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Video Warrant System Notebook
Organizational Payback: Law enforcement personnel can videoconference with judges to request warrants, reducing travel time and administrative overhead.
People
Georgia's Legal Moves
In 1997, Gwinnett County applied for and received a special writ from the state Supreme Court to develop the video warrant system as a test.
Digital Government
GSA upholds Boeing protest of Seat Management
The General Services Administration has sustained Boeing Information Services' agencylevel protest against GSA's $9 billion Seat Management contract, but work on the contract will continue until a final decision is announced. The agency protest official delivered the response to Boeing and GSA Aug
Digital Government
Entrust clears fourth hurdle in FIPS validation
Entrust Technologies Inc., which is steadily growing its federal market penetration in the security arena, has received its fourth certificate validating that its products meet a federal government standard for protecting unclassified information. Version 4.0 of the company's cryptographic module
Digital Government
GBS hits snag
The Defense Department's Global Broadcast Service (GBS), a worldwide network designed to give commanders access to hundreds of channels of intelligence, imagery and live video feeds, has run into hardware and software problems that have delayed deployment of the system by at least three months. Acc
Digital Government
Injured feds: Only 1 year is guaranteed
Federal employees who must leave their jobs because of injuries covered by workers' compensation benefits cannot expect their agencies to hold their jobs for them for more than a year while they recuperate. But agencies must at least give these employees 'priority consideration' for equivalent jobs
Digital Government
Industry Watch
Lockheed ships training unit Lockheed Martin Information Systems recently completed the first productionline model of the Close Combat Tactical Trainer simulation system for the Army's M1A1 main battle tank. The CCTT system provides distributed, realtime, interactive training for individual or co
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FAA sets course for free flight
In response to earlier criticism, the Federal Aviation Administration is expected to accept a new scaledback plan that significantly restructures the agency's Flight 2000 program, which will test a revolutionary air traffic management concept. Flight 2000 will test new technologies for 'free fligh
Digital Government
Efficiency lost in quest for perfect competition
In an OpEd commentary last year, I made the statement that if I were in charge of the Air Force's Desktop V replacement, I would conduct a General Services Administration schedulestyle blanket purchase agreement competition. After reviewing the Air Force's new BPA procedures, I am afraid I would
Digital Government
Roster
John E. Jones has been named deputy director of the National Weather Service and deputy assistant administrator of weather services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Jones has served as interim deputy since April. Before that he was deputy director of the NWS' Eastern region
Digital Government
IT wage gap does not compute
A friend mentioned recently that his son, a 25yearold college graduate, had accepted a computing job with a hightech company in the Southwest for an annual salary of $85,000. One's first thought might be, 'Sure beats what I made just out of school.' And that thought could be followed by, 'How ca
Digital Government
CBD Watch
Defense Supply Service. U.S. Court of Appeals/Wang system conversion. Sol. DASW0198Q0801. (CBD, Aug. 25) The Defense Supply Service Washington, on behalf of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, intends to acquire network and programming services to replace all of the court's software
Digital Government
FAA taps vendor group for help on $2B telecom pact
To reduce the risks of rolling out a $2.75 billion telecommunications procurement, the Federal Aviation Administration has teamed up with an industry group to formulate an acquisition strategy. The FAA and the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA) will work together o
Digital Government
DSL puts users on fast track
It takes time to translate new technology into common tools that are costeffective and easy to deploy. However, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) has begun to reward the trust of pioneering federal users by proving to be an efficient, economical way to quickly send and receive data across existing cop
Digital Government
Raise won't fix IT pay gap
President Clinton this month approved a 3.6 percent pay raise in 1999 for federal civilian employees and military personnel, and he proposed a 4.4 percent increase for the following year. However, critics said the increase is not enough to lure workers into government information technology. 'An in
Digital Government
Compaq enters fingerprint ID market
Compaq Computer Corp. this month entered the fingerprint identification market, releasing a combination hardware/software product for verifying the identity of someone attempting to access a computer network. Using a fingerprint reader by Identicator Technology, San Bruno, Calif., Compaq software s
Digital Government
Customs will use StarLive for broadcast
The Customs Service will use new video streaming technology from Starlight Networks Inc., to broadcast live over the Internet a briefing on a system for collecting information from importers. The briefing, planned for Sept. 3, will be distributed over the Internet at the same time it is broadcast b
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