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National Disaster Network Hinges on Data Sharing
The National Disaster Information Network, promoted as a network of databases to swap data related to natural disasters, will become a reality only when issues of access and data disclosure are resolved.
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Sprint's Teague resigns
Don Teague, vice president and general manager of Sprint's Government Systems Division, resigned from the company yesterday to pursue other opportunities, a company spokesman said today.
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ESRI Launches Community Development GIS Grants Program
Redlands, Calif.based geographic information systems company, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. announced a new program to make grants of software to help local governments develop programs to enhance the lives of citizens.
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GSA names Remez as chief knowledge officer
The General Services Administration yesterday said it would create the position of chief knowledge officer, an executive management post that will be responsible for tapping the agency's information technology to help employees access information for their jobs.
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E-Commerce: 'Dangerous Liaison' for Public Sector
Electronic commerce is the key to selfservice government and a threat to conventional tax and revenue systems for state and local government.
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Funding for Missing Persons Programs on Fast Track
A bill that would provide states $6 million over three years to update their files on unidentified persons overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives on Monday.
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Cohen lauds DOD acquisition reform efforts
Defense Secretary William Cohen yesterday launched the Defense Department's Acquisition and Logistics Reform Week, imploring DOD's cadre of acquisition and logistics professionals to take risks and be innovative in changing the way they do business.
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E-Commerce Groups Want Digital Signatures Recognized by American Bar Association
The ABA is nearing the last lap of its extensive efforts to overhaul the MPC, a set of procurement principles to which many state and local governments adhere.
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House passes bill to upgrade missing-persons identification systems
The House yesterday overwhelmingly passed a bill, known as Jennifer's Law, that would help law enforcement crossreference unidentified victims with files of missing persons within the FBI's primary national crimefighting computer.
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California Governor Won't Sell Wage Information
Despite a law passed last fall that would let California's Employment Development Department (EDD) collect a premium by providing payroll information to private finance companies, Gov. Gray Davis (D) late last week blocked the agency from selling any data.
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IDI gears up Portable-3
Hoping to catch the peak of the summer buying season as well as an opportunity to provide systems to U.S. forces slated for deployment to the Balkans, Intelligent Decisions Inc. plans to jumpstart its Army Portable3 contract as quickly as possible. Although the Army Small Computer Program Office
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Pen tablets show impressive tech gains
Somewhere between notebook computers and personal digital assistants lies the penbased computer, which allow users to run applications and enter information using a penlike stylus and a touch screen instead of a traditional keyboard. While passed over in the past by some IT managers because of a
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Dell expands offerings on its GSA schedule
Dell Computer Corp.'s General Services Administration schedule contract has been growing recently, and the company plans to expand its offering to federal agencies even further in the future. Last month Dell added Tektronix Inc.'s Phaser 840, 740 and 740L lines of color and colorcapable printers t
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Federal IT job overhaul overdue
At last, the Office of Personnel Management appears ready to tackle the government's perennially difficult and growing information technology worker shortage. It could not come a moment too soon. OPM sources say they plan this summer to revamp the way the government structures its IT work force to
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Federal Bytes
OLDBOY NETWORK STRIKES AGAIN. The Transportation Department received an 'F' last quarter on Rep. Stephen Horn's (RCalif.) Year 2000 report card, mostly because the Federal Aviation Administration was behind the mandated schedule for having all its missioncritical systems fixed. FAA officials rec
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Agencies batten down
A growing wave of hacker attacks on federal World Wide Web sites, including an attack that resulted in the FBI shutting down its site for more than a week, has raised agencies' awareness of their vulnerabilities and spurred efforts to increase their online security. As a result, agencies recently h
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SMS Data Products enters SAN market
Reseller SMS Data Products Group, McLean, Va., launched its entry into the storagearea network (SAN) market late last month with a solution that combines the company's disk storage technology with SAN management software from Transoft Networks Inc. The solution offers customers the option of buyin
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Florida Web Forum Points State Webbies to Resources
Florida's Web Forum will meet later this month to forge a dialogue between government systems administrators and World Wide Web designers and content developers across state agencies.
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