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Legal appeals call for attention to details
What does it take to prove that you didn't retire voluntarily? That question recently came before the courts in a case involving Jack Daniel, an employee of the Tennessee Valley Authority, who claimed the agency coerced his retirement. Daniel said two agency actions led to his involuntary retiremen
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Team lays out plans for virtual med system
Officials from the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs as well as the Indian Health Service last month laid out their plans for a multibilliondollar federal computerbased patientrecord system that could pave the way toward a national standard for virtual medical records.
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New Intel chip leads to new models, falling prices
Over the last two weeks, industry vendors have introduced a slew of new computers incorporating Intel Corp.'s 333 MHz Pentium II the company's fastest chip yet and have begun lowering prices on models with slower processors that only a few months ago were the latest thing. The faster processors
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Senate Bill Would Guarantee Next Generation Internet Funding For Two Years
Senate Bill Would Guarantee Next Generation Internet Funding For Two Years
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Set-Asides
GAO upholds protest The General Accounting Office last month overturned a Health Care Financing Administration computer contract that was awarded last fall. Comark Federal Systems Inc. in September protested a blanket purchase agreement award to Sytel Inc. to provide HCFA with 1,960 workstations. C
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A reformed federal printing law soon? Don't hold your breath
The window of opportunity for reforming federal printing laws shrinks every day and may vanish entirely in a few months. If we don't get a law passed in the current Congress to revise Title 44 and the roles of the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) and the Government Printing Office, we probably won
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Dunn Computer acquires IDP in $23M cash/stock deal
In a move intended to strengthen its manufacturing operations, Dunn Computer Corp. has signed a letter of intent to purchase former 8(a) contractor International Data Products Corp. for cash and stock totaling $23 million. IDP, with its PC manufacturing facility in Puerto Rico, will keep its name a
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Four vendors win DOE research pacts
Under $50 million in contracts awarded earlier this month by the Energy Department, four vendors will spend the next four years developing the technology to build supercomputers that are 100 times more powerful than any that exist today. As part of the DOE program, Digital Equipment Corp., IBM Corp
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Fedwire
Charge card contracts worth billions The General Services Administration last week awarded six contracts to companies that will supply the next generation of federal government charge cards. Citibank, First National Bank of Chicago, Mellon Bank, NationsBank, American Express and US Bank will compet
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Roster
The White House this month nominated Air Force chief information officer Art Money to serve as the assistant secretary of Defense for command, control, communications and intelligence (ASD/C3I). If approved by Congress, Money would fill a position left vacant since Emmett Paige Jr. retired last yea
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White House Turns Attention to Local Government Y2K Crisis; Forms Federal Council
White House Turns Attention to Local Government Y2K Crisis; Forms Federal Council
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Letters to the Editor
Get involved Aside from the (no news!) disparity between starting salaries for [industry] computer engineers and starting salaries for GS5/7 computer specialists, your article 'Critics: Clinton training plan falls short' [FCW, Jan. 19] makes some good points. * Federal money alone won't resolve th
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Agenda
FEBRUARY 34 Internet Executive Summit. The McLean Hilton at Tysons Corner, Va. Call (202) 973 8693; Web, www.internetsummits.com/. 4 Year 2000 Seminar. Omni Shoreham Hotel. Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Coalition for Government Procurement. Call (202) 2340700; Web, www.usassociations.com/cgp/
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Army Reserve outsources CIO function to Unisys
In what may be a first in government, the Army Reserve last month outsourced its chief information officer function to private industry, hiring a Unisys Corp. executive to act as its interim CIO. Dennis Kelly, formerly Information Technology Omnibus Procurement (ITOP) deputy program manager at Unis
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FAA launches $2.75 billion telecom system
The Federal Aviation Administration is set to launch an estimated $2.75 billion program that will revamp the agency's telecommunications infrastructure and prepare it for the next century. The FAA Integrated Communications Systems for the 21st century (FICS21) program, which was detailed last week
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DOD to upgrade comm
STUTTGART, Germany The U.S. European Command (Eucom), headquartered here, has devised an innovative plan to quickly upgrade rather than replace its key backbone network in Europe in a partnership involving the Army, the Air Force, the Navy and the Defense Information Systems Agency. Air Force Bri
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Whistle-blowers: be careful what you ask for
Even whistleblowers who have proved they have been the victims of discrimination do not always get all the compensation they want from the government.
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OSD leaders Valletta, Rand jump on buyout bandwagon
Even as the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) faces a major reorganization, Anthony M. Valletta and at least five other senior members of the Defense Department's command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) staff plan to leave the Pentagon after applying for early buyouts last month.
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