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Treasury picks Sprint for telecom The Treasury Department late last week selected Sprint as its vendor on the FTS 2001 longdistance telecommunications contract. A company spokesman said Treasury represents the first 'major' agency to sign on to its FTS 2001 contract, awarded by the General Service
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CIAO chief charges against cyberthreats
Jeffrey Hunker always has been fascinated with the gray areas where disciplines and fields of knowledge intersect. His career has been anchored by work in business and technology, but he also is an avid photographer an intersection of interests molded perhaps by his father, a nuclear physicist,
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White House proposes big hike in IT research funding for 2000
Six federal agencies would share a $366 million boost in funding for information technology research next year under the Clinton administration's proposed fiscal 2000 budget.
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Webmaster training crucial
Over the past several years, the World Wide Web has evolved from a hightech backwater to an important venue through which government agencies can deliver services to the public.
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Navy intranet stakes raised
The Navy's top officer last week raised the stakes in the service's pursuit to build an intranet to link half a million Navy users around the world by 2001.
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San Francisco says no to Marines' high-tech exercise
San Francisco this week slammed the door on a Marine Corps proposal to use neighboring national parklands as the site for an major military exercise designed to test cuttingedge information technologies in an urban environment.
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Labor takes step toward paperless benefits filing
The Labor Department recently awarded $6 million contracts to two vendors hired in a pilot program by the agency to develop a computer system that would allow employers to file their benefit plans electronically. In September, Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration division will decide
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Intercepts
DEGEEKING. I have my famed Interceptor mobile unit in San Diego this week for the West '99 conference sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and the Naval Institute, where the hot buzz is the Navywide intranet, not the Naval Virtual Intranet. The Navy's Spawar Com
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Storage dilemma looms
San Francisco this week slammed the door on a Marine Corps proposal to use neighboring national parklands as the site for an major military exercise designed to test cuttingedge information technologies in an urban environment.
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BLM site earns kudos
A team from the Bureau of Land Management last week received Vice President Al Gore's Hammer Award for developing a World Wide Web site that makes land records easily accessible by genealogists and legal researchers. The Web site, www.glorecords.blm.gov, hosts an online database of 'land patents,'
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Koskinen: Feds OK on Y2K
Despite concerns that the Year 2000 computer bug could bring down some federal government computer systems, President Clinton's Year 2000 czar last week told Congress that he is confident all missioncritical systems will be ready for the new millennium.
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Lotus Notes update proves solid
Lotus Development Corp.'s latest version of its Notes client and Domino server groupware platform, announced last week, offers significant improvements in openness and modularity, and it features a new browser-like interface.
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Cost-analysis software wins fed business
Fueled by the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act and dwindling budgets, several federal agencies have begun to use activitybased, costmanagement software from Atlantabased Armstrong Laing Inc. to display the true costs of services. The Treasury Department, the Patent and
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Clinton: $1.4B to fight cyberterror
President Clinton last week said his fiscal 2000 budget request will include $1.4 billion for protection of the banking, electric and other critical systems and for computer security a 40 percent increase in the two budget years since the president created the Critical Infrastructure Protection C
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GSA awards $25 billion IT services pact
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service last week awarded its $25 billion information technology services and support contract to 10 vendors.
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MCI wins in Round Two of FTS 2001
The General Services Administration this month selected MCI WorldCom as the second contractor on the $5 billion FTS 2001 contract that will provide the federal government with longdistance services and save taxpayers billions.
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Lax security risks taxpayer data
The Internal Revenue Service's computer systems have serious security weaknesses that put sensitive personal tax information at risk, according to a General Accounting Office audit released this month. According to the audit, in which GAO investigated six IRS facilities, the facilities could not ac
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How can winners defend awards?
The following topic was raised by a company representative: What is the role of the apparently successful offeror when a procurement decision is challenged in federal court? This is another seemingly straightforward question to which the answer is anything but straightforward. To pursue an action i
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