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Deca dumps commissary upgrade plan
A plan to modernize the Defense Commissary Information System (DCIS) suffered a fatal blow last month when the Defense Commissary Agency (Deca) canceled the program in the face of rising Year 2000 costs and an inability to accommodate commercial best practices and systems. The contract, awarded to
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Medieval history takes Lipkin on high-tech career path
There are not many paths leading medieval history graduates to jobs at technology companies along the Beltway. But Joel Lipkin found one. While earning his doctorate in medieval history at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., Lipkin, now vice president of business development at Government Techno
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Computer Sciences garners $131 million contract option
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has exercised an option to continue an existing contract with Computer Sciences Corp. for the provision of information services to Marshall and to NASA agencywide. The option, valued at $131 million, covers the period of May 1, 1998, through April 30, 1999. It co
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In Milwaukee Partnership, Parents and Kids Learn Together
Underpriviledged families in innercity Milwaukee are learning computer, reading and writing skills at public technology centers.
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GAO targets Army's Year 2000 effort
The Army's Year 2000 program could fail because of management problems, an incomplete test plan and other reasons, according to a General Accounting Office report released last wee
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New Pentium II PCs crank on benchmarks
TESTING BY Andreas Uiterwijk Not even a year ago, government power users were eyeing Intel Corp.'s justreleased 266 MHz Pentium II processor. Now, they have Intel's newest processor and chipset the 400 MHz Pentium II processor and the 440BX chipset to consider. To find out how much faster the
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Virginia's IT Game Plan
Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore unveiled his technology master plan last month, naming computer industry executive and government policymaker Don Upson as the state's first secretary of technology and forming an information technology commission to advise the state.
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Draft report outlines PKI policy
To improve the public's access to government services and information and to tighten the security of unclassified government information systems, the federal government must work in partnership with the private sector to design and build a publickey infrastructure (PKI), according to a report bein
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Justice, Microsoft duke it out in cyberspace
Anyone with access to the World Wide Web can download the U.S. government's documents in its antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. But anyone who decides to download the U.S. v. Microsoft case documents from the Justice Department Web site (www.usdoj.gov) will need a very large disk drive and an a
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Senate wants industry to pay costs of moving spectrum
In an action that could dampen commercial interest in future spectrum auctions, the Senate fiscal 1999 Defense authorization bill proposed that privatesector organizations reimburse federal agencies for expenses up to $5 billion associated with reallocating radio spectrum frequencies. The Federal
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Reversing a 'Brain Drain' in Green County, Pa.
Green County, Pa., located in the Rust Belt and saddled with a poverty factor of more than 25 percent, has spent decades trying to recover from a mass exodus of workers that has left the area's work force depleted.
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NPR effort to take flight after USPS folds WINGS
The U.S. Postal Service's decision last month to shut down its Internet site that offered the public integrated government services underscores the challenges associated with governmentwide electronic service delivery. The Web Interactive Network of Government Services (WINGS), which USPS launched
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FAA delays STARS rollout
The Federal Aviation Administration late last month said it will delay rollout of its critical $1 billion air traffic control modernization program by at least nine months to fix potentially hazardous design flaws identified by air traffic controllers and technicians.
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GeoResearch signs R&D deal with Census for mapping tech
Mapping vendor GeoResearch Inc. has signed a research and development agreement to help the Census Bureau achieve greater accuracy in its population count, the company announced late last month. Population information serves as the foundation for creating and redrawing congressional districts, and
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Michigan Communities Launch Largest Regional GIS
Defying both inertia and politics, 21 towns and counties in western Michigan have decided to band together to share the expensesand potential benefitsof developing what could become the largest regional geographic information system in the country.
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Committee plans to publicize geographic privacy policy
Members of the Federal Geographic Data Committee this month will begin a push to make federal computer users aware of a new policy designed to protect private information that may be stored in geographic information databases. Nationwide, hundreds of agencies from the Environmental Protection Age
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RMS joins forces with Intellisource
Intellisource Inc. and RMS Information Services Inc. announced last week that they will merge their operations into a new services integrator concern under the name The Intellisource Group. The addition of Intellisource, a Fairfield, Conn.based company that provides integrated solutions for nonco
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Designing the Virtual Statehouse
Have you ever wondered why state capitols have domes? Or why some bank entrances are flanked by tall columns? Over time, architects have crafted elaborate codes for designing city structures and spaces.
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Commercial PCs take to the field
Once upon a time, when MilSpec ruled, buying a computer was relatively easy. Vendors wrote down exactly what they believed the soldier, sailor, airman or Marine needed, presented those requirements to a contractor, and after some time for testing and refinement, the computer was ready for the fiel
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