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Vinca unveils DOS/NetWare net utility
Known traditionally for its data protection products, Vinca Corp. entered a different market recently with the introduction of a localarea network tool that improves LAN file administration and increases server availability. The product, called File Commander, allows network administrators to acce
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Roster
The Federal Aviation Administration last week filled four top posts. Steve Brown was named FAA deputy associate administrator for air traffic services. He will manage the country's 35,000 air traffic controllers, engineers, technicians and support personnel. Brown was most recently president of the
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Critics question 'Star Wars' tech
While recent nuclear tests by developing nations have renewed calls for a secondgeneration 'Stars Wars' program, critics last week charged that the United States' proposed missile defense program cannot be deployed fast enough and may not work once fielded. The United States has been studying the
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Net Associates ships Sniffer for high-speed nets
Network Associates Inc. last week started shipping the Sniffer Pro 98 analysis suite and the optional Gigabit Sniffer Pro to assist network managers troubleshooting applications and network devices, even on highspeed networks. Announced in June, Sniffer Pro 98 and Gigabit Sniffer Pro are part of
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White House: E-forms bill impedes Y2K fix
The Clinton administration last week voiced concern that a bill calling for the government to distribute and accept forms electronically would delay agencies from completing Year 2000 fixes. The bill, called the Government Paperwork Elimination Act, would require the Commerce Department to create w
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IT warfare test starts
The Marine Corps was expected to kick off this past weekend the last of a series of experiments to test cuttingedge information technologies and new methods of conducting military operations in cities. Limited Objective Experiment 3 (LOE 3) is part of the Urban Warrior series of tests, which the M
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Senate curbs outsourcing bill
Bowing to pressure from labor unions, a Senate committee last week watered down a bill that would have forced agencies to put large portions of federal work, including information technology services, up for competition between government and the private sector. The Senate Governmental Affairs Comm
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Tools make Wintel low-cost option to NetPCs
The government information technology community has voted overwhelmingly for Wintel, the unavoidable combination of Microsoft Corp.'s system software and Intel Corp.'s microprocessors. But tight budgets are causing more federal IT managers to evaluate other lowercost alternatives, such as the Orac
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Amendment redefines pay-raise factor
I have never seen as unfriendly a political environment for federal employees as the present one. According to a recent report by the Federal Managers Association, lastminute action was required to stave off assaults against federal employees from a variety of sources. In one action, Rep. Steny Ho
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CBD Watch
Environmental Protection Agency. Information technology database system. Sol. RFQ #98013. (CBD, July 14) The EPA, Region 6, Dallas, intends to issue a procurement for an online data service. This service will allow access to online databases throughout the continental United States and its territo
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Industry Watch
Notebook prices cut Compaq Computer Corp., Houston, last week lowered prices on more than a dozen models of its Armada notebook computer. The company will make the same price cuts on its General Services Administration schedule. At the low end, Compaq cut pricing by 8.9 percent, from $1,919 to $1,7
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Clinton speaks out on Y2K
President Clinton, speaking publicly about the Year 2000 problem for the first time, drew praise from even some of his harshest critics last week after laying out his administration's work on fixing the government's computer systems for the millennium date change. However, those same critics said t
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Innovation, tech refresh fuel SEWP II
While so much business for commercial technology has shifted to the General Services Administration schedule, NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement II is proving to be a pipinghot contract, based on a sales report NASA published last month. According to NASA, SEWP II has done $
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Fedwire
AF awards sim training pacts The Air Force last week awarded contracts to five vendors under a $486 million program that will serve as the primary vehicle for training and simulation systems for the Air Force and other Defense organizations. Under the Training Systems Acquisition program, the Air F
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DOJ site shows you the scenes of the crimes
The Justice Department's Crime Mapping Research Center has launched a new World Wide Web page to provide access to the latest information on crime mapping, which uses computer systems to show trends in crime incidents by regions. Point your browser to www.ojp.usdoj.gov/cmrc to learn more about high
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Panasonic CF-M31 challenges Toshiba Libretto
With the introduction of its 2.2pound CFM31 subnotebook computer running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95, Panasonic Personal Computer Co. has launched an attack on Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.'s popular Libretto, which is now in its third generation of development. The CFM31 from Panaso
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20 Conference on Implementing Electronic Records Management: The State of the Art. Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Washington, D.C. Presented by J. Timothy Sprehe, president of Sprehe Information Management Associates, and Charles R. McClure, distinguished professor at Syracu
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Optivision helps DISA communicate with video
Optivision Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.based developer of professional network video communications products, recently provided the Defense Information Systems Agency with a suite of equipment that is changing the way the agency shares and accesses information. 'One of the things [the Defense Departm
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AMD's K6-2: A strong alternative to Intel's PII
As one of the last chip manufacturers battling for market share with Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has developed a new processor called the K62 that stands up to the ubiquitous Pentium II, both in performance and price, according to tests by the FCW Test Center. Released in late March,
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