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FAA puts maintenance system in holding pattern
Lack of funding and unclear requirements have forced the Federal Aviation Administration to stop fullscale development on a contract potentially worth $100 million for a computer system to track the maintenance of the nation's air traffic control system. The FAA recently informed contractor Raythe
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Local officials deal another blow to Marine high-tech exercise
The Marine Corps today canceled an amphibious landing scheduled for tomorrow that would have kicked off a major high-tech military exercise here, after local officials cited environmental concerns.
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Financial group lays security groundwork
The financial industry group working with the Treasury Department on protecting the nation's critical systems has identified its top priorities and is beginning to carry them out.
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FAA updates plan for modernizing nation's air system
The Federal Aviation Administration today released a longawaited updated version of its plan to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS), which includes air traffic control towers, radar, and communications and navigation systems.
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DOD center test drives Oracle Financials
The Defense Energy Support Center, the agency responsible for providing global fuel energy support to the Defense Department, recently began testing Oracle Corp.'s Financials software as part of an enterprisewide effort to reinvent the agency's business processes. The official use of Oracle Financi
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Federal Bytes
BIG SHOT AT DOJ. You shouldn't tangle with her in court, and it's probably not wise to tangle with her on the court either. We're talking about Janet Reno, of course. Word on the street is that the attorney general plays a mean game of hoops. Actually, the word came not from the street but at a fed
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Two packages ease HTML conversion
The World Wide Web is a communications frontier for many agencies, and with it come new challenges. For government Webmasters, moving volumes of documents from office workstations where they reside to the publicly available Web can be like scaling a summit. Newer word processing programs includin
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DOD halts small-biz benefits
The Defense Department last month suspended for one year all pricing preferences for small and disadvantaged businesses after the agency reported that it had exceeded its SDB contracting goals for the year. The move is expected to cost small businesses at least $50 million in DOD contracts. DOD fro
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Anteon to acquire services firm
Anteon Corp. today announced plans to buy Analysis?#038;Technology Inc., an engineering and information technology services company that provides systems engineering and IT services.
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SAP looks to improve on recent successes
In the first year after setting up business in the public sector, SAP America Inc. has exceeded its original goals for the market and has set its sights on even more dramatic gains in the year ahead, according to Robert Salvucci, president of SAP America Public Sector and Education Inc., a subsidia
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DOD upgrades super tech
The Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (CEWES) late last month announced it had awarded $25 million in contracts to upgrade its supercomputers and to take advantage of some of the newest and most powerful technology available. The upgrades, which also are occurring at other Defens
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Panel: Changes can lure IT labor
The federal government can attract muchneeded information technology professionals by posting more job opportunities electronically and by offering tuition to students in exchange for a work commitment, according to preliminary recommendations by an interagency task force. These and other recommen
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Outdated computers plague IRS
The top financial administrator at the Internal Revenue Service told Congress last week that the agency's financial reporting system cannot reliably track federal tax revenue and tax refunds nor can it prepare other key financial statements.
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Travel time can count as overtime
During my federal career, I often wondered why I was not paid overtime when traveling on government business during nonbusiness hours. A recent case submitted to the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) for arbitration sheds some light on this issue. The FLRA recently adjudicated a dispute (54
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House blasts DOD over savings claims
A bipartisan group of lawmakers last week assailed Defense Department outsourcing and privatization initiatives, labeling DOD an inept financial planner and questioning the department's savings from reform efforts. Rep. Herbert Bateman (R-Va.), who presided over a meeting of the House Military Read
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Protests protect procurement system (Part 2)
In 'Silence of protestors' bark signals new era' [FCW, Feb. 22], Steven Kelman revels in the 'changing nature of the relationship between the government and IT vendors.' He is glad nobody protested two recent IT procurements. He applauds contractors that voluntarily relinquished their due process r
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Advanced hacks sting Pentagon
The Defense Department confirmed late Friday that a major cyberattack against its critical information systems has been under way for the past several months, propelling the newly formed Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense into its first realworld test. 'There appears to be something new
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Fedwire Briefs
DeSeve leaving OMB for private sector G. Edward DeSeve, whose nomination as deputy director of management in the Office of Management and Budget was never confirmed by the Senate, has announced plans to leave government at the end of the month for a job with the consulting company KPMG LLP. DeSeve
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Industry Watch
Storage Technology Corp. this month plans to ship new software for archiving email that aims to make it easier to capture, index and retrieve messages. The first version of MessageVault is designed for Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange, but the company plans to release a Lotus Development Corp. Notes version shortly.
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