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Army unit provides comm support to forces in the Gulf
The 500-acre warehouse complex that serves as the U.S. Army headquarters west of Kuwait City, houses an impressive array of vehicles and equipment, including computers to outfit an entire armored brigade
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READY FOR KOSOVO. Government Technology Services Inc. has stockpiled Panasonic rugged laptop computers in case the Army asks it to provide laptops for forces deployed in Kosovo. Joel Lipkin, business development poohbah at GTSI, said, 'We've taken a stocking position in rugged computers so we coul
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U.S. Central Command battles for bandwidth
Faced with the challenge of protecting American interests in one of the most turbulent regions of the world, Central Command is building a new warfighting strategy for the 21st century
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IRS wants up-front cash for Prime
A top information technology official at the Internal Revenue Service last week warned that if Congress does not advance it $325 million, the tax agency's highprofile modernization effort could be delayed. During a recent hearing, the IRS asked members of the House Ways and Means Committee to supp
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FTS considers adding ERP services program
In an effort to expand its range of services, the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service is close to launching a program to provide information technology products and services to agencies looking to install enterprise resource planning systems to automate financial, human res
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Fedwire Briefs
Report: New cyberterrorism coming Terrorist groups of the future will rely increasingly on advanced communications and network technologies to carry out new kinds of coordinated cyberattacks, according to a report released this month by Rand Corp. According to 'The New Terrorism,' a study that res
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DOT chooses MCI for FTS 2001
The Transportation Department last week announced that it had selected MCI WorldCom to provide voice, data and Internet services through its FTS 2001 contract with the General Services Administration. An MCI spokesman estimated the award's value at up to $160 million over the eight years of the con
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FBI gets ISI plan to Congress
As required by Congress, the FBI this month submitted to Capitol Hill appropriators a plan to develop a system that agents will use to share evidence and information on crimes in hopes of solving cases faster. The plan lays out how the FBI will pull off its multimilliondollar Information Sharing I
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Bridging the Gulf, an FCW special report
Special report intro: The Persian Gulf provided lessons about bandwidth and information management
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FAA comm slashed
Telecommunications managers at the Federal Aviation Administration are scrambling to cut $82 million from their fiscal 1999 budget despite criticism that the cuts cannot be made without an impact on critical services to make up for a funding shortfall largely brought on by a pay raise for air t
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Oregon Offers Real-Time Bus Stop Data
Oregonians waiting at bus stops in Portland soon may be able to view realtime projections of bus arrival times under the state's intelligent transportation system (ITS) plan.
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Study warns of a new cyberterrorism called 'netwar'
Terrorist groups of the future will rely increasingly on advanced communications and network technologies to carry out coordinated cyberattacks and to attract sympathizers to their cause, according to a report released last week by Rand Corp.
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Mid-Atlantic States to Offer Personalized Transit Data
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut unveiled at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America conference a regional effort to bring personalized travel data to public transit riders.
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FAA restores funding to test new air traffic control concept
The Federal Aviation Administration has restored $14.8 million in fiscal 1999 funding for a critical program that will move the agency one step closer to a revolutionary concept in air traffic control.
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U.S. tests GPS satellites for Y2K compliance
The U.S. Space Command plans to begin today testing the Year 2000 compliance of the Global Positioning System. The test will involve a single satellite and will not interfere with the daytoday operations of GPS users.
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HUD's procurement process improving; more steps suggested
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has made many improvements to its procurement process over the past year, but the agency still needs to take additional steps to improve management, according to an independent report released yesterday.
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Clinton administration: Governmentwide Y2K testing day unnecessary
The White House today announced that it does not support a bill that would require federal agencies to set aside one day to conduct governmentwide testing of key computer systems to assess their Year 2000-compliance.
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Internet database accesses patents, trademarks
Commerce Department Secretary William Daley today unveiled an Internet database that will make it easier to access the text and images of 2 million patents and more than 1 million registered and pending trademarks.
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NIH plugs ImageWorld at imaging show
ATLANTA On the floor here at the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) trade show, the National Institutes of Health booth was easy to miss. Tucked into the middle of the secondtolast aisle of the expansive Georgia World Congress Center, it was dwarfed by bigspending vendors
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