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Pitfalls of Public Safety Integration
Public safety may be the highest civic priority within local government, but the technology used to support such services often lags behind the times. While getting the job done, many 911, computeraided dispatch (CAD) and radio systems are outdated and splintered among police, fire and other city
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SEI tapped for Bureau of Indian Affairs financial system
Interior Department officials last week announced they had chosen SEI Investments to replace a beleaguered inhouse system that the agency has used for decades to manage billions of trust dollars for American Indians. The department maintains almost 350,000 trust accounts for American Indians and I
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Porting tools ease migration to Windows NT
Although far from a cureall, application porting tools have emerged as a salve for some of the pains that agencies develop when managing mixed Unix and Windows NT environments. Porting tools help users either integrate offtheshelf Windows NT software with Unix platforms or migrate Unix applicati
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Round Two
In the March 30 FCW supplement 'Mission Accomplished,' Boeing Information Services is identified as a manufacturer of Global Positioning System satellites. This is incorrect; Boeing North American Inc. is the manufacturer. In the same supplement, FCW identified the current satellite communications
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Editorial: OPM innovation promises dividends
The Office of Personnel Management, a new player in the unfolding millennium drama, has given a muchneeded boost to the government's Year 2000 fix by crafting an innovative policy to help agencies attract and retain computer programmers.
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E-Rate
Call it Ma Bell's final bequest. In a twist on the telephone industry's historic obligation to provide 'universal (telephone) service' to even the most out-of-the-way Americans
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DOD adopts COTS wares to protect supercomputers
The Defense Department's highperformance computing program office is finalizing plans for a security policy using commercial hardware and software security products to control access of more than 4,000 users of supercomputers nationwide. The DOD HighPerformance Computing Modernization Program (HP
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Applicants sought for IT scholarships
The Federation of Government Information Processing Councils has begun its annual search for scholarship candidates to support continued education in the field of information technology. As in previous years, FGIPC will award $1,000 scholarships in three categories: public service employees working
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Comm expert brings IT to 'hot spots'
RAMSTEIN AIR FORCE BASE, Germany As the deployment planner for the Air Force's 1st Combat Communications Squadron, Tech. Sgt. Sarah brings substantial personal experience to the job. Finamore, whose own deployment schedule reads like a tour of the world's hot spots, said she loves to travel, and
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GSA promises faster payment if vendors go electronic
To encourage more vendors to use electronic commerce, the General Services Administration last month said that for some contracts, the agency will pay vendors 20 days sooner if they agree to process orders and invoices electronically. Under the interim rule published in the Federal Register, GSA wi
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Agenda
April 1314 NCMA Contracting Technology 2000 Business Fair. Ramada Inn. Williamsburg, Va. For information, call Charlene Cowman, (804) 9157281. 1317 IPIC '98: Pathways to Info 2000. Fairmont Hotel. New Orleans. For information, call (504) 5297111; Web, www.gitec.org/ipic/meet98/index.htm. 14 Air
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GSA awards $222M support services pact
The General Services Administration last month awarded a $222 million contract to STG Inc. of Fairfax, Va., for information technology and communications support services. The services will be available mainly to agencies operating within GSA's midAtlantic region, which covers Delaware, Maryland,
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Arming Beat Cops With GIS Weapons
The use of geographic information systems (GIS) and smart maps to combat crime traditionally has been a luxury that only big city police units could afford. But now the Justice Department wants to give average beat cops in smaller, less technically savvy departments access to the same technology we
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Internet High School
San Francisco's Thurgood Marshall Academic High School is situated in one of the city's toughest neighborhoods.
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Federal Bytes
I'm CEO, and you're not William Owens, a retired admiral and former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a man of his word. When he joined Science Applications International Corp. in March 1996, he said his goal was to rise to the level of chief executive officer within two years. He didn
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Rehiring buyout recipients doesn't make sense
Does it make sense to pay people incentives to leave their jobs, only to hire them back a few years later? According to a recent General Accounting Office review ('Federal Downsizing: Controls Needed to Ensure Compliance With Buyout Repayment Provisions,' GAO/GGD9812, January 1998), the federal g
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Industry watch
DOT agency buys WordPerfect Suite licenses Corel Corp. has signed a deal with the Transportation Department's Federal Highway Administration to provide 3,500 licenses of WordPerfect Suite 8, which includes the WordPerfect 8 word processor, Quattro Pro 8 spreadsheet, Presentations 8 and the Central
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DOD readies contingency plan for aging Autodin
The Senate late last week established a special committee to address the Year 2000 problem.
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Judge orders NARA to stop destruction of electronic docs
A federal judge yesterday ordered the National Archives and Records Administration to require agencies to preserve or dispose of electronic records according to a temporary policy issued last month.
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