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UCLA Web Site Isolates the Roots of Urban Decay
In its final stages, urban blight is easy to spot.
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The new state and local power tool
For some state and local government executives, geographic information systems have become a political power tool. Take the case of Arkansas Secretary of State Sharon Priest, who this year will use GIS to help redraw the state's political boundaries.
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Prism Software Aids Procurement Work Flow
The District of Columbia's Office of Contracting and Procurement recently tapped Compusearch Software Systems Inc., McLean, Va., to provide a procurement management software system dubbed Prism.
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Online Software Store for Government Shoppers Debuts
A new online software store specifically for government shoppers recently opened its doors at www.beyond.com/gov.htm.
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Risk Management
Baseball players may earn glory by hitting the ball only three of every 10 times they come to the plate, but for information technology managers, there are no accolades given out for batting .300 when it comes to bringing in projects on time and on budget.
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Data for Hire
When a contingent of lawyers, bankers, insurance executives and retailers approached Kansas officials in 1989 with an idea for developing a new way of delivering mission critical public information to businesses, the state balked.
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DOD vs. GSA: The two faces of EC emerge
The Defense Department this month plans to test a World Wide Webbased search engine that will provide a single point of entry for vendors searching for business opportunities across the entire department, even though a group of civilian and military agencies also is working to take a similar syste
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Letters to the Editor
iMac supports printers Although I found it to be generally balanced and well reported, I find one statement in the article 'Apple responds to iMac demand' [FCW, Sept. 21] to be unnecessarily inflammatory and offensive. Roger Kay, an analyst at International Data Corp., said the iMac doesn't 'have a
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Fedwire
GSA spearheads security effort The Clinton administration last month tapped the General Services Administration to lead the federalsector effort to protect critical infrastructures. At the request of the National Security Council and the Office of Management and Budget, GSA is working to identify
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Wireless net proves field ready
Testing By Chip Pettirossi Just as cellular telephones introduced a new kind of personal mobility, wireless networks make yet another aspect of modern life portable. No longer must computer users be tied to stationary machines to access a network networking is now possible even without hard wirin
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FAA catches up on Y2K fixes
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration last week told Congress that the agency has fixed nearly all of its missioncritical computer systems for the Year 2000 bug and now must begin testing.
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Online window shopping
Reacting to widespread use of the Internet and government credit cards, an increasing number of agencies are building electronic catalogs and electronic malls that allow users to browse merchandise offered by federal contractors and place orders online. Agencies such as the Defense Logistics Agency
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Roster Change
President Clinton has nominated Army Maj. Gen. James King to be director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. The president also nominated King for a promotion to lieutenant general. King now serves as acting director of NIMA. Thomas McSweeny has been named associate administrator for regula
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New strategy for financial software takes shape
A government group last week outlined changes being considered as part of the longawaited overhaul of the government program for buying commercial financial management system (FMS) software. The Joint Financial Management Improvement Program proposed changes to the list of core financial systems r
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Software tool ports Unix apps to NT
Testing by Paul Ferrill and Mark Fuller As Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT makes inroads into the highend workstation market, government users may need to port software written for Unix platforms to Windows NT. Softway Systems Inc.'s Interix attempts to make the process of porting Unixbased code as
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FAA plans $1B comm upgrade
The Federal Aviation Administration last month detailed its plans to alleviate the growing congestion of the airwaves that link pilots and air traffic controllers by undertaking a $1 billion upgrade of the agency's air and ground communications systems. The Next Generation Air/Ground Communications
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Panel backs GILS for data sharing
A study produced for an intergovernmental group last month backed a controversial online indexing system as the best available solution for coordinating government information and federal, state and local services. The study suggested that the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) could pro
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Microsoft, Compaq team on NT/Unix link
Microsoft Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. last month formed a joint initiative to create greater interoperability between Windows NT and Compaq's Digital and Tandem operating systems for highend systems users. The partnership comes as Compaq moves to take advantage of technologies acquired when th
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DOD PKI plan raises liability, relevance issues
The Defense Department is building a system for communicating with its contractors using dualkey encryption. This initiative will make it possible for DOD and its contractors to conduct paperless contracting in nearly complete security. But DOD and the private sector should recognize that DOD's pl
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