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Geographic council backed
While federal agencies still take issue with a report calling for a central council to coordinate the federal, state and local collection of geographic data, some states are beginning to support the idea. North Carolina recently threw its weight behind the proposed National Spatial Data Council, a
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Air Force. Technology for readiness and sustainment. Sol. PRDA No. 9828MLKT. (CBD, Aug. 19) The Air Force Research Laboratory, Human Effectiveness Directorate, Crew Survivability and Logistics Division, is soliciting research proposals for the Technology for Readiness and Sustainment program at W
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NASA awards $2 billion pact NASA's Kennedy Space Center last week awarded a $2 billion contract to Space Gateway Support, Herndon, Va., to perform base operations at Kennedy and the Air Force's 45th Space Wing. The 45th Wing includes Cape Canaveral Air Station and Patrick Air Force Base. SGS is a j
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CSC nabs NSA outsourcing pact
The National Security Agency last week awarded an outsourcing contract for the maintenance and operation of several of its topsecret computer systems that for the first time involves the transition of NSA employees to the private sector. Computer Sciences Corp. last week announced that it had won
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Schools Should Use Caution When Spending E-Rate Money
Experts last week warned school districts that are waiting on E-Rate money to think twice before moving forward on any technology purchasing decisions
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GSA to use Seat Management for its offices
The General Services Administration is taking a stand behind its Seat Management program, becoming the first federal agency to announce plans to outsource its desktop systems, maintenance and support worldwide. Speaking at a GSA subcontracting forum last week, GSA Administrator David Barram, Federa
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VA site reacts to war movie
Steven Spielberg's latest epic, the World War II movie 'Saving Private Ryan,' seems to have stirred up more than sales at the box office. The Department of Veterans Affairs has set up a section on its World Wide Web site for those veterans who may suffer from flashbacks or posttraumatic stress dis
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ET, phone home.com
NASA's announcement last week that it would begin exploring the development of an interplanetary Internet gave new meaning to the tired phrase 'thinking out of the box.' In what could pass as a plot for an upcoming Steven Spielberg movie, NASA scientists last week detailed a plan to build an Intern
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Cohen: Y2K takes priority
The Defense Department has warned the military services that it will impose a moratorium on all software system modifications in calendar 1999 if necessary to permit all its information technology resources to focus on fixing the Year 2000 millennium bug, according to a memo signed earlier this mon
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DISA taps IBM for software pact IBM Corp. won a $299.7 million, fiveyear contract for the consolidation of IBM proprietary software maintenance contracts at the Defense mainframe processing megacenters operated by the Defense Information Systems Agency, as well as the DISA Contingency Operations C
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DOD research program seeks IT, doctrine link
Continuing an effort that began in 1995 to study the impact of information technology on military command and control, the Defense Department last month requested research proposals that can help DOD make better use of IT in the battlefield. The broad agency announcement (BAA) was issued by the Com
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Microsoft makes electronic commerce push in fed market
Microsoft Corp.'s federal operations last week launched an Internet server product designed for online commerce and laid out the company's strategy for the technology. Site Server 3.0, Commerce Edition, brings together components customers need to set up and manage electronic commerce applications.
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Cylink builds PKI for USPS secure postage
Cylink Corp. announced last week that it has developed a publickey infrastructure (PKI) for the U.S. Postal Service's program that secures communications for users downloading and printing postage from their PCs. Under USPS' Information Based Indicia Program (IBIP), which is in pilot testing now,
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CIOs address brain drain
Members of the Education and Training Committee of the CIO Council have begun work on recommendations to address the information technology 'brain drain' facing the federal government in the coming years. Committee member Emory Miller, director of professional development at the General Services Ad
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Agenda
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Intercepts
Y2K SHUFFLE: Deputy CIO Marv Langston has assumed overall managment of Y2K within the Pentagon. This indicates the increased seriousness with which top DOD leaders, including SecDef William Cohen, view the problem. Where does that leave the Pentagon's ''Y2K czar'' Bill Curtis, who reportedly found
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CBD Watch
Federal Election Commission. Assistance and training for federal political committees regarding the electronic filing of campaign finance reports. Sol. RFP983. (CBD, Aug. 10) The FEC is soliciting proposals from organizations for assistance to and training of federal political committees regarding
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Letter to the Editor
A chance at history For at least the past halfdozen years, Alan Proctor has both stimulated and exasperated his friends and colleagues in the federal information technology community. While Alan's direct style is offputting to some, his OpEd piece in FCW's Aug. 10 issue, 'WITS2001: Innovation or
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Federal Bytes
MIDNIGHT MADNESS. The General Services Administration promised it would release the solicitation for the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System 2001 on Aug. 7, and it kept its promise. Just barely. Repeated checks of the WITS2001 World Wide Web site that day turned up no request for propo
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