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Exchange Standard
Directories, the heart of all corporate networks and the foundation for applications such as email, have created problems for federal network managers who have struggled to keep their disparate directories in sync. To help with this task, vendors have begun moving to a standard called Lightweight
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PTO awards $172 million data capture pact
The Patent and Trademark Office this month awarded a $172 million contract to Reed Technology and Information Services Inc. to convert hardcopy patent application files into electronic form. Under the Patent Data Capture contract, RTIS Government Services will convert patent application files into
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GIS helps sweep Hawaiian island
HONOLULU The Navy has launched an unprecedented datagathering and management effort to help coordinate restoration of a Hawaiian island rich in archaeological and cultural treasures that was ravaged by nearly 50 years of bombing and shelling carried out in U.S. target practice. The Navy is requi
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Roster
David Tuttle, former director of the Federal Aviation Administration's national airspace system and the Flight 2000 program, this month was appointed senior vice president for corporate development at Universal Systems & Technology Inc. NASA has named Edward Heffernan as associate administrator for
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GSA to use electronic posting system for solicitations
The General Services Administration starting next month will use a new electronic posting system for solicitations in order to save money and speed up procurement time and has drafted a plan to take the system governmentwide. Last month, GSA issued a memo stating that starting Oct. 1 it will use th
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GAO to study electronic recordkeeping
Concerned that the government's recordkeeping rules may be outmoded, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee this summer asked the General Accounting Office to study how information technology affects records management. In a letter sent to GAO in midJuly, Sen. Fred Thompson (RTenn.), who heads
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NASA veteran lands on Hill
Unlike many of the attorneys and analysts who work on the staffs of congressional oversight committees, Delores Moorehead brings years of federal agency experience to her job at the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs. Moorehead, the committee's special assistant for information management and tec
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Federal Bytes
BOOTH JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY. The TRW Inc. booth at the Air Force Information Technology Conference (AFITC) in Montgomery, Ala., once again served as a platform for the world's superheroes. You may recall that earlier this year, we reported seeing Xena, Warrior Princess, slaying the evil forc
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FBI Promotes LEO, an AOL-like Resource for Police Officers
FBI Promotes LEO, an AOL-like Resource for Police Officers
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OAO ranked top ODIN bidder
While NASA awarded contracts to all seven bidders in the recent Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN) contract, OAO Corp. outpaced the other vendors in all the main categories analyzed in the competition, according to a recently released sourceselection document. NASA officials briefly di
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Fedwire
Horn to release Y2K report cards Rep. Stephen Horn (RCalif.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology, this week will release grades to evaluate the federal government's progress toward solving the Year 2000 problem. Horn has graded agencies based on
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Industry Watch
CDW opens government office CDW Computer Centers Inc. last week announced a new subsidiary devoted to the government market, CDW Government Inc. William Shafley has been named as vice president of sales. CDWG's national sales office will be headquartered in Chantilly, Va., and will include a field
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INS cancels IV&V portion of IS development program
The Immigration and Naturalization Service has canceled a key portion of a huge program for continuing the development of the agency's information systems including systems border agents use to verify aliens' identities and systems INS workers use to process information on citizenship candidates.
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Hurricane prompts FEMA network upgrade
As Hurricane Bonnie pounded the North Carolina coast late last month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's World Wide Web site received nearly 2.5 million hits a day almost 10 times greater than regular daily activity. When the number of daily hits temporarily caused the site to crash, FEMA
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Set-Asides
GSA releases procurement paper The General Services Administration's Office of Information Technology last week released a white paper outlining the advantages and disadvantages of IT acquisition vehicles. Procurement reform laws passed in the past few years created new options for IT acquisition.
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PC vendors wage price war
MONTGOMERY, Ala. With more than a bit of showbiz flair, PC vendors at the annual Air Force Information Technology Conference here kicked off the last, key month of the federal buying season with a price war. Compared with last year, when competition faded due to the disappearance of Zenith Data
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CDSI continues post-merger metamorphosis
In a few weeks, Computer Data Systems Inc. will change its name to ACS Government Solutions Group, but the new moniker tells only part of the story of the developments of the past two years at the Rockville, Md.based federal systems integrator. The name change caps a merger announced last year whe
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CBD Watch
Air Force Research Laboratory. Powered lowcost autonomous attack system. Sol. MNK PRDA980004. (CBD, Sept. 2) The Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Assessment and Demonstrations Division is interested in receiving proposals for the Powered LowCost Autonomous Attack System adv
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Roster Change
Skip Kemerer, previously NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement II chief and head of the Multiservices/ADP Procurement Branch at Goddard Space Flight Center, has accepted a job at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as a senior computer specialist. Patrick Logan, assistant director
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