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FCC chief to fight for E-Rate funding
Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard today signaled his intent to fight for more funding for the ERate program, which was slashed almost in half last year after it fell under congressional fire.
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New York Clears Way for Electronic Medication Transactions
New York next month will allow doctors to use email to send prescriptions to pharmacies. The state also will allow pharmacists access to online medication profiles, as long as patients authorize the sharing of their records among pharmacies with a common database.
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Wang agrees to purchase by Dutch firm
The Air Force last week awarded three contracts for highpowered, rugged portable computers to Cytec Corp,. Government Technology Services Inc. and Inacom Government Systems.
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Feds misuse Y2K money, GAO says
Some federal agencies have not kept good records of how they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in money that Congress allocated last year for Year 2000 fixes, with some agencies spending the money on unrelated projects, according to a report released today by the General Accounting Office.
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Federal Government May Be a Culprit in Urban Sprawl Crisis
The General Accounting Office recently issued an assessment of the impact federal regulations may have on America's sprawling urban and suburban development. Specifically, GAO was looking to quantify the effect taxation, environmental regulation, federal highway expansion funding and other programs have on urban sprawl.
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DOD's 'lousy' computers create financial mess
Defense Department officials told Congress today that installing new computer systems is key to improving the department's balance sheet, which has been kept so sloppily that auditors cannot render an accounting opinion on its accuracy.
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BSA's New Anti-Piracy Campaign
Concerned that students do not exercise ethical judgment when it comes to technology, the Business Software Alliance, teachers and elected officials yesterday launched a campaign to drive home the importance of ethical software use.
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EPA picks Sprint as telecom provider
Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency this week notified the General Services Administration that the EPA had selected Sprint to provide its voice and data services under the FTS 2001 contract.
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IRS set to ask for first modernization funds
The Internal Revenue Service's top technology official today told a group of industry leaders that the tax agency next week will request its first set of funds from Congress to develop a business plan for the IRS' highprofile modernization project.
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SAIC Wins Key California Security Contract
California's Independent System Operator, which operates the state's electric power grid, recently awarded Science Applications International Corp. a contract for security services and products. Under the contract, the San Diegobased company will provide publickey infrastructure and cryptographic goods and services a first step toward ISO's efforts toward electronic commerce.
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Civic-Minded Technology
Bigger is better in Texas, and Lone Star State residents 'don't look kindly' on suggestions that they curb their appetite for real estate, Austin's senior planner, George Adams, admitted. When civic planning officials like Adams go before a roomful of angry motorists who stand to lose a leftturn l
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OMB '100 percent' behind Air Force buying strategy
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. The federal government's top procurement official last week expressed support for the way the Air Force conducted the awards of three contracts worth more than $400 million but said her office is looking into questions raised by industry groups protesting the agency's acquisitio
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Letters to the Editor
Small biz critical A recent letter to the editor of your publication ['Scrap SDB preference,' April 19] displayed an unfortunate misunderstanding of small, disadvantaged business (SDB) utilization programs in the federal government. Such misunderstanding was prompted by an editorial by FCW [March
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GSA accepts bids on governmentwide PKI program
The General Services Administration is one step closer to awarding the first contract aimed at providing publickey infrastructure technology governmentwide after receiving proposals on its Access Certificates for Electronic Services program. As the first contract designed to provide the technology
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British firm to acquire Fore
Britain's General Electric Co. has announced plans to buy Fore Systems Inc., a company that supplies network switching equipment to several federal organizations, large corporations and Internet service providers. GEC said last week it would pay $4.5 billion in cash for Fore Systems, a price that r
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Education increases access for visually impaired
In an effort to become Year 2000compliant and to provide its visually impaired workers with easiertouse technology, the Education Department is rolling out Microsoft Corp.'s flagship email software to its 5,000 desktops agencywide. Microsoft Outlook and the companion server software, Exchange,
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Printer power
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk and Pat McClung Last year the big news in the network workgroup color printer market was price cuts [Government Best Buys, April 6, 1998]. This year we've found major improvements in print quality, speed and system design. The good news is that these improvements haven'
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GOES to monitor severe weather
In time for the start of hurricane season, which begins June 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to launch a weather satellite that will ensure that instant weather data is delivered to forecasters to provide more accurate severeweather warnings. The new Geostationary Ope
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Federal Bytes
GORE'S 'POTATOE.' It's quickly becoming the comment that won't die. Vice President Al Gore's unfortunate remarks concerning his involvement in the origin of the Internet have truly taken on a life of their own. Responding to comments made by President Clinton last week on the status of Rep. Rush Ho
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