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Clinton administration disputes Y2K spending report
The Clinton administration last week denied accusations that some federal agencies have either misspent or not properly tracked hundreds of millions of dollars allocated for Year 2000 fixes. The General Accounting Office released a report last week on how agencies have spent some of the $3.35 billi
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Fedwire Briefs
GSA IT sked sales near $5 billion Sales on the General Services Administration's information technology schedule for fiscal 1999 have reached nearly $4.9 billion through April, according to the Federal Supply Service. Of that business, $1.4 billion went to small, disadvantaged and womanowned busin
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FTS streamlines Web site design
As part of an effort to improve its marketing, the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service last month gave its World Wide Web site a face lift, making it easier for users to locate the information they need about contracts and services. The site, at fts.gsa.gov, is often the fi
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LOC picks new material for Digital Library
Portraits of pioneers trekking westward and of the country's first AfricanAmerican church are among the collections of 12 institutions recently selected by the Library of Congress to make their historical treasures available on LOC's World Wide Web site. In all, LOC has selected 33 institutions in
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FBI taps five for services
The FBI last week awarded contracts to five small businesses to provide an array of technology services ranging from managing localarea networks to creating mapping software for tracking crime. The contracts, under the FBI's Information Technology Support Program (ITSP), carry an estimated value o
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Procurement reform moving into next phase
Because they often cost so much money to attend, one hesitates to use the expression 'a dime a dozen' to describe them, but certainly one may say that conferences are a staple of Washington life. Rarely, however, does one describe them as 'breathtaking' or 'historic.' Yet I recently attended an ev
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Vendors step up PKI push
Now that publickey infrastructure technology is being accepted, information security vendors are touting their PKI solutions as a way for agencies to support new applications, rather than simply a way to increase security.
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DOD needs systems to balance finances
Defense Department officials told Congress last week that installing new computer systems is key to improving the department's balance sheet, which cannot account for as much as $10 billion. 'We have lousy systems,' DOD assistant inspector general Robert Lieberman told the House Government Manageme
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LivePage eases complex Web content management
If your agency has a small World Wide Web site with fairly static pages, you can probably get by without any special programs for managing its content. But if you've got a large site with content that changes frequently, you'll want to consider moving to a Web contentmanagement program. LivePage C
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Agencies to plunge into incentive-based contracting
The Army and the General Services Administration are among the leading agencies that plan to take advantage of a new incentivebased approach to buying technology products and services.
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EDS joins health, local operations
Electronic Data Systems Corp. this week lumped together its state and local government operations with its health care programs, forming a new group dubbed State Business.
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U.S. DOJ Offers Police Polling Software to Cities
The U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics is offering cities new software for polling citizens on their attitudes toward policing..
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DOJ approves Bell Atlantic, GTE merger
The Justice Department today approved the merger between Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., with an agreement by the companies to get rid of their overlapping cellular and personal communications service (PCS) wireless businesses.
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San Diego County Has New Outsourcing Honcho
San Diego County's chief administrative officer, Larry Prior, this week announced plans to leave government to become president of a local hightech firm. Moving into Prior's slot is former deputy CAO Walt Ekard, who will serve as sourceselection authority for the county's huge outsourcing endeavor.
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Kentucky Clears the Way for New Master Contracts
Unisys Corp. today announced a strategic alliances services contract award from the commonwealth of Kentucky a first step in the state's effort to frame a set of state contracts with IT vendors.
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Internet centers set up for Kosovo refugees
The U.S. Information Agency, together with other federal agencies and international organizations, is setting up Internetbased information centers for Kosovar refugees at refugee camps in Poland, France, Germany, the Balkans and Fort Dix, N.J.
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Net Tax Commission Gets Down to Business
Thirteen members of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce that will set the pace for government taxation of the Internet are poised to come together next month in Williamsburg, Va., at the College of William and Mary to grapple with key ecommerce and tax policy issues.
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DOD taking steps to secure secret network further
Looking to protect its classified information network from internal security threats, the Defense Department is considering a new policy that will limit strictly network users' access to information.
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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, teaching engineers to develop systems capable of surviving any kind of technical glitch and network attack.
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