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Commission Aims for Dialogue on Internet Taxes
When the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce meets June 2122 in Williamsburg, Va., commission chairman Virginia Gov. James Gilmore will focus less on finding a quick solution to the Internet tax question and more on opening up a national dialogue on the question.
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Interagency groups key to making IT work
In the wake of my retirement, I would like to share some philosophical thoughts with you and offer some feedback about what I have learned in my 30 years in the federal government, which includes more than 20 years in the information technology arena.
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Sub-$1,000 PCs defy expectations
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk While systems costing less than $1,000 have been available for more than a year, most government buyers have shied away because those machines lacked the processing power and capacity that agencies demand. Thanks to the Army's PC3 contract, open to all federal agencies
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THE KOSOVO COMM BATTLE. Now that the air campaign in Yugoslavia has ended, I anticipate a fierce ground war in Kosovo, with the combatants this time being the three major U.S. comm companies (and possibly European carriers) looking for a piece of the substantial network that will support a very lon
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Roster Change
De'Borah Applegate has accepted a position with the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service. Applegate will be an investigator for the Office of Management's internal control staff. She was a member of the security team in the USDA's Information Systems Security and Telecommunic
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Industry Watch
Intel unveils new processors Intel Corp. this week will announce its new Pentium II and Celeron 400 MHz mobile processors. Besides raising processor performance for the last time before Intel releases its Pentium III mobile processors this fall, the PII 400 is the first processor to use the 0.18mi
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Embracing change
When Jerry Agee was growing up near Roanoke, Va., one of the things he wanted most was to see the world. He has spent his career fulfilling his wanderlust. In 21 years with the Navy and 11 with TRW Inc., Agee, who was promoted last month to vice president and general manager of the company's Federa
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INS taps Logicon to assess development projects
Logicon Inc. last month landed an estimated $61 million deal to act as an independent auditor of work performed under a sprawling Immigration and Naturalization Service contract. The fiveyear blanket purchase agreement covers independent verification and validation (IV?#038; Amp;V) services for INS' Service
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Use rewards to extend vendors' pacts
Bob Woods, the longtime government information technology manager now working in industry, was talking with me recently about the need to have provisions written into government IT contracts that give better incentives for vendors to deliver results. 'I have a great idea,' he told me. 'It's like ai
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JUNE 1416 Beyond the Y2K Hall Pass Realizing the CIO Dream: It's Now or Never. Hotel Del Coronado. Coronado, Calif. The conference will provide insight on enhancing credibility and increasing business' understanding of their information dependency. Call (214) 4338803; Web, www.metagroup.com/even
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AF users say DMS is not light or lean enough
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany The Air Force's premiere communications unit in Europe recently rejected the tactical version of the Defense Message System because the 1,000pound package for unclassified and classified networks was too large to deploy. According to officials at the 1st Combat Communi
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State Official Looks to DOD for PKI Leadership
A North Carolina state official earlier this week called for the U.S. Defense Department to assist states with developing a secure publickey infrastructure to support state and local electronic commerce efforts.
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Search engine cuts through contracting material
Between now and July 5, state and local governments can access for free a new procurement search engine that cuts through the noise of government contracting material now flooding the Internet and brings back only those hits relevant to information technology buying.
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DOD may use smart cards as ID
The Defense Department's Smart Card Office is expected to recommend later this summer that all military identification cards be replaced with smart cards.
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SAIC to acquire Boeing IT services group
Science Applications International Corp. ended months of speculation today when it announced plans to buy Boeing Information Services, the Boeing Co., subsidiary which provides the federal government with information technology and integration services.
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Feds Might Create a New GIS Master Group
In an apparent aboutface on a proposal to revamp the way federal, state and local governments collect and share geographic data, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt this week told a House subcommittee that it should consider key points of a plan to create a new geographic information system coordinating group.
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DOE clamps down on whistleblower for security leaks
In the aftermath of what may be one of the most damaging cases of espionage in U.S. history, the Energy Department has placed a former director of security on administrative leave for blowing the whistle on lax security including failed computersecurity practices at a top nuclear weapons lab.
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Interstate public benefits program launched
North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer (R) yesterday formally unveiled Health Passport, a project to integrate multipleagency, multiprogram public benefits delivery across state lines.
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Cohen: Kosovo peace deal the result of business reforms, IT
As reports indicated that Serb forces were withdrawing from Kosovo, Defense Secretary William Cohen today applauded the role of technology and the Defense Department's business practice reforms in what he called one of the most extraordinary achievements in the history of air warfare.
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