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Y2K an early show in Labor data
The Labor Department has identified five entities in which employment security agencies are in danger of missing the Year 2000 deadline that occurs in January 1999 for their primary applications.
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GSA close to awarding FTS 2000 contract extensions
General Services Administration officials said last week that they were on the verge of awarding extensions to AT&T and Sprint to allow the FTS 2000 vendors to provide longdistance service for up to two years after the FTS 2000 contract expires in three weeks. Sandy Bates, deputy commissioner of G
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FAA looks abroad for oceanic ATC solution
Frustrated in developing a system for controllers to use to separate air traffic over the ocean, the Federal Aviation Administration may scrap its plans in favor of using a system developed for one of its foreign counterparts. The oceanic modernization program is supposed to improve pilot/controlle
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EDS gets $40M order
Electronic Data Systems Corp. maintained its position as the lead shipboard integrator for the Navy's program to harness the power of commercial networks and computers with a $40 million delivery order to supply 20 or more ships in two carrier battle groups and two amphibious ready groups. The Spac
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SAIC earns $263M EPA contract The Environmental Protection Agency last week awarded Science Applications International Corp. a $262.9 million systems development contract to support its most missioncritical applications, including the Safe Drinking Water Information System and systems used to trac
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Roster
Steve Howard, chief information officer at the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service, this month said he plans to retire from government at the end of the year. Howard said FTS has not yet named a replacement. Carleton Jones, former president of Vanstar Government Systems Inc
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Compaq revamps Prosignia products
Compaq Computer Corp. last week introduced a new line of notebooks, desktops and servers with a specialservices package aimed at small and mediumsize organizations. The Prosignia Desktop 300s come with an Intel Corp. Celeron or Pentium II processor as well as CDROM and Digital Video Disc drives.
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Vanstar chief 'ready to do something else'
Carleton Jones, president of Vanstar Government Systems Inc., has decided to leave the company. Jones, who was president of Sysorex Information Systems Inc. before it was purchased by Vanstar Corp. last year, said he was satisfied with the work he has done, and his decision to leave was not related
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Guidance governs shared Web sites
The General Services Administration recently released draft guidance outlining how agencies that operate World Wide Web sites containing other agencies' or federal organizations' material should charge for those services and how they should allocate costs. While the majority of agencies today do no
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Intergraph CEO aims to make most of fed market
Not many people can remember where they were and what they were doing at precisely 7:51 a.m. Dec. 27, 1968 the launch time of Apollo 8 and the beginning of America's first manned lunarorbital mission. But Jim Meadlock can. At the time, Meadlock, now chief executive officer of Intergraph Corp., a
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Clemins calls for DODwide intranet
Adm. Archie Clemins, commander of the Pacific Fleet and the driving force behind the program that will allow the Navy to fight future battles using commercial networks and computers, this month called for a grander plan to build a worldwide intranet to link the three military services. Clemins said
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Intercepts
IT21 IN THE GULF. Last week, less than two years after Adm. Archie Clemins unveiled the commercially based Information Technology for the 21st Century as the smarter, faster way to equip Navy ships with advanced communications and computer systems, the USS Enterprise battle group steamed into the
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Comark surges to $50 million milestone
Acquisitions, mergers and upandcoming companies are causing a shift in the federal reseller market. One company making itself known is Comark Federal Systems, which this year is expected to pass the major milestone of $50 million in sales. Comark's sales have ballooned from $19.7 million in 1996
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Industry Watch
OAO wins lion's share of ODIN NASA this month awarded OAO Corp. the largest portion of the massive Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN), one of the first large federal initiatives that allows agencies to privatize the desktop environment. The contract, which initially will be worth $154 m
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Round Two
A phone number for Novell Inc. that appeared in the Oct. 19 review of NetWare 5.0 was incorrect. The correct phone number is (800) 3214272. In the Nov. 2 review of computerbased training, the phone number for Asymetrix Learning Systems Inc. was incorrect. The correct number is (800) 4486543.
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GTE's inResponse tackles deluge of e-mail from Web
GTE unveiled a product last month that will help agency Webmasters manage the growing amount of email sent to their agencies' World Wide Web sites. The tool, called inResponse, is an email response management product that helps Webmasters route, respond to and track email inquiries sent from Web
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Six sensational systems
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk For this comparison of the latest desktop PCs, it's a good thing the numbers singled out a winner although just barely because we would have had a hard time choosing.
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Trade system gathers international support
Members of the international trade community earlier this month threw their support behind a U.S. government plan to build a $256 million computer system for processing imports and exports. The International Trade Data System ultimately would link 350,000 businesses with 104 U.S. federal agencies t
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Executive training gains momentum
David Hammond was becoming increasingly frustrated with his job at the Coast Guard. Changes in the way his shore facilities division was managed were not going as quickly or smoothly as he had expected. After a particularly contentious meeting one day last year, he went directly to his desk and fil
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