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NIH launches purchasing software that is more than a catalog
The National Institutes of Health plans to unveil new electronic purchasing software today that will allow customers to order products and services from its governmentwide indefinitedelivery, indefinitequantity contracts using a World Wide Web browser. The software, called Procurement Vehicle Man
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Members of the President's Councilon Year 2000 Conversion
Members of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion
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State Department awards $68 million contractfor passport printers
In an effort to cut down on the number of fraudulent U.S. passports, the State Department last week awarded a $63 million contract to Thermo Digital Technologies to provide hightech printers to process passports.
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CFO defends DOD accounting systems
The deputy chief financial officer of the Defense Department told members of a House subcommittee today that his agency has firm control of its equipment including its information technology systems despite reports citing widespread information mismanagement at DOD.
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DOD awards seven contracts for $2.5 billion to build health network
The Defense Department today awarded contracts to seven vendors as part of a $2.5 billion program that should help make military patient records accessible electronically from anywhere in the world.
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IRS' tab for Year 2000 fix to total nearly $1 billion
On the last day of the tax filing season, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service said the agency will spend nearly a billion dollars to fix its computers for the millennium bug.
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Navy christens new Network Operations Center
The Navy stands a good chance of obtaining the budget it needs to complete an enormous shiptoshore automation project about five years ahead of schedule.
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State to announce electronic buying pilot
The State Department plans to announce next month a limited electronic contracting initiative with the Army Communications and Electronics Command at Fort Monmouth, N.J., as part of its plan to automate the purchase of goods and services for U.S. embassies and posts around the world.
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Navy's IT-21 project could get accelerated funding
The Navy stands a good chance of obtaining the budget it needs to complete an enormous shiptoshore automation project about five years ahead of schedule.
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DOD awards $50 million to industry, universities for Next Generation Internet
The Defense Department today announced it would spend $50 million over the next three years to fund privatesector research into technology that will support the government's Next Generation Internet initiative.
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IT central to FAA safety program
The Federal Aviation Administration unveiled a safety initiative today that it hopes will reduce the number of fatal aviation accidents fivefold by relying heavily on new technology.
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Nonprofit group says NSA report shows weaknesses of key recovery
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is expected to issue its response tomorrow to a National Security Agency (NSA) report that documents the potential risks posed by the encryption technology that has been at the center of a raging debate between the Clinton administration and industry.
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Raines leaving as OMB director
Franklin Raines announced today that he will step down from his post as director of the Office of Management and Budget. President Clinton, in a statement given today at the White House, said he intended to nominate OMB Deputy Director Jack Lew as the new OMB director.
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Giving Up on the Silver Bullet
My generation must have watched too many 'Lone Ranger' episodes in our youth. I know I watched every week.
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Funding and spectrum conflicts threaten GPS civilian expansion
The departments of Defense and Transportation need to quickly resolve complex funding and spectrum issues to provide the Global Positioning System's second and third civilian signals, which Vice President Al Gore announced late last month, according to top Pentagon and DOT officials. Developed by D
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More taxpayers using electronic filing
As of April 3, the Internal Revenue Service had received 67.4 million tax returns, nearly onethird of which had been filed electronically. That is up from the same period in 1997, during which 26 percent of tax returns had been filed electronically. Taxpayers can file returns electronically using
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Spare-parts problems threaten commercial buying gains
Dramatic congressional testimony from the Defense Department's inspector general on overpayments in DOD spareparts purchasing last month made national headlines and the network news. For most of the public, this is DOD conducting 'business as usual.' Some, though, have noticed that the problem is
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Rogue transmitter knocks out GPS signals
An errant Air Force transmitter in upstate New York jammed Global Positioning System satellite navigation signals for two weeks earlier this year, with at least one Continental Airlines flight reporting a total loss of GPS signals and a dozen other GPSequipped aircraft filing interference reports,
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DOD eyes buying, personnel reforms (Part 1)
Defense Secretary William Cohen this month notified Congress of actions the Defense Department would take to modernize its acquisition procedures, including proposals to make greater use of technology tools, such as electronic commerce and distance learning. The report also said Cohen would establi
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