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Bad behavior is inexcusable
A federal employee recently learned the hard way that yelling at your supervisor in front of others is not very clever. The case involved Jeri Lewis, an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs who was removed from her GS7 position as a certified respiratory therapy technician at the Philade
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Public Safety Net
Being involved in a traffic accident is nobody's idea of fun, but if it has to happen, your best chances may be in San Antonio. That's because the Texas city is home to a bleedingedge marriage of communications and public safety technologies that could make it one of the world's most advanced cent
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Marketplace Web Extras
Back from the Brink Apple 'Thinks Different' With New Announcements By Joshua Dean Apple Computer Inc. recently unleashed a string of new product offerings, many geared toward computer lab clusters of users and workgroups. The Cupertino, Calif.based company made it clear on a recent product tour t
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INS awards first task orders under $1B program
The Immigration and Naturalization Service last week awarded Electronic Data Systems Corp. and Computer Sciences Corp. the first task orders off a broad $1 billion computer systems contract that the agency will use for everything from enhancing border enforcement to compiling financial data.
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DISA selects Motorola for satellite comm
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Motorola Inc. a $219 million contract to supply satellite communications products and services throughout the Defense Department. Under the threeyear contract, Motorola will provide mobile phones, pagers and other communications services operating
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NEC adds fingerprint solution to GSA sked
NEC Technologies Inc. recently added its fingerprintbased network security solution to its General Services Administration schedule, positioning the product as an alternative to passwordbased solutions. The product, known as TouchPass, verifies the identity of someone logging onto a network by ch
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USIA agency spreads Kosovo news abroad
The World Wide Web's leading news sources, such as the online versions of the major newspapers and CNN, provide a deluge of articles about the crisis in Kosovo. A number of Defense Department sites also provide information on certain aspects of operations. But those sites are not the only news sour
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Dual Pentium IIs Pack Power into Servers
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk And Chip Pettirossi If you are looking for a PC server with plenty of horsepower and storage space, a 450 MHz Intel Corp. Pentium II dualprocessor system may be the answer. This class of workgroup servers is designed for file storage and data safety. However, the dual
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Linux Offers LowCost Alternative to UnixorWindowsNT Dilemma State and local government managers may be catching on to the advantages of Linux, a opensource operating system that caught fire in 1999 as an inexpensive way for technology managers to broaden their selection of operating systems be
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OFPP may review AF buying strategy
In reaction to a letter sent from two industry advisory groups, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy may review an Air Force decision to use an independent survey as the basis for selecting vendors to bid on blanket purchase agreements. In February, the Air Force's Standard Systems Group (SSG)
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HP solution serves small biz
HewlettPackard Co. last week released a new server designed to bring full backup and recovery technology to small and midsize businesses and government offices. The new HP NetServer E 60, which supports up to two Intel Corp. Pentium II or Pentium III processors, is perfectly suited for government
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States Shop for OBI Solutions
State and local government agencies that have taken the first steps toward Internetbased procurement know that even basic electronic commerce applications have the potential to cut bid times, lower costs and improve interagency cooperation. Massachusetts, for one, claims it can lower its transacti
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FAA reports it is near Y2K compliance
The Federal Aviation Administration today said it has fixed and tested all of its systems in need of repair for Year 2000 compliance and is nearly finished installing the fixed systems.
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Software targets help desks with diverse users
Network Associates Inc. last week released its Magic Total Service Desk, a browserbased servicesupport suite that allows a single help desk to service multiple departments within an organization. Magic TSD builds on Network Associates' McAfee ServiceDesk and Magic Solutions Inc.'s SupportMagic he
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USDA takes first step toward integrated net
The Agriculture Department last month released a draft statement of work for a program to migrate the department to a single telecommunications network. The program is expected to reduce the agency's telecommunications costs and improve network performance. The Telecommunications Enterprise Network
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NIH readies services contract follow-on
The National Institutes of Health last week confirmed that it will recompete its Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners (CIOSP) contracts, with a plan to award new pacts before the current ones expire in August 2001. Leamon Lee, NIH's associate director for administration, said he wants a
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FormFlow 99 streamlines form management
Paper is out. Electronic forms are in. Thanks to a convergence of technologies as well as cost concerns, agencies are converting forms from paper to pixels. And as they move to electronic forms, agencies more often are streamlining procurement and other business processes by connecting applications
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Agencies fight off 'Melissa' macro virus
Federal agencies last week found themselves doing battle with a wildly proliferating computer virus dubbed 'Melissa' that even managed to make its way on board a Navy ship. However, thanks in part to timely alerts and contingency planning, agencies managed to contain the damage. The Melissa macro v
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New device wipes CD-ROMs clean of data
What looks like a bomb, sounds like a coffee grinder and can destroy a compact disc's contents in 40 seconds? A new device, called the DXCDe, which pulverizes the data layer on CDROM and CDRecordable discs so that it cannot be reconstructed, even with an electron microscope and a supercomputer.
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