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Transition to FTS 2001 network has agency users worried
ATLANTA Federal users of the governmentwide FTS 2000 longdistance network last week raised concerns about how the transition to the FTS 2001 network may adversely affect missioncritical applications and whether agencies are making adequate preparations for the switch. For example, Ron Hack, dir
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VINES grows new functions, Y2K compliance
Banyan Systems Inc. this week is announcing a new version of its VINES network operating system that provides current users with a onestep upgrade to new features and Year 2000 compliance. VINES 8.5 is the first in a series of Year 2000compliant products expected from Banyan's Year 2000 Readiness
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Cylink sells wireless division to P-Com
Cylink Corp. announced today that it will sell its wireless communications division to PCom Inc. for $60 million and focus solely on its information security division.
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OFPP's strategic plan falls short in providing needed guidance
In response to language in last year's Defense Authorization Act, the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy has released two reports about electronic commerce in the federal government. While those reports accurately reflect the state of EC in the federal marketplac
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Roster
The sharedinterest group on telecommunications of the Industry Advisory Council last week announced the formation of a new federal advisory team to work with the group on determining how agencies and industry can improve the performance of federal telecommunications contracts. The advisory team co
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NASA's CIO boosts missions
Stunning photographs and models of various spacecraft are displayed prominently in Lee Holcomb's NASA office, a tribute to the allure of the agency's missions that have kept the new chief information officer working at headquarters for more than 20 years. Holcomb, who was named NASA CIO in November
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Army launches $1 billion wholesale logistics project
The Army last week kicked off a billiondollarplus project to modernize and eventually privatize key elements of its wholesale logistics system, which supplies troops with everything from helmets to helicopters. The Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program (WLMP), which includes a $9 billion inve
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Census accuracy counts on automated offices
The Census Bureau plans to release March 30 a solicitation for hardware, software and integration services that will automate about 520 temporary remote offices set up to support the 2000 census. Under the estimated $100 million Automation Infrastructure for the Local Census Offices program, the Ce
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CA backs off CSC takeover bid
After several weeks of escalating hostilities between the two companies, Computer Associates International Inc. today announced that it would not pursue its proposed $9.8 billion acquisition of systems integrator Computer Sciences Corp.
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Rubin says Treasury needs $453 million for Y2K fix
The Treasury Department will need nearly half a billion dollars in the remaining two years of the century to meet the deadline to have its computers be Year 2000compliant, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin told House appropriators March 4.
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DOD taps DISA's Curtis as Y2K czar
The Defense Department has set up a highlevel Year 2000 oversight office and named William Curtis
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DOD bolsters its Bosnia comm setup
EAGLE BASE, TUZLA, Bosnia The fiberoptic communications cables that snake their way alongside the rough, plank walkways that serve as the sidewalks here at the headquarters of the U.S. force in the former Yugoslavia not only provide highspeed voice, data and Internet connections but also repres
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Three more government Web sites hacked
Just days after hackers broke into three Army World Wide Web sites, hackers today broke into three more government Web sites and altered the material on the Web pages.
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LOC's overhauled site tells America's story
A recent trip to the Library of Congress on the World Wide Web (www.loc.gov) to check out the new online release of some 8,000 pages of correspondence to and from George Washington turned into a serendipitous adventure that provided sheer delight at every mouse click. LOC has completely revamped it
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Bell Atlantic wins GAO contract
Bell Atlantic Federal Systems expects to begin work this week on its first nationwide contract to offer telecommunications maintenance services and equipment to a federal agency. The General Accounting Office awarded the Consolidated Field Office Maintenance contract, worth a minimum of $1.4 millio
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Costs to agencies escalate as computer misuse increases
More than half of federal agencies recently surveyed have been victims of unauthorized use of computer systems, with agencies' financial losses rising by more than 3,000 percent over last year, according to a new report being issued today.
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IBM unleashes 333 MHz Pentium II workstation
At a time when government workstation buyers are considering Windows NT systems as replacements to traditional Unix machines for 3D graphics applications, IBM Corp.'s new IntelliStation M Pro offers a flashy design, solid performance and a refreshed feature set that will surely attract attention.
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Three Army Web sites hacked
On the heels of the recent attack on unclassified Pentagon computer systems, three Army World Wide Web sites were hacked March 8.
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