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The XML factor
A new World Wide Web tool has emerged that promises to revolutionize the way federal agencies do electronic commerce while protecting investments in such technologies as electronic data interchange (EDI). Extensible Markup Language is a way of defining the content of a document, similar to the way
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Spacecom upgrades for the future
The U.S. Space Command is planning a massive $1.8 billion upgrade project for the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, Colorado Springs, Colo., that will lay the systems integration groundwork for a future national missile defense system. Industry sources expect the command to issue a solicitation
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Georgia Network Caters to Kids
When schools close for the summer, hungry children are in particular danger of slipping through the public safety net. Communities often must redouble their efforts to find and feed children who receive free or reducedprice meals through the public school system but have no guarantees during the s
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CA plans Platinum purchase
Computer Associates International Inc. last week announced plans to purchase fellow management tools vendor Platinum Technology International Inc. for $3.5 billion in cash. Officials of CA, which last year tried unsuccessfully to take over Computer Sciences Corp., said they approached Platinum, whi
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USDA telecom picks MCI
The Agriculture Department announced last week that it selected MCI WorldCom to provide longdistance voice and data services through the company's FTS 2001 contract with the General Services Administration. Keith Jackson, the USDA's associate chief information officer for telecommunications servic
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What is stepped pricing?
In this column, I'd like to address the following points: What is stepped pricing? How new is it? How does it work? Recently, the concept of 'tier pricing' methodologies in government contracts has been discussed in Federal Computer Week. Such methods have been around for a long time. Indeed, a sig
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Federal Bytes
DESEVE HAS TO GO. At a House hearing last week before the Government Management, Information and Technology Subcommittee, subcommittee chairman Rep. Steve Horn (RCalif.) wanted to know whether Ed DeSeve soontobe former deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget w
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Communities
DenverGov: Home of 250 New Webmasters Denver recently unveiled a World Wide Web site designed to secure the city a lead in the pack of municipal governments racing to deploy services to the Internet. The site, at www.denvergov.org, is staffed by 250 city and county agency employees designated as c
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Intercepts
ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK IT21 ON THE BRIDGE. Sitting high above the complex ballet of aircraft and crew on this aircraft carrier's flight deck, Capt. Matt Touhy's eyes do not stop moving as he guides the ship through the flight operations off the coast of Saipan (the largest of the Marianas Is
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Air Force's PC buying strategy on target
The blanket purchase agreements for PC hardware, software and peripherals that the Air Force's Standard Systems Group (SSG) recently negotiated as successors to the Desktop V contract will provide Air Force customers access to uptodate, quickly refreshable information technology. The amazingly co
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Virginia Governor Ignores Internet Tax Lawsuit, Sets June Meeting
Defacto leader of a new 19member Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, Gilmore is charging forward with plans to hold an initial meeting of the group, which will ultimately set the pace for future taxation of Internetbased commerce.
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U.S. Army failed to issue systems that may have aided captured soldiers
The Defense Information Systems Agency today awarded Motorola Inc.'s Government Systems Operation a $219 million contract for equipment and accessories to support Defense Department communications through the Iridium LLC satellite network.
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DOD taps Motorola for Iridium gear
The Defense Information Systems Agency today awarded Motorola Inc.'s Government Systems Operation a $219 million contract for equipment and accessories to support Defense Department communications through the Iridium LLC satellite network.
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USPS unveils first approved Internet postage product
The U.S. Postal Service today announced the first approved Internet software product that will allow users to print postage from their PCs.
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Rep. Horn slams agencies for poor financial management
The chairman of a House oversight committee today gave out the first report card on federal agencies' ability to track how they spend taxpayers' money, failing half of the 24 agencies.
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Serbia launches cyberattack on NATO
NATO's World Wide Web server has been rendered virtually inoperable as a result of a denial of service attack launched by an unknown number of cyberterrorists from an undisclosed location deep within Serbia, NATO officials announced today.
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Y2K czar declares feds will be ready for 2000
The Clinton administration today announced that 92 percent of the federal government's 6,123 missioncritical systems have met the selfimposed March 31 deadline for all systems to be Year 2000compliant.
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Micron program will ease fed PC buys
Micron Electronics announced this week a new PC management program, called Mpower, that is designed to allow government agencies to trade in old PCs for credit on new purchases, set up a comprehensive leasing program and offer to dispose of old PCs in a safe recycling system.
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United States, Australia create WAN during exercise
Innovative use of satellite technology has tied four Royal Australian Navy ships into a widearea network that spans the Western Pacific Ocean, allowing the ships to exchange essential data with the joint Australian/U.S. staff aboard this command ship.
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