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U.S. to share Y2K nuclear data
The Pentagon plans to share data with the world's other nuclear powers to ensure that the Year 2000 millennium bug does not lead to an accidental nuclear exchange.
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Sprint unveils new ATM-based service
Although no federal agencies will serve in the first round of beta tests of Sprint's new Project FastBreak, officials at the company said they believe the government eventually will take advantage of the plan to offer customers unlimited bandwidth for simultaneous voice, data and video transmissions.
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Editorial: Outsourcing wars stifle change
The Defense Department can't seem to win when it comes to modernization. Just when the Pentagon is poised to revamp its logistics operations, the program falls victim to alltoofamiliar congressional turf wars.
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Computer City starts D.C. push
Identifying the federal government as one of the prime business opportunities, Computer City Inc. has reopened four stores in the Washington, D.C., area with a plan that emphasizes services and training over the warehouse philosophy that failed in its first attempt at doing business in the region.
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Law Enforcement Dons Wearable Computer System
Law Enforcement Dons Wearable Computer System
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House adds $1.6 billion to DOD Y2K funding
The House Appropriations Committee pumped an extra $1.6 billion in emergency funding into the Defense Department's efforts to fix the Year 2000 problem in its thousands of computer systems and to enhance computer security.
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U.S. in never-ending war in cyberspace
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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Confusion surrounds timeliness of filing for disability retirement
Final regulations issued by the Office of Personnel Management to establish uniformity in the application procedures for disability retirement under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) may create confusion as to whether applicants have filed for benefits within the prescribed amount of time.
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Michael Yoemans champions BPR activities at Pentagon
With the Defense Department undergoing major changes at its highest levels, Michael Yoemans, one of the Pentagon's lead advocates for business processing reengineering (BPR), keeps in mind that change rarely happens easily or quickly.
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Intercepts
Due to the inexorable ticking of the millennium clock, the Pentagon would prefer not to submit monthly Year 2000 progress reports to either the Office of Management and Budget or Capitol Hill, Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last week.
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A new class of notebooks: Semi-rugged and streetwise
While the military greatly pioneered uses for small, durable computers that could be deployed in inhospitable conditions, some of the technologies used in those ruggedized battlefield computers are finding their way into notebooks for more traditional mobile users.
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Citizen-centered services are key to government reform
The public thinks the federal government needs to perform more like the private sector
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Spectrum sale threatens key comm network
The mandated sale of federal radio frequencies has clouded the future of a key communications system in Hawaii used by federal, state and local agencies as well as the boating public.
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GSA sets its sights on Web-based employee IT training
The General Services Administration is planning a World Wide Webbased information technology training program for agency employees that may eventually be opened up to other agencies, according to Shereen Remez, GSA's chief information officer.
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Fedwire
The General Services Administration last week told vendors that it will issue a solicitation for the Financial Management Systems Software schedule on or about June 19. It said GSA will conduct an openseason procurement under which vendors of mainframe, minicomputer and PCbased financial management systems will be allowed to add their products to the schedule.
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Retired programmers lured back by Y2K work
When Thomas Copfler retired from his job as a computer specialist with the National Finance Center (NFC) in New Orleans six months ago, he planned to build a house on 10 acres of land that he had bought in Amite City, La., and to grow blueberries and day lilies.
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OMB: List outsource possibilities
An OMB official told industry representatives that he plans to ask members of the President's Management Council to develop a list of duties performed by government that might be outsourced to the private sector
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Clinton calls for more IT research funding
President Clinton said Friday that he plans to ask for significant increases'' in the federal budget for computing and communications research and that the Office of Science and Technology Policy is developing the plan.
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Senate panel berates OMB over outsourcing
Members of a Senate oversight committee today criticized the Office of Management and Budget for failing to push civilian agencies to identify commercial activities within their organizations that could potentially be outsourced to the private sector.
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