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Report Offers Road Map To Digital Government
The Center for Technology in Government recently released a report funded by the National Science Foundation that details steps that state and local agencies will need to take to create a digital government.
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Virginia Holds IT Summit
Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore's Commission on Information Technology meets today to come up with recommendations on how the six regions of the state can work more closely to leverage information technology as an engine to stimulate and support economic growth.
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Educational Tech Will Be Hot in 2000
State and local governments are sinking funds into education technology, making ed tech one of the hottest markets to watch in 2000, according to figures released Tuesday by Federal Sources Inc., a McLean, Va.based market research firm.
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Wireless tech discussed in wake of Columbine
Role of wireless tech in Littleton, Colo., emergency response will be taken up this week.
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Agencies lay groundwork for intrusion-detection network
A group of federal agencies has completed the initial model of a governmentwide intrusiondetection network that will provide a common center for response to cyberattacks on agencies.
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Canton, Ga., Goes for Virtual Gov System
Expecting a population spike, an Atlanta edge city beefs up its Web presence.
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Software bundles biometric solutions
SAFLink Corp. next month will begin shipping a suite of software that brings together three kinds of biometric security technology to help organizations control access to their networks. The SAF2000 MultiBiometric Enterprise Security Suite incorporates fingerprint recognition, voice verification a
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Long-term care gets champion on the Hill
As the life span of the average citizen increases, the number of Americans requiring daily living assistance is sure to skyrocket. More than 5 million Americans have significant physical limitations due to illness or disability, and many of these people require longterm care. Longterm care refers
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Security concerns drive feds to training program
With 2000 just more than six months away, many federal and industry organizations have begun to turn their Year 2000 efforts away from ensuring that systems are compliant and toward protecting systems from cyberattacks and abuse by employees. But the technology in the information security arena is
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Army to offer 'information survival' training
The Army this fall plans to offer an online graduatelevel training course on information systems survivability that would teach engineers to develop systems capable of surviving any kind of technical glitch or network attack. The Army will offer the new 14week information survivability (infosurv)
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Dutch firm launches bid for Wang Global
A $2 billion bid by Dutch computer services company Getronics NV for Wang Global presents an opportunity to bring together two complementary companies with similar direction, the president of Wang Government Services Inc. said last week. Getronics, which does threequarters of its business in the N
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Lugar looks to boost USDA CIO authority
Sen. Richard Lugar (RInd.) last week introduced a bill that would give the Agriculture Department's chief information officer more control over technology spending and more power to attack the Year 2000 computer problem. The bill, S. 949, represents a second push by Lugar, chairman of the Senate A
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Feature-rich AutoCAD 2000 debuts
Autodesk Inc. has dubbed the new release of its flagship product 'AutoCAD 2000,' instead of Release 15, to symbolize the move into the next millennium. For AutoCAD, the next millennium begins with a bang: The new release adds 400 or so features, including significant changes to the user interface.
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Act would set digital guidelines
Government agencies and information security vendors are cautiously optimistic about a bill introduced in the House last month that aims to encourage the development of a nationwide electronic commerce infrastructure. The Digital Signature Act, sponsored by Rep. Bart Gordon (DTenn.), would require
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States More Proactive Than Feds on Privacy Protection, Advocates Say
State and local governments are leading the federal government in protecting citizen information, according to privacy advocates lobbying for a new federal agency to regulate how online businesses use consumers' personal data.
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Microsoft probes Unix territory
Microsoft Corp., making an unprecedented foray into Sun Microsystems Inc. territory, is scrambling to put together a Unix version of its messaging software after being shut out of the Army's strategic program for deploying commercial hardware and software to the battlefield. The Army has chosen to
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Provenance upgrades records software
Provenance Systems Inc. last week announced a new version of its ForeMost electronic recordkeeping software that is designed to be more userfriendly and easier to deploy to large numbers of users. ForeMost Enterprise is a 32bit upgrade to earlier versions of ForeMost, with a new, threetier archi
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USIA plugs in Kosovar refugees
Refugees from Kosovo are being given Internet access and email accounts that they can use to obtain news and try to contact their relatives as part of an international relief effort launched last week by the U.S. Information Agency. The program, called the Kosovar Refugee Internet Assistance Initi
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IRS plans to request first Prime funding
The Internal Revenue Service's top technology official last week told a group of industry leaders that the tax agency this week will request its first set of funds from Congress to develop a business plan for the IRS' highprofile, multibilliondollar modernization project. During a meeting of the
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