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CA-Unicenter receives DII COE certification
Computer Associates International Inc.'s enterprise management application last week was certified for the Defense Department's Common Operating Environment initiative. The company claims the application is the first enterprise management solution based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT to be certifi
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Coast Guard raises Y2K warning flag
SAN DIEGO Year 2000 datecode problems in oil tankers could lead to an oil spill in a U.S. port or slow the flow of imported oil to U.S. communities, some of which have 'only a three or fourday supply of oil,'' the Coast Guard's chief information officer said last week. Speaking here at the Nav
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FAA kicks off ATC upgrade
With its key computer systems wearing out, the Federal Aviation Administration last week launched an overhaul of a key segment of the air traffic control system. Eunomia (pronounced youNOmeuh), estimated to be worth $450 million, will replace and upgrade the aging systems in the en route centers
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How We Tested 300 MHz Pentium II notebooks
Notebook vendors recently introduced a host of models that feature revved-up 300 MHz Intel Corp. Pentium II processors. But buyers face the same trade-offs with these machines as with past models. Lower-priced notebooks often are bulkier but offer more extras and longer battery life, while ultra-sl
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Fed wins case but must fight for costs
Federal employees who win cases in which they charge that their agency has treated them unfairly should not necessarily assume they will be awarded attorney's fees. As a recent case involving a U.S. Postal Service employee illustrates, sometimes even winners have to fight for their rights. Michael
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DOD to create software agreements departmentwide
A Defense Department group plans to develop in the next year a broad array of volumediscount software agreements for all services and DOD agencies. Under its Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI), DOD hopes to develop a new business process for acquiring software by focusing on DODwide enterprise
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DOE's supercomputer man
Gil Weigand, the Energy Department's deputy assistant secretary for strategic computing and simulation since 1996, has been thinking big for more than two decades. In the early 1970s, before supercomputers had even been invented, Weigand chose to pursue his doctorate in engineering at Purdue Univer
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Federal Bytes
INSENSITIVITY. One of the more bizarre story pitches we've received recently concerned a Navy program to provide World Wide Webbased software development training to Native Americans. The program's goals are nothing if not laudable, but we were a bit taken back by the pitch itself: 'Successful sof
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AF set for wholesale move to service BPAs
In one of the largest initiatives to buy services through the General Services Administration schedule, the Air Force this week plans to award blanket purchase agreements to 40 teams under a threeyear, $750 million program for a broad range of information technology support services. The Informati
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AT&T disconnects vintage net service
AT&T officials told agencies last month that the company will no longer offer a 20yearold packetswitching telecommunications service to federal users of the FTS 2000 contract and will not upgrade the existing service for Year 2000 compliance. A spokeswoman for AT&T Government Markets said the co
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CIA expands Web presence
Culture is difficult to change, particularly in the intelligence community. However, the CIA recently displayed a willingness to share more of the supersecret agency's history and organization with an expanded World Wide Web presence. For a community that places secrecy at the heart of almost ever
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Better management key to making fusion technology work
The federal government has developed a number of intelligence programs and initiatives, called fusion algorithms, systems and processes, that rely on systems to produce coherent intelligence products. The systems use complex methods of sifting through enormous amounts of data to find and assimilate
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Fed 100 showcases IT success stories
As 1998 draws swiftly to a close, we not only look ahead to the challenges the new year will bring, but we also look back and marvel at the accomplishments of the federal information technology community in the year just past. The Federal 100 awards program is Federal Computer Week's way of acknowl
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Attention, Shoppers
On Oct. 15, VWR Scientific, a Buffalo Grove, Ill., lab supplies company, received a small but notable purchase order from Massachusetts.
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News Feed
San Diego County Ramps Up for Mega Outsourcing Deal San Diego County, Calif., has taken the first steps toward privatizing all its information technology functions in a whopping outsourcing deal expected to generate more than $100 million per year in IT services.
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Microsoft and Netscape
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A Tribute to New CIOs
In the wake of November's elections, several state and local governments will name new executives to take over top information technology jobs.
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How to Hire an Effective Consultant
Everyone has a consultant story that would make a good 'Dilbert' cartoon.
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Marketplace
Imaging Technology: Polaroid Pitches Facial Recognition as Alternative to Fingerprint ID
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