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Nets aid Kosovo force
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to insert rapid, highpower, commercial communications links in Kosovo and Macedonia to extend the Defense Department's longhaul communications network to support the peacekeeping effort in the Balkans. The U.S. European Command (Eucom) also has started
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OMB stresses Y2K contingencies
Acknowledging that most of the federal government's missioncritical computer systems will be ready for the Year 2000, the Office of Management and Budget has shifted its Year 2000 oversight focus to just a few systems and to agencies' contingency plans, according to the latest quarterly report on
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Some Good News, Some Bad for States in OMB Y2K Report
A new White House report blesses states' progress on the Year 2000 problem, but the report is based on data gathered three to six months ag
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EPA beefs up supercomputing power for weather research
A new supercomputer purchased by the Environmental Protection Agency will be dedicated to research on air quality, helping the agency to carry out the Clean Air Act. The $6.8 million Cray T3E supercomputer from Silicon Graphics Inc. is a workhorse system for environmental applications, said David B
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Telecom next wave in outsourcing
Network management, which most federal agencies have handled with inhouse resources, may be the next candidate for largescale outsourcing as a number of agencies have confirmed they are considering turning the job over to telecommunications carriers. Departments with huge telecommunications infra
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Hot Iron Awards brand best buys
AIM Technology last week presented its Summer '99 AIM Hot Iron Awards during the GovTechNet International trade show in Washington, D.C. The AIM Hot Iron Awards, presented twice a year, are based on an array of systemlevel performance tests that are designed to closely model reallife computing en
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Federal Bytes
SEAT MANAGEMENT: YEAH, BABY! The General Services Administration's Seat Management contract may never achieve the popularity of 'Star Wars.' But the program drew a comparison to 'Austin Powers' last week. Federal agencies' reaction to the Seat Management desktop outsourcing contract has been as div
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Interior challenges news report
It's like the Wild West on the Internet frontier, Interior Department Webmaster Stephen King says. Not surprisingly, the vast and relatively lawless terrain of the World Wide Web isn't without its rhetorical gunfights. Consider a recent skirmish between the department and The Washington Post. A Pos
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Clarke leaves IT legacy at DOD
This weekend, as Army Col. John Clarke begins to ease out of federal service and into civilian life, he'll be doing something that he finds very familiar: building and repairing things. In this case, the things will be houses in Appalachia. Clarke will be pitching in for an entire week on a service
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Intercepts
A REAL ASD/C3I AT LAST? The White House, freed of the pesky distractions of the past year (Monica, impeachment, etc.), has finally nominated Art Money, the longestterm senior civilian official in history, as assistant secretary of Defense for command, control, communications and intelligence. If e
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Roster Change
Anthony Galante, chief information officer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will retire from government service at the end of this month. Stuart Reiter, who joined the agency last month as deputy CIO, will be named CIO. Reiter previously worked as director of infrastructure services for IMC Gl
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Networking, security take center stage at GovTechNet
Network technology took center stage at the GovTechNet International Conference and Exposition last week, as industry vendors introduced or previewed a slew of products designed to ease data communications in the office and in the field. Other announcements include encryption technology for recorda
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LOC preps expanded digital learning center
The Library of Congress today officially will open a remodeled learning center to be used primarily to train teachers how to use the library's digitized historical collections posted on the World Wide Web. Renovations made to the National Digital Library Learning Center, formerly the Digital Librar
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HCFA joins desktop outsourcing ranks
The Health Care Financing Administration last week awarded a task order to Boeing Information Services Inc. to provide turnkey desktop computer services, adding momentum to the federal government's fledgling seat management initiative. The $50 million, threeyear pact, awarded off the Outsourcing D
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Round Two
In our review of 500 MHz Pentium IIIs [FCW, June 14], the IBM Corp. machine tested should have been identified as the PC 300 PL.
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N.C. official wants DOD to help states with PKI
A North Carolina official this month called for the Defense Department to assist states with developing a secure publickey infrastructure to support state and local electronic commerce efforts. Jane Smith Patterson, senior adviser to the governor of North Carolina for science and technology, said
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MCI adds features to FTS 2001
At last week's GovTechNet International Conference and Exposition, MCI WorldCom Government Markets announced the first in a series of features it will add to its FTS 2001 telecommunications contract. Chuck Brock, deputy director of MCI's FTS 2001 program office, said the modifications will provide
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AGENDA
JUNE 1999 2122 Time and Frequency Seminar. The Broker Inn. Boulder, Colo. The seminar will present techniques related to the analysis and evaluation of oscillators and frequency standards. Call (303) 4975453; Web, www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/ seminar/seminar.htm. 2124 Energy Department 1999 Teleco
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CKO: A welcome addition
When Congress passed information technology procurement and management reforms, the idea was to push stodgy federal IT managers to think out of the box about how IT could support agencies' missions. Many agencies certainly have taken the reforms to heart, with the latest change coming in the form o
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