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Industry, feds team to tackle interoperability
Industry heavyweights and government agencies are working together to develop an Internetbased tool that makes it easier for organizations to field systems that can exchange data seamlessly. The Interoperability Clearinghouse would give information technology planners fast access to volumes of tec
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Vendors display converged net technology
The buzzword at the ComNet '99 conference late last month in Washington, D.C., was 'convergence,' with many exhibitors announcing and demonstrating products aimed at running voice over the Internet and other data networks. Vendors said they are seeing increased interest in these products among fede
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Oakland, Alameda welcome Marine high-tech exercise
Just one week after San Francisco rebuffed a Marine Corps proposal to hold a major exercise there, two other cities have agreed to host the Marines' Urban Warrior, which will test the use of information technology to support military operations in a city setting.
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NIH angles for $6 million to fund biomedical computing projects
President Clinton's proposed fiscal 2000 budget includes $6 million for the National Institutes of Health to spend on biomedical computing project
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IRS, Intuit offer free e-tax filing to low-income families
The Internal Revenue Service and Intuit Inc. today launched a free tax service for lowincome families to make technology more accessible and to help the IRS reach its goal of having 80 percent of taxpayers filing electronically by 2007.
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SAP lands on financial management sked
SAP America Public Sector Inc. today announced that its SAP R/3 product, training and consulting services are on the General Services Administration's Financial Management Systems Software (FMSS) schedule.
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Air Force adds 15 more vendors to services program
The Air Force this week awarded blanket purchase agreements to 15 additional vendors under a $750 million information technology services program, bringing the total number of large and small businesses involved in the program to 81.
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Dell names Buchsbaum head of federal division
SAP America Public Sector Inc. today announced that its SAP R/3 product, training and consulting services are on the General Services Administration's Financial Management Systems Software (FMSS) schedule.
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Qwest nabs one of two Treasury telecom pacts
Qwest Communications International Inc. has won a subcontract it says is worth $1 billion to provide highspeed telecommunications services to the Treasury Department.
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Former DOJ exec joins SAIC
Mark Boster, former deputy assistant attorney general for information resources management at the Justice Department, took a new job this week as a vice president at Science Applications International Corp.
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USPS taps CSC for payroll, benefits solutions
The U.S. Postal Service awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a contract potentially worth $198 million to assist the agency with developing information technology solutions for the agency's payroll and benefits operations.
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NARA seeks funds for digital archiving
The National Archives and Records Administration has proposed adding $400,000 to its budget to begin developing a system for digital records projects, including archiving federal agencies' e-mail.
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Budget boosts key Navy IT initiatives
The Defense Department's proposed fiscal 2000 budget, being unveiled today, boosts funding for Navy initiatives to supply its forces with computers and advanced communications equipment.
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DOE seeks increased funds for key research programs
The Energy Department has proposed spending more than $800 million on information technology programs in fiscal 2000, including $542.5 million?a 12 percent increase?for its Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative to simulate nuclear weapons tests.
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Moynihan Bill Injects Funding for State Y2K U.S. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (DN.Y.) introduced legislation to set up a matching grant to provide relief to state governments struggling to prepare computer systems for the Year 2000. The Y2K State and Local Government Assistance Programs Act of 1999 wou
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Marketplace
For the EBuyer, EDI Getting Easier The key to California's plans to launch a system that state workers can use to purchase equipment and services via the Internet may be technology that Sunnyvale, Calif.based Ariba Technologies Inc. has developed to make electronic data interchange (EDI) applicat
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Customs: User fees should fund modernization
For the second year in a row, President Clinton has proposed funding the U.S. Customs Service modernization program with user fees, and once again the plan faces an uphill battle in Congress.
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People Skills
Wendy Rayner knows firsthand what happens to states that let the technology skills of their employees languish. Ultimately, states that scrimp on technology training find that many of their workers just don't have the skills to do their jobs. 'We haven't kept up with bringing the skills along,' sai
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Taming Enterprise Data
In state and local governments, a consolidated view of all the data and records generated by individual constituents is a distant, idealized goal. Yet it is a service vision that holds a powerful grasp on government executives. Like corporations that have integrated large chunks of customer data, p
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