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A Long Road to Health for Failed California Child Support Project
A Long Road to Health for Failed California Child Support Project
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LAN-based videoconferencing now on GSA
Intelect Visual Communications Corp. announced this month that Klein Technologies Inc. would carry IVC's localarea networkbased videoconferencing products on the General Services Administration schedule. Many videoconferencing products are based on the H.320 protocol for transmitting data across
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VA project lets workers do self-service HR
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $1.6 million contract to Talx Corp., St. Louis, to develop an internal World Wide Web site that will allow VA employees to view and update their personal employment information. The contract is part of a VA project to streamline the often timeconsum
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NASA to put Net in the stars
NASA last week announced plans for a new initiative to extend its research efforts to the stars by developing an Internetlike network in space for future missions and potential human colonization on other planets. Researchers soon will begin exploring ways that commercial Internet research can com
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CBD Watch
Army. Personal Computer3. Sol. DAAB0798RV004. (CBD, Aug. 4) The Army's CommunicationsElectronics Command Acquisition CenterWashington intends to acquire for the Army, the Defense Department and other federal agencies commercial PCs, related peripherals, office automation software items and in
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War College embarks on 'golden age'
Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski officially took over as president of the Naval War College last month, amid plans to take on new missions to develop warfare concepts and doctrine as well as to place more emphasis on networkcentric warfare. At a changeofcommand ceremony, Adm. Jay Johnson, chief of nav
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IT at core of mission
Debra M. Filippi entered a brave new world 10 months ago when she accepted the post of deputy assistant chief of staff for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) systems integration for the Marine Corps. But the 42yearold Arlington, Va., native brought more than two de
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IEEE picks Lucent wireless proposal
An international standards organization last month chose a proposal by Lucent Technologies Inc. and Harris Corp. as the standard for sending wireless data at more than five times the speed of many existing wireless networks a development that should bode well for the military and other agencies.
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Task force to make IT accessible to disabled
The Clinton administration has convened a new public/private task force to help design products that would enable people with disabilities to use technology more easily. Responding to criticism that the government has not done enough to help disabled individuals gain access to information technolog
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Get good legal help for appeal
A recent decision by the Merit Systems Protection Board points out the necessity of good legal representation when attempting to appeal an adverse action. The case involved a postal employee who was fired for being absent without leave one time too many. USPS removed this employee Nov. 10, 1994, fo
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GAO questions success of Census test
Before undertaking the next national head count in 2000, the Census Bureau must fix software bugs in the imaging system designed to process the billion pages of census forms it will receive, according to General Accounting Office officials testifying before a Senate committee last month. Speaking t
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GPS Plots the Public Sector
During the Age of Exploration, the difference between a good map and a bad one often meant the difference between a successful voyage and ending up feeding the fishes.
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DISA unveils new plans for DMS
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week confirmed two changes to the Defense Message System that respond to concerns voiced by the nuclear community and to directions from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to insert commercial products. DISA will operate three Defense Message Transition Centers to
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Tools for managing the desktop
As federal agencies struggle to gain better control over the desktop computers on their networks, they are increasingly choosing products and services to help give them a global, enterprise view of all systems, down to the desktop level. The trend toward improving desktop systems management has bec
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INS: Splitting agency would harm info tech
A bill that would remove border control duties from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and place them in a new agency is speeding its way through Congress. But some observers say the bill could undo vital information links the federal government uses to process immigrants. Rep. Hal Rogers (
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Defense mulls securing comm with vendors
The Defense Department last week released a request for information for technology that would allow defense contractors and suppliers to encrypt their communications with the department. DOD is interested in using a publickey infrastructure (PKI), which uses digital signature and encryption techni
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Federal Bytes
HE SAID IT. Vinton Cerf, known as the father of the Internet because he developed TCP/IP, the computer language that gave birth to the Internet, recently tickled a group of NASA scientists during his speech about plans to build an Internet in space so that future colonies of astronauts could easily
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Industry Watch
Raytheon nabs NASA pact NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week tapped Raytheon STX for a data system development and operation contract with a ceiling of $60 million. This new requirement calls for the contractor to support the development and operation of science data analysis systems for sele
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Agenda
912 1998 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Radio and Wireless Conference. Sheraton Hotel. Colorado Springs, Colo. Sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, IEEE and the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences. Topics will include systems, active components,
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