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Commerce: 1.3 million more IT workers needed
The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that between 1996 and 2006, the United States will require more than 1.3 million highly skilled information technology workers in core occupations such as computer science, engineering, programming and systems analysis.
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Commerce plans to go all-digital
Commerce Secretary Bill Daley yesterday announced that he plans to move the Commerce Department from a paperbased bureaucracy to an alldigital department in three years.
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DOD attacks encryption bill
Senior Defense Department officials yesterday launched a fullscale offensive against a bill that would lift all controls on the export of strong encryption technology, increasing the risk to national security from terrorists, drug cartels and other criminals, the officials said.
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Pa. operates Governor's School for IT
Pennsylvania has become the first state in the nation to operate a Governor's School for Information Technology, after classes began at Drexel University and Penn State University this week.
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PC Connection acquires ComTeq Federal
PC Connection Inc., a direct marketer of computers and related equipment, has announced plans to buy ComTeq Federal Inc., which sells computer equipment and services to government agencies.
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Hill gives $35M for initial IRS modernization
Congressional leaders today gave the Internal Revenue Service the goahead to spend $35 million on the first phase of its mammoth computer modernization project.
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DOD investigating computer 'mob tactics'
The Commerce Department today announced the winners of a massive governmentwide information technology services contract that has a primary goal of funneling business to small and minority businesses.
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OMB wants report on agencies' security practices
The Office of Management and Budget last week asked agencies to review their security practices and policies and report back to OMB within 90 days.
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Commerce awards mega-IT pact to support small, minority firms
The Commerce Department today announced the winners of a massive governmentwide information technology services contract that has a primary goal of funneling business to small and minority businesses.
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What are the rules on spam?
A private organization asked the following questions: What are the rules on sending bulk e-mail? What does Virginia's new anti-spam law provide?
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IRS' Prime can set an example
If ever written, the history of federal information technology projects would not be a testament to good management and efficiency. The list of overbudget, behindschedule and poorly performing systems is a long one. So it came as a mild but welcome shock when the General Accounting Office a
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SAIC to leverage Boeing fed work
Science Applications International Corp. has been busy buying up small technology companies at the rate of more than one per month since January, but it had not shopped in the federal marketplace until this month, when it announced plans to buy Boeing Information Services Inc. SAIC's purchase of Bo
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Switching to the fast lane
Because of their speed and simplicity, network switches are replacing hubs and routers as the dominant form of internetworking in localarea networks today. Federal agencies are making the leap away from hubs and routers to take advantage of new capabilities offered in the latest generation of netw
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GSA launches intrusion-detection net
The General Services Administration last week asked industry for information about emerging security technology for detecting unauthorized users on agency networks, with the goal of building a government intrusiondetection system by the end of next year. In building the Federal Intrusion Detection
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Gemplus tailors smart card for PKI
Smart card vendor Gemplus this week will unveil a smart cardbased security solution that authenticates users who access corporate networks and perform online transactions. The solution also provides tools to manage the cards. Extranets, intranets and virtual private networks are driving new ways o
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Report: Government must work to attract IT workers
Report released last week by the CIO Council argues that the government must do whatever it can to make federal jobs more attractive to potential information technology workers, but the group stopped short of recommending a separate government IT pay scale.
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Washington clears state programs for Y2K
Washington agencies are all but finished clearing state programs for the Year 2000 date change, according to statewide riskassessment report released last week.
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Unisys expands e-commerce site for fed biz
Unisys Corp.'s Federal Systems Division has revamped its 2yearold electronic commerce World Wide Web site known as Select IT so that federal buyers can access databases holding Unisys' governmentwide acquisition contracts. Select IT, which will remain part of the revised site, has served governme
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DOD debates GPS receivers
The details surrounding this spring's capture of three U.S. soldiers who were patrolling the border between Macedonia and Yugoslavia have sparked a debate among Defense Department officials about the usefulness of an information system that some say could have prevented the incident. After Serb for
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