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Roster
Marie Monsees has been named program director of the National Institutes of Health's Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center. She is in charge of NIH's Electronic Computer Store II, Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners, and ImageWorld contracts. Thomas Dunn is the new d
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NSA report details risks of key-recovery technology
The National Security Agency has prepared a report that may be the first federal government documentation of the potential risks posed by the encryption technology that has been at the center of a raging debate between the Clinton administration and industry. The report details the potential threat
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Asymetrix ships course management software
Asymetrix Learning Systems Inc. last month began shipping a more scalable release of its computerbased training management software, which automates the distribution, lesson management and assessment of training applications. Librarian 6.0 works in conjunction with Asymetrix's ToolBook II software
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CA adds remote-control technology options
Federal users of Computer Associates International Inc.'s Unicenter TNG systems management solution now have the option for integrated remote control of their servers and desktops, the company announced late last month. The Remote Control Option allows distant technical experts to address problems
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Net Sentinel offers to file agencies' archiving woes
As federal agencies anticipate new requirements for maintaining their electronic files, a new company plans to offer, starting today, to take the problem of archiving and storing these documents off their hands. For a monthly fee, Net Sentinel Inc., Annandale, Va., will archive the contents of agen
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Letters to the Editor
Working Together I appreciate your publication's interest in the administration's effort to address the Year 2000 problem and therefore was disappointed to read your March 23 editorial, 'Legislation not Year 2000 solution,' which mischaracterized my suggestion that there may be a need for future, a
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New Federal Program to Respond to Mass-Destruction Threats
New Federal Program to Respond to Mass Destruction Threats
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McKeever fine-tunes AT&T org
ATLANTA About six months after accepting the post of president of AT&T Government Markets, Mary Jane McKeever said she has improved service to federal agencies by reducing the layers of her organization's reporting structure and by aligning the group as a whole more closely with AT&T headquarters
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Army awards three BPAs for PC wares
The Army last week awarded blanket purchase agreements potentially worth a total of $300 million to three resellers to provide peripherals, accessories and software for its installed base of desktop and laptop computers. Comark Federal Systems, Government Technology Services Inc. and Vanstar Govern
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Agencies, industry slow to embrace commercial practices
More than a decade ago, a commission headed by David Packard came up with a novel idea: The federal government should adopt commercial procurement practices. But the Packard Commission's bold notion took a while to ferment. After 10 years of increasingly aggressive legislative and regulatory change
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Interagency office to respond to weapons of mass destruction
With the fear of a terrorist detonating a biological or nuclear weapon in the United States or against U.S. troops abroad becoming more plausible, the Defense Department last month announced it plans to form a special office that would oversee efforts to defend against such attacks and to assist ci
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Industry Watch
Litton completes TASC buy Litton Industries Inc. has completed its $432 million acquisition of TASC Inc. from Primark Corp. following approval of the transaction by Primark shareholders, Litton said last week. Litton announced the acquisition of the Reading, Mass.based company in December, boostin
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Taking reform efforts to school
The Central Contractor Registration database, the cornerstone of the Defense Department's plan to move to a paperless contracting process by 2000, has hit a snag. DOD contractors, presumably among the primary beneficiaries of an electronic contracting environment, are reluctant to sign up. Slow and
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IRS rightly slams misuse of information
In one of those rare instances in which I applaud an action taken by the Internal Revenue Service, the agency fired an employee for misusing its Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS) to seek taxrelated information on friends and relatives. The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and the U.S. C
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GAO: Financial information at risk
Gene Dodaro, the General Accounting Office's assistant comptroller general, told members of Congress last week that computer security could be compromised as agencies work to fix their Year 2000 problem, leaving critical financial information vulnerable to cyberattacks. Dodaro, testifying before th
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New rules address Y2K worker shortage
Seeking additional manpower to fix the millennium bug that is affecting thousands of federal computers, the Office of Personnel Management last week said it would let agencies hike the salaries of programmers working on Year 2000 projects and waive rules that limit how much retired programmers coul
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CBD Watch
Navy. Research and development support services. Sol. N6133998R0017. (CBD, April 2) The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division needs R&D support services that encompass basic research, applied research, advanced development, prototype development and technology transfer in areas such
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Hill proposes $200M more for Year 2000 fix
Congress, faced with the ticking of the Year 2000 clock, used the 1998 supplemental appropriations bill to add more than $200 million in funding to help the Federal Aviation Administration and the Treasury Department rectify computer date problems in key systems before the turn of the century. The
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USPS unveils first online postage software, more to come
The U.S. Postal Service last week demonstrated the first approved Internetbased product that allows users to print postage from their PCs. A small group of users in the Washington, D.C., area will begin to test EStamp Corp.'s EStamp Internet Postage software, which will allow the group to log on
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