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HUD may ask for Y2K help
Over the next few months, the Department of Housing and Urban Development may ask Congress for additional funds and legislation to ensure that HUD's local housing authorities and business partners are prepared for the Year 2000 date change. Pending final testing of its computer systems and business
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IRS data project boosts debt collection
Since the last tax season, the Internal Revenue Service has brought online one of the largest data warehouses in the federal government to store tax information that will help the agency collect debts from taxpayers. The Compliance Data Warehouse, which cost the IRS only $2 million, already has gen
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Graphics powerhouses
Tested by Andreas Uiterwijk and Pat McClung When we last looked at Windows NT workstations [Government Best Buys, March 1998], we found that many vendors were billing soupedup PCs as workstations rather than offering true workstationclass machines. Those socalled workstations just could not comp
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Correct use of past performance key
I recently received a phone call from a friend who works for a vendor that had just lost a big award. Company executives learned during the debriefing with the agency that a major reason why the company had not won was that it did not score as well as others on past performance. My friend was somew
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FAA calls Y2K test a success
The Federal Aviation Administration last week declared that air traffic control systems will successfully transition to Jan. 1, 2000, based on initial results of an endtoend test at Denver International Airport. The test, which took place April 1011, included tracking live air traffic with some
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Fedwire Briefs
Privacy neglected on fed Web sites Most federal agencies do not adequately protect the privacy of individuals on their World Wide Web sites, according to a report released last week. The Center for Democracy and Technology, an advocacy group that follows IT issues in Washington, D.C., found that ne
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Industry Watch
Intergraph unveils new servers Intergraph Computer Systems last week introduced two new servers designed for highend and workgroup customers that want to integrate future storage and networking technology. Intergraph designed the InterServe 9400 enterpriseclass server and the InterServe 90 workg
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DOD hands over PKI responsibility to NSA
The Defense Department this month officially transferred to the National Security Agency responsibility for the department's program overseeing the use of publickey encryption technology to secure internal and external DOD communications. DOD plans to release April 19 two documents that lay out th
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Adobe, Cardiff join forces on forms project
ATLANTA Cardiff Software Inc., which makes data capture software, and Adobe Systems Inc., which makes electronic publishing software, announced last week that they will offer a solution for processing data from forms created in Adobe's popular Portable Document Format. Adobe Acrobat makes it pos
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Letters to the Editor
Scrap SDB preference I wish to comment on your editorial ['Preference cutoff handcuffs DOD,' FCW, March 15] on the Defense Department's preferences given to small and disadvantaged businesses (SDBs) and how Congress has suspended this policy for one year. FCW wrote, 'Congress has said society benef
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GTE's JCON given a new life
GTE Government Systems Corp. has won a fourth year of business on a key Justice Department contract for office automation, despite a major change in program strategy. The department originally awarded the contract in March 1996 under its Justice Consolidated Office Network program, only to scrap th
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GAO: VA needs more Y2K testing
The Department of Veterans Affairs the Cabinetlevel agency that Congress considers to have made the most progress in fixing Year 2000 computer problems still faces Year 2000 loose ends that could jeopardize its performance, according to the General Accounting Office. Joel Willemssen, directo
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DOD leaders mull Internet disconnect
Hammered by relentless hacker attacks against its unclassified network for years, the Defense Department may back away from using the Internet, which it invented, in favor of relying on intranet enclaves, according to a top Army official. Lt. Gen. William Campbell, Army director of information syst
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Set-Asides
IRS: Plan Prime, then spend The Internal Revenue Service has put a tight grip on the purse strings for its multibilliondollar project to modernize the agency's computer systems. Al Mazei, assistant commissioner of the IRS' Program Management and Architecture Office, said money set aside for the p
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Fighting for his ideals
Bert Concklin is no Boy Scout. In fact, when he was a kid growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia in the 1940s, he got thrown out of the Cub Scouts for fighting. And the monkeyshines didn't end there. Concklin president of the Professional Services Council, a group that lobbies for federal cont
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GTSI sues IntelliSys over PC-3 recruiting
Government Technology Services Inc. last week filed suit in Fairfax County (Va.) Circuit Court against IntelliSys Technology Corp. and two former GTSI employees who are now with IntelliSys, claiming theft of trade secrets, tortious interference, breach of confidentiality and nondisclosure agreement
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MCI captures DOT telecom business
The Transportation Department today announced that it had selected MCI WorldCom to provide voice, data and Internet services through its FTS 2001 contract with the General Services Administration.
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Federal Bytes
WINGING IT. It's an odd convergence of 'The Far Side' and 'Dilbert,' where humans and animals and engineers collide. The National Science Foundation last month commissioned a report on 'the migration patterns of scientists and engineers.' The report will focus on professionals with computer sc
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100,000 call U.S. Y2K hotline
The Clinton administration today reported that the federal government's free information hotline for the Year 2000 computer problem has received more than 100,000 calls in its first three months of operation.
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