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Upson likely choice for Va. Cabinet
Virginia Gov. James Gilmore is reportedly close to announcing his choice of a candidate to fill a revamped Cabinetlevel position on technology.
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Hamre foresees joint task force for info ops at DOD
The Pentagon has plans under way to set up a joint task force to handle strategic and tactical information operations, both offensive and defensive, according to Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre.
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Lack of Y2K progress threatens Labor benefits programs
The Labor Department's benefits programs are at risk because resource problems may hinder the department's efforts to fix computers for the Year 2000 problem, the inspector general said today.
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BDM's Stottlemyer joins BTG
Todd A. Stottlemyer has joined systems integrator BTG Inc. as senior vice president and director of corporate development, the company announced today.
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Agencies expand use of groupware
Although groupware technology has been around for several years, federal agencies have dramatically expanded their deployment of sophisticated groupware applications, with a growing emphasis on using the World Wide Web. Groupware is collaborative computing that encompasses everything from calendari
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SGI unveils Intel-centric technology road map
Silicon Graphics Inc., best known for its highend and highcost Unix servers and workstations, will revamp its product line to develop more affordable systems based on the Microsoft Corp. Windows NT operating system and Intel Corp. processors, the company announced last week. SGI will port its Uni
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DOE tests tool to speed priority Internet traffic
After more than a decade of research, the Energy Department this month successfully tested a technology that could allow Internet users especially federal researchers to speed delivery of highpriority traffic by bypassing the massive congestion endemic to the public network. During the test, r
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Bad software represents "self-inflicted information warfare"
The Defense Department needs to bring new order and discipline to software acquisition, development and maintenance or face serious consequences in future wars, according to D. Patricia Sanders, DOD's director of test, systems engineering and evaluation.
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NIMA requests detailed satellite map imagery
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency last month issued a call to industry for proposals on how to integrate commercial systems for processing highresolution imagery with the agency's existing systems. NIMA's request comes amid a changing mission focus for the Defense Department, which is respon
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DOD Software Technology Conference kicks off with network-centric program
The tenth annual Defense Department Software Technology Conference (STC) opens here today for a fourday run at the Salt Palace Convention Center, with 3,300 attendees already preregistered and roughly 240 information technology vendors scheduled to exhibit.
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Shortchanging security is risky
When the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection first met in late 1996 to figure out how to protect from terrorists the computers that operate the nation's electrical, transportation, financial and telecommunications systems, the idea of such a cyberattack seemed remote. No lo
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Set-Asides
IRS open to cyberattacks The General Accounting Office last week released a report that urges the Internal Revenue Service to 'assure [that] its computer systems are properly designed and protected.' In a fiscal 1997 audit of the IRS, GAO found that controls of the agency's automated systems have '
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Fedwire
White House Y2K council meets The President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, meeting for the first time last week, formed groups to encourage agencies to work with companies that do business with the federal government and to address personnel issues that affect Year 2000 fixes. The council form
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Air Force calls for Unix-to-NT port
In yet another sign of the growing predominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT, the Air Force last week tapped a fourvendor team to pilot an initiative to move command and control applications from Unix to Windows NT. Under the cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) signed last we
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Praise politics unlikely to please federal workers
Proponents of a larger pay raise next year for federal workers are concerned (and they should be) that although they are aiming high, they may they be shooting at some of their own. Their dilemma is that Congress may vote for an increase in federal employee pay and then finance that effort by direc
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Education's Web site sets teachers FREE
Searching for information on the World Wide Web is similar to visiting a flea market: It is mildly interesting at first, but then it becomes frustrating as piles of useless junk overwhelm any desire to continue searching for anything of real value.
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Feds won't pay as AT&T probes outage
Federal agencies that lost frame relay service during AT&T's network outage last week will not pay for the service until the company isolates the problem and ensures it will not recur, a spokeswoman from AT&T Government Markets said. The spokeswoman confirmed that all the agencies that use AT&T's f
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Boole offers MQSeries management
Systems management specialist Boole & Babbage Inc. has developed a tool for managing IBM Corp.'s popular MQSeries messaging middleware, and the company plans to offer customers a 90day free trial of the tool beginning in June. Boole & Babbage, the maker of Command Post management software, designe
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DOD runs largest-ever battlefield simulation
Defense and National Science Foundationfunded computer scientists recently completed the largestever battlefield simulation, in which more than 100,000 tanks, helicopters, missiles and other vehicles engaged in a computergenerated battle set in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. Researchers said th
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