Acquisition
Financial Software: Adding up the Cost of Public Services
Providing a true picture of the cost of government services has long been the holy grail of state and local government finance departments.
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Navy upgrades tactical systems
The Navy last month awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. two contracts potentially worth more than $473 million to integrate commercial offtheshelf information technology into the entire inventory of Navy tactical display and computing systems. In the most recent and lucrative award, Lockheed Martin col
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Opposition grows to bill revamping GPO
Opposition to a bill overhauling the Government Printing Office mounted last week as opponents complained to the bill's Senate sponsors, saying it will turn back the clock on procurement reform, expand the reach of GPO and cost taxpayers more money [FCW, July 20]. Reaction to the bill, named for Se
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Funding shortage stymies USDA technology efforts
While streamlining efforts have saved the Agriculture Department billions of dollars over the last four years, funding constraints have hampered the progress of departmentwide technology programs and threatened the USDA's ability to realize further savings, a USDA official told a Senate panel last
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Boosting Wang's recovery
James Hogan, president of Wang Government Services, may not have much experience with the federal information technology market, but that does not seem to have hindered his ability to run a company geared toward serving federal agencies. Hogan graduated from the General Electric Co. training center
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Federal Bytes
Russian to keep up The Defense Special Weapons Agency recently entered into cooperative agreements with commercial enterprises in the former Soviet Union for work related to nuclear weapons disposal and reduction treaties. But it seems the Defense Finance and Accounting Service can learn something
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FSS to run financial software sked
The General Services Administration plans to move responsibility for its financial management software from the Federal Technology Service into the general information technology products and services schedule managed by the Federal Supply Service (FSS). FTS officials had been working for months wi
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Roster
President Clinton last month nominated Sylvia Mathews to become deputy director of the Office Management and Budget. Mathews, one of Clinton's economic and domestic policy advisers, has served as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff since January 1997. Brig. Gen. Albert Madora, depu
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Letter to the Editor
Army logistics revisited In elaboration of the letter from Bob Eufinger at the Army Logistics Systems Support Center (LSSC) [FCW, June 22] regarding the Wholesale Logistics Modernization Plan, formerly the Logistics Modernization program effort, the Army proceeded on a major effort without planning
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FBI, DOD sites strip away the gloss
The FBI and the Defense Department have given new looks to their central World Wide Web sites, and both have opted to defy convention by stripping down, rather than dressing up, the appearance of those sites. The newly designed FBI home page (www.fbi.gov) supplants the somewhat jazzy, iconsmattere
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Downey calls for ITS Y2K fix
Mortimer Downey, deputy secretary of the Transportation Department, last week called for federal, state and local cooperation and guidance to help fix the Year 2000 problem in Intelligent Transportation Systems technology. ITS, a joint effort among federal, state and local governments, is designed
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Tools aim to make NT admin a snap
So you're migrating your agency's network to Microsoft Corp.'s muchballyhooed Windows NT platform. You've set up the necessary user accounts, local and global groups and appropriate domain trust relationships. You give yourself a welldeserved pat on the back and prepare to push the daytoday adm
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Balancing DOD's security, tech needs
At a time of such heightened awareness of the security risks associated with technology, no one seemingly would advocate allowing users to disregard security policies in the interests of buying cheaper, faster commercial computers. But many Defense Department organizations have found themselves nee
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GAO: Rogue networks thwart DISN
The continued operation of separate telecommunications networks by the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps and other Defense Department agencies threatens the viability of the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) to provide a global commonuser network for DOD users worldwide, acc
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Museum to honor victims of Oklahoma bombing
The Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation has begun the search for designers to create an interactive museum at the site of the 1995 bombing that killed 168 people. The $7 million interactive museum represents the second phase of the foundation's memorial project, and officials with the founda
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Toshiba unveils notebook offerings
Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. last week revamped its notebook computer offerings by adding a new model to each of its product lines, including a highly configurable version of the Tecra. The new models include the Tecra 8000 at the high end, the Satellite 4000 at the midrange and the Por
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Industry Watch
BTG sells off some GTSI stock BTG Inc. last week announced it had sold off 37 percent of its share of stock in Government Technology Services Inc. BTG sold 1.1 million of its 3 million shares of GTSI stock that it had received when GTSI acquired BTG's product reseller business in January. BTG plans
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Army, AF tap 3 for grab-bag buy
The Army and the Air Force last week awarded contracts to three vendors under a $5 billion program to provide an extensive range of services and parts that are needed to support aging missioncritical systems throughout the federal government. The Rapid Response to Critical Systems Requirements (R2
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CSC's winning summer
Officials at the federal business unit of Computer Sciences Corp. might someday look back at June 1998 and realize it was a pivotal month in the organization's evolution in the new government procurement environment. CSC landed several contracts during the month, including the Outsourcing Desktop I
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