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Response Networks takes on 'brownouts'
Touting what it calls a new approach to application monitoring, Response Networks Inc. last month started shipping a product designed to diagnose the causes of 'brownouts,' or slowdowns in application performance. VeriServ measures application performance based on how quickly an application respond
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It is time for continuous improvement
This past winter, the press published numerous reports that said the Defense Department paid higher prices than in the past for solesource aerospace spare parts, which were classified as commercial items and bought without certified cost data, pursuant to recent procurement reforms [FCW, April 13
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Intergraph beefs up 3-D
Intergraph Corp. last week introduced the first of a new generation of graphics technology that is designed to dramatically improve 3D graphics performance on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NTbased workstations. Announced at the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphic's Siggraph '98 show in Orlando
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AMS wins $62M pact for support
The Minerals Management Service earlier this month awarded American Management Systems Inc. a $62 million contract to support information systems used to track about $4 billion a year in royalties paid to American Indian tribes and federal and state governments. The royalties come largely from comp
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HHS Web sites focus on minority health, cancer
The Department of Health and Human Services this summer launched two intriguing World Wide Web sites. Most recently, HHS launched a new Web site to make information available about its Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, a new program President Clinton unveiled earlier
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DOD ignores security policy
Despite a growing awareness of security threats and hacker attacks, many Defense Department agencies are ignoring a policy that requires the use of certified secure operating systems and are choosing instead to use commercial operating systems, such as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT, for critical app
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NARA proposes records policy
The National Archives and Records Administration last week proposed a policy for managing the federal government's electronic records that would require agencies to account for their digital documents but would not demand that agencies preserve documents in original formats. Only agencies that need
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Federal Bytes
I'll do the talking. If being president means you have to endure a constant barrage of partisan criticism (as well as questions about your sex life), it also apparently includes moments to savor. One of those occurred this month when President Clinton finally made his first speech on the Year 2000
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Industry Watch
DOD picks Apple The Defense Department has chosen Apple Computer Inc.'s WebObjects World Wide Web application development platform to use as part of an upgrade to DOD's health care information technology infrastructure. Apple Enterprise Software, the division that developed WebObjects, used the app
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Roster
John Douglass, the Navy's assistant secretary for research, development and acquisition, this month was selected to serve as president and chief executive officer of the Aerospace Industries Association. Douglass will retire from the Navy on Aug. 31 and will assume his duties as AIA president on Se
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NSA award for switches faces protest
The National Security Agency late last week was poised to award a contract for thousands of highspeed network switches to Fore Systems Inc., even as the deal becomes tangled in a lawsuit between Fore and another bidder. Fore late last month filed a complaint at the U.S. District Court in Pittsburg
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CBD Watch
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Ship reporting system. Sol. FY88WHALE. (CBD, July 17) NOAA and the Coast Guard seek a vendor to establish and maintain a ship reporting system off the East Coast of the United States to reduce the threat of ship strikes to right whales. Ship strikes
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AMD aims to boost government presence
In a push to appeal to what the company sees as a growing number of costconscious federal PC buyers, chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) launched a program to increase its presence in the federal market. The Government Connection program combines an initiative to educate agencies a
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GPO bill is 'every nightmare come true'
The Senate wants to give a goingaway gift in the form of the Wendell H. Ford Government Publications Reform Act of 1998 to one of its retiring distinguished members. Introduced by Sen. John Warner (RVa.) as S. 2288, the bill is every nightmare come true for publishing officials in executive b
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Fedwire
Bill would nix health identifier Citing privacy concerns, Sen. Conrad Burns (RMont.) last week introduced legislation that would repeal a previous law directing the government to assign citizens a standard identification code for obtaining health care. Burns said the law, part of the Health Insura
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Bay, HP deliver 10/100 Ethernet switches
Bay Networks Inc. and HewlettPackard Co. earlier this month unveiled new workgroup switches designed for the 10/100 Ethernet environment and targeted toward priceconscious users. The Bay stackable switch and the HP standalone switch are aimed at the workgroup area, but they differ on features an
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Getting a good grip
Although the handheld computer industry seems to lurch from year to year, with vendors and products coming and going, the market has generated enough business to foster continued development of the technology. Today, the concept of handheld has expanded from the original personal digital assistants
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Possible CPI changes threaten retirees' pockets
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calculates the consumer price index, which is the principal source of information on trends in consumer prices and inflation in the United States, by tracking prices for a fixed 'market basket' of goods and services that consumers purchase for daytoday living.
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Tech, Hill issues leave border control in limbo
Despite a looming Sept. 30 deadline, a top Immigration and Naturalization Service official told Congress last week that the agency does not know when it will have in place a controversial system designed to monitor border crossings. The INS would use the entry/exit control system to keep track of i
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