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PC vendors jump on new Intel technology
The debut of Intel Corp.'s Celeron and two new Pentium II processors has spawned another round of product announcements by major PC vendors, with new desktop PCs, workstations and servers slated to begin shipping to federal customers by the end of the month. Intel's strategy with the much anticipat
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Brio gets rich return in fed market
Just one year after Brio Technology began targeting the federal government market with its data warehousing tools, the vendor has garnered about 50,000 federal users covering more than 100 sites. Among the Palo Alto, Calif.based company's customers are the departments of Agriculture and the Interi
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GSA awards 3 recovery-services pacts
The General Services Administration late last week awarded contracts to Comdisco Continuity Services, SunGuard Recovery Services Inc. and IBM Business Recovery Services for governmentwide disasterrecovery services to support mainframe, midrange and desktop systems. The three vendors will provide '
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NASA delays satellite launch after finding bugs in software program
NASA has discovered a software performance problem that has delayed for at least eight months the launch of a satellite that is central to an agency program for collecting and analyzing the interdependence of Earth's ecosystems. The satellite and the Flight Operations Segment (FOS) software running
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DOD cautions services to wait on ATM buys
Concerned about incompatible equipment, the Defense Department this month asked the armed services and DOD agencies temporarily to stop buying a highspeed network technology critical to future warfighting strategy pending release of departmentwide standards. This action could slow work on $5 billi
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Hill looks at agencies' audits
Just two weeks after a scathing, firstofitskind audit of the government's consolidated financial statement revealed billions of dollars in discrepancies, the House last week began a series of hearings to delve into agencies' information mismanagement. The House Government Management, Information
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Roster
Franklin Raines announced last week he will resign May 20 as director of the Office of Management and Budget to become chairman designate of Fannie Mae. President Clinton said he intends to nominate OMB Deputy Director Jack Lew to replace Raines. KerriAnn Jones has been named acting director of th
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Round Two
A source in a story in the April 6 issue incorrectly told FCW that Cisco Systems Inc. does not yet sell Gigabit Ethernet products. The company is shipping and taking orders for the products.
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GAO's Willemssen monitors Y2K pulse
Depending on how your agency's technology programs are faring, Joel Willemssen could be either the most or the least welcome visitor to your office. As the General Accounting Office's director of civil agencies' information systems, Willemssen leads investigations that determine whether an agency's
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Industry Watch
Boeing adds vendor to NASA contract bid team Boeing Co. announced last week that DaimlerBenz Aerospace (DASA) has signed an agreement to provide technical support to Boeing's pursuit of NASA's $5 billion Consolidated Space Operations Contract. Rick Stephens, the Boeing Reusable Space Systems vice
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Safer Skies takes flight through IT
The Federal Aviation Administration's safety initiative announced last week aims to reduce the number of fatal aviation accidents fivefold in the next 10 years by relying heavily on new technology. Under the socalled Safer Skies initiative, the FAA will take steps to prevent engine failures and so
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Vice President Hails Private-Sector Internet2 Donations
Vice President Hails Private Sector Internet2 Donations
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Intercepts
* Defense duo does the valley. My remote unit reported that John Hamre, deputy secretary of Defense, and Art Money, the designee for the assistant secretary of Defense Info Ops job, spent last week having highlevel powwows in Silicon Valley, including visits to executives at HP and a session with
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DOD taps 7 vendors for integration effort
The Defense Department last week awarded contracts to seven vendors for a $2.5 billion program to build the nextgeneration military medical information system. The program the Defense Medical Information System/Systems Integration, Design, Development, Operations and Maintenance Services (D/SIDD
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Retirement option would need IT
A CONGRESSIONAL PROPOSAL TO RESCUE THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM BY PERMITTING WORKERS TO INVEST PART OF THEIR PAYROLL TAXES IN PRIVATE RETIREMENT PLANS MAY SAVE THE BENEFITS PROGRAM, BUT IT WOULD REQUIRE THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION TO INVEST HEAVILY IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS TO TRACK
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App development tools ease move to the Web
While client/server computing has dramatically improved the productivity of application development in most organizations, the Internet is providing the wideopen network needed to deploy those applications to a wider audience.
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New Intel BX chipsets scream on benchmarks
Intel Corp. last week unveiled the longawaited 440BX chipset and the fastest Pentium II processors to date. The new processors run at speeds of 350 MHz and 400 MHz and take advantage of the new chipset's support for a 100 MHz internal system bus, which significantly boosts overall performance. The
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Sun wins $500M USPS deal
The U.S. Postal Service recently awarded its largest single contract ever for Unix equipment to Sun Microsystems Inc. in a deal that could be worth as much as $500 million. Under the nineyear Scaleable Midrange Computer contract, Sun will provide its full range of Unix servers and associated softw
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Watchdog group slams agencies' lack of EFOIA compliance
OMB Watch, an organization that monitors government regulation, said today that federal agencies have been overwhelmingly inadequate'' in complying with laws that require them to provide the public with access to electronic information.
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