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Web survey software comparison
Information is power. And while e-mail and the World Wide Web have made it possible to distribute information around the globe faster than ever, a new type of software is turning the Internet into a channel for collecting information.
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CIOs call for secret clearance
The security committee of the CIO Council last month urged all agency chief information officers and deputy CIOs to obtain a toplevel security clearance usually reserved for those working on sensitive military or intelligence programs. The committee believes CIOs and deputy CIOs need these securit
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Boeing IT group on the block
Boeing Corp. quietly has tried to sell Boeing Information Services for at least the past three months, sources inside and outside the company confirmed last week. FCW has learned that Boeing has shopped its federal services business to a number of rival firms, including CACI Inc., Computer Sciences
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CIO Council issues strategic plan The federal CIO Council will continue to be guided by the six priorities that council members outlined last year, according to the group's 1999 strategic plan, released late last month. The council's core vision for government is for agencies to use information and
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FAA plan will reduce voice congestion in the airwaves
The Federal Aviation Administration detailed on Jan. 6 its plan to replace many routine voice transmissions between controllers and pilots with digital data messages a move designed to increase the number of aircraft that controllers can manage by reducing congestion in the airwaves.
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OMB's McConnell to move to President's Y2K Council
Bruce McConnell, who has been instrumental in crafting and enforcing information policy at the Office of Management and Budget for more than a decade, this month will move to the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion to work on international Year 2000 issues, according to an administration source.
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Report: Y2K problems could close DOD chemical plant
Officials at an Army chemical disposal site for nerve gas and blister agents have seriously mismanaged Year 2000 fixes to critical computer systems, raising the possibility that the government will shut down the site at a cost of $2 million a week, according to a recently released report.
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DOD questions international spectrum fees
The Defense Department wants to ensure it has the worldwide access to the radio spectrum needed to support battle operations, but the Pentagon's top communications official indicated today that DOD no longer wants to pay for its spectrum access abroad.
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Report calls PKI key to a digital U.S. government
A fledgling technology built on public key infrastructure (PKI) will be key to the government's success in achieving the digital government envisioned by the Clinton administration, according to a report released today.
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GSA looks to funnel IT work to small businesses
The General Services Administration today laid out new goals for tapping small businesses on large contracts, starting with its $25 billion contract for largescale information technology support services.
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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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U.S. mulls offensive info warfare strategy
A debate is brewing in the Defense Department about whether the United States should continue to pursue offensive strategies to attack enemies via cyberspace, thereby opening the door to future coordinated and sophisticated attacks by other countries, according to an author of a recently released study.
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We Test Six Sensational Systems
The latest crop of desktop PCspowered by 450 MHz Pentium II processorsare winners, according to a recent product comparison conducted by the FCW Test Center. All six systems we tested scored above a 7.0 on our scale of 1 to 10. In fact, we'd recommend any one of these machines as a smart buy for state and local agencies.
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Office 2000: For Heavy Web Users Only
The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s Office the most popular office suite in the state and local marketis all about the World Wide Web. In fact, it is tough to tell where Office 2000's Windows applications end and the Web begins. The beta version of Office 2000, which shipped last month, is
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Littleton, Colo., Plants Investment With High Tech
Littleton, Colo.'s, shrinking economy was no little problem. In 1987, the community of 40,000 was still coping with the aftershocks of layoffs at several Texasbased oil companies when aerospace giant Martin Marietta cut its local rocket engineering staff in half. With an unemployment rate of about
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Pennsylvania's Bold Buy
This summer, in a move that shook up its procurement patterns, Pennsylvania standardized the core desktop functions of 40,000 state workers on Microsoft Corp. software. Under the threeyear, $23.6 million deal, which covered the operating system, the office suite and email, the state expected to save $9.2 million and reap big productivity gains.
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Local Government and the Year 2000
The political drama in Washington, D.C., in the past few months stands in stark contrast to the atmosphere at the other end of the representative spectrum these days. While Congress decides on the removal of a president, local governments are more likely to be busy with snow removal, traffic manage
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Facilities Management: Windy City Shoulders Work Flow
Facilities management isn't something you usually notice unless it's being done poorly.
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This Month's State and Local IT Developments
ECommerce Appointments Challenged Congress reserved eight seats for state and local government officials on a highprofile, 19member commission that likely will set the agenda for a national Internet tax policy. But already state and local interest groups are irked. Both the National Association
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