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CBO cooks up benefits comparison
Hold on to your wallet! A report issued by the Congressional Budget Office last month suggested that federal workers receive more generous benefits then privatesector employees. It is only a matter of time before someone maybe the president, maybe a congressman uses that report to justify keep
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Piloting FAA's modernization
When the Federal Aviation Administration tapped Steven Zaidman as the agency's associate administrator for research and acquisitions in July, he said people did not know whether to congratulate him or send condolences. 'I said neither,' said Zaidman, a 21year veteran of the FAA. 'It's a challengin
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Lockheed wins $3.4B NASA prize
In one of the largest information technologyrelated procurements in civilian agency history, NASA last week awarded Lockheed Martin Space Operations Co. a $3.4 billion contract to manage the space agency's entire space operation infrastructure. The Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC) cal
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Aldmyr aims to intercept DOD travel biz
With the Defense Travel System still several years from full deployment, software vendor Aldmyr Systems Inc. has been steadily developing Defense Department clientele for its own travel management system, which company officials are positioning as a DTS alternative, at least for the short term. DTS
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Navy tech aids Swissair search
To help locate debris from Swissair Flight 111, which crashed off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, earlier this month, the Navy has dispatched an experimental underwater minedetection system far more capable than the Navy system used for searchandrecovery operations following the crash of TWA Flight 8
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Future shock: Air Force conducts battle experiment
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. The Air Force last week launched the first in a series of experiments designed to test cuttingedge information technologies that will help the Air Force completely reinvent the way it wages war in the 21st century. Known as the Expeditionary Force Experiment (EFX) 98,
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DOD's Hamre spells out Web rules
Just one week after senior Defense Department officials expressed concern over the posting of sensitive information on DOD World Wide Web sites, Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre last week issued a departmentwide action plan to boost DOD's Web security policy. The move was a response to concer
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DOD issues plan for scrubbing Web sites
Just one week after senior Defense Department officials expressed concern over the posting of sensitive information on DOD World Wide Web sites, Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre today issued a departmentwide action plan to tighten DOD's Web security policy.
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Widespread security flaws expose sensitive public info
Hackers can access sensitive medical and financial information on individuals because of widespread security weaknesses in agency computer systems, officials told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee today.
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Pentagon says attack on blood data banks 'simulated'
A Defense Department Red Team,'' not real hackers, mounted a simulated attack last year on DOD medical databases containing blood type information, according to a Pentagon spokeswoman.
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Agencies struggling with maintaining electronic records
Federal agencies, including the agency in charge of government recordkeeping, are not ready to account for and maintain email and word processing files as ordered by a federal court, said National Archives and Records Administration Archivist John Carlin on Monday.
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Stopwatch legislation serves no one
In the waning days of any legislative year, Congress often finds itself racing against the clock to ensure that certain bills are passed before it adjourns. Normal debate and consideration are sacrificed even on complex and controversial legislation in order to complete work on a wide range of issues.
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Apple responds to iMac demand
Apple Computer Inc.'s people-friendly iMac is moving into the federal government, a move neither analysts nor the company expected.
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Services fuel GSA boom
Business on the General Services Administration schedule has surged over the past year to about $4.5 billion, nearly doubling fiscal 1997 sales and more than tripling 1996 results.
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Sprint seeks $2M in FTS 2000 charges
Sprint last week filed a complaint with the General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals (GSBCA) charging that GSA's Federal Technology Service owes the company about $2 million in withheld fees that had been billed to users of the FTS 2000 long-distance network.
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Story provides map for reinvention efforts
While reading Sensemaking in Organizations, by University of Michigan management professor Karl E. Weick, I came across a story filled with significance for anyone engaged in the work of reinventing government.
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Creating virtual meeting rooms
For a hardware and software investment of less than $1 million, NASA is using collaborative computing tools to transform the way it works. During the past two months, the space agency has switched on a roomful of the latest collaboration tools in each of its 10 research centers, providing scientists throughout the country with the means to meet online.
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Federal Bytes
It seems the president's problems over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky may have more than just congressional Democrats trying to distance themselves from the White House.
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Fedwire
The Navy last week named a longtime civilian logistics and acquisition specialist to serve as its new chief information officer. Dan Porter succeeds Ann Miller, who will continue to serve as deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for command, control, communications, computers and information systems/electronic warfare and space.
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