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DIA taps six firms for intell BPAs
The Defense Intelligence Agency last week awarded blanket purchase agreements to six vendors under a $300 million program that will serve as one of the primary vehicles of information technology services for the Defense intelligence community. DIA tapped Computer Sciences Corp., Litton/PRC Inc. and
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FBI defends user fee to support computerized background checks
The FBI today defended its proposal to levy a user fee to support the operation of a congressionally mandated system that will instantly run background checks on would-be gun buyers.
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GAO says agency systems headed for Y2K breakdown
Federal agencies now stand to not have many of their computer systems fixed in time for the new millennium, the General Accounting Office told Congress today.
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Overworked agencies not complying with EFOIA
Officials from federal agencies told members of Congress yesterday that huge backlogs of processing paper documents have prevented them from complying with a law that requires agencies to disseminate more information electronically.
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Protest delays GSA's N.Y. telecom buy
The pace and intensity of cyberattacks against Defense Department computers and networks has increased so much that the Pentagon now considers itself continually at war.
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GTSI adds seat management to NIH ECS II
Government Technology Services Inc. today announced that it would add socalled seat management services to its National Institutes of Health's Electronic Computer Store II contract.
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Report: Agencies ignore security standard, go commercial
Fourteen civilian agencies are using a commercial security technology that is not allowed under federal standards for encryption and digital signatures, according to a report released today by the company that designed the technology.
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Beefed-up command and control system doubles soldiers' battlefield vision
The newest version of the Global Command and Control System (GCCS) recently fielded by the Defense Information Systems Agency nearly doubles the number of friendly or enemy forces that a user can view, according to a top DISA official.
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Army, Congress at odds over WLMP
The Army and Congress remain at loggerheads on the service's $1 billion project to outsource key portions of the Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program (WLMP), with Capitol Hill vowing to stop the program and the Army planning to proceed.
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OMB drops three on Year 2000 tier
The departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Interior have slowed in their efforts to fix Year 2000 problems in the past three months, according to officials familiar with a draft report by the Office of Management and Budget.
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Commerce procurement reinvention shows the way
The Commerce Department recently conducted its third annual joint training conference for information technology and procurement professionals. The conference, which was held in Williamsburg, Va., illustrates how times have changed. A decade ago, many government IT professionals would rather have spent time with their dentist than with their counterparts in the procurement profession.
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CSC employee bikes to fight AIDS
Two summers ago, when Computer Sciences Corp. employee Karen Clark saw the sea of bike riders on the Mall in Washington, D.C., ending their 250mile ride to raise money for AIDS research, she did not hesitate to join them the following year in the annual AIDS Ride.
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FTC page provides tools for hanging up on marketers
Tired of receiving those annoying calls from telemarketers just as you are ready to sit down to dinner? If so, point your browser to www.ftc.gov/privacy to take a peek at the Federal Trade Commission's new World Wide Web page designed to inform the public on how to prevent credit bureaus, direct marketers and state departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) from sharing personal information the kind of information that may end up in telemarketers' hands.
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Leasing: Still a tough sell in federal market
A year ago, observers saw leasing as the next wave that would sweep through federal procurement, providing a relatively painless way for cashstrapped agencies to get their hands on the latest technology. By this fiscal year's fourthquarter rush, many people assumed that leasing would be taking up a significant portion of agency information technology dollars.
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Senate urges privatizing DOD finance
The Senate version of the Defense authorization bill passed last month requires the Defense Department to study the feasibility of privatizing the core operations of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service.
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A LEGAL VIEW: Is a plan needed for subcontracting?
A contractor raised the following topic: We have been told that our company needs to develop a plan for subcontracting with small businesses to receive a government contract. Is this true? What should be in the plan?
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Fifth-graders pick Navy ship's name
A new Navy hightech research ship that will map the world's oceans will be named USNS Bruce Heezen, which was the winning entry from a class of nine fifthgraders from Oak Lawn Elementary School, Cranston, R.I.
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NEAT computer tracks asteroids
NASA astronomers soon will begin using a new computer and data analysis hardware to double their efforts to find and track asteroids that may have orbits that come close to Earth.
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Vendor group asks Congress to kill ITOP II
Maintaining that agencies have created too many similar acquisition vehicles, an industry group last week asked Congress to terminate a $10 billion governmentwide contract planned by the Transportation Department.
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