack of technology education.
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