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Va. Sheriff's Office Posts Electronic Neighborhood Watch
Va. Sheriff's Office Posts Electronic Neighborhood Watch
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Acquisition brings together Ashtec, Magellan
Orbital Sciences Corp. strengthened its position in the Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver industry through an agreement to acquire and merge Ashtec Inc. with Orbital's Magellan Corp. subsidiary creating a $125 million satellite receiver company. Magellan which introduced the first handheld G
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CACI nabs Navy software development contract CACI International Inc. this month was awarded a fiveyear $30 million contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in Chesapeake Va. The costplusfixedfee award calls for CACI to provide software development and life cycle support for its
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Handheld PCs fly on NASA shuttle
Astronauts took the first handheld computer into space on the NASA space shuttle Columbia mission that concluded earlier this month. They were testing an application designed to provide them with graphical representations of their location in space and potential emergency landing sites. But althoug
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Kennedy Space Center to launch access system
The Kennedy Space Center soon will become the first NASA center to install an advanced automated system to request and approve security credentials for visitors center employees and contractors. Kennedy officials plan to solicit proposals early next year for a new database and software application
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Energy taps 11 for support
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Dec. 12 awarded 11 vendors taskorder contracts to operate and maintain its mainframes and computer networks through 2002. Among the winners are incumbents Abacus Allied Technology Group Science Applications International Corp. Unisys Corp. and Z Inc. The
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Set-Asides
DOD unveils data center plan The Defense Information Systems Agency this month announced plans to consolidate its 16 mainframe dataprocessing centers into just six facilities as recommended last month in the Defense Reform Initiative unveiled by Secretary of Defense William Cohen. The consolidatio
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FAA rolls out advanced radar system
The Federal Aviation Administration late last month began using a new surveillance radar system that will increase airport capacity by allowing planes to land simultaneously on closely spaced parallel runways. The Precision Runway Monitor (PRM) system developed by AlliedSignal and now in use at the
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PRC lands $40 million PTO pact
The Patent and Trademark Office unseated incumbent contractor Science Applications International Corp. and awarded to Litton/PRC Inc. a contract valued at $40 million to provide the agency with engineering and support services. PRC won the fiveyear Systems Engineering/Technical Assistance (SETA) I
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Roster
Arnold Bresnick director of the Office of Information Resources Management at the Agriculture Department is the new chairman of the interagency Information Technology Resources Board. He replaces Mary Ellen Condon the director of the Justice Department's information management and security staff.
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Eastman refines federal sales channels strategy
Eastman Software has launched a new federal business strategy designed to expand the reach of its small federal sales force by teaming with more integrators and resellers to market their imaging workflow and document management products. In an interview at the FedNet/Fed Imaging trade show in Washi
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NASA's Lee said to be White House pick Deidre Lee NASA's associate administrator for procurement has been nominated as the new director of the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy Federal Computer Week has learned. Lee's nomination has been submitted to the White H
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Navy stays with PCs, Microsoft standards
HONOLULU The Navy plans to stay with the interim commercial standards issued in March for its massive project to link ship and shore computer systems despite heavy industry pressure for changes. The Navy still plans to build its Information Technology for the 21st Century project around Intel Cor
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EPA sets goals, schedule for IT integration plans
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to spend up to $30 million over the next five years to expand electronic reporting for the industries it regulates and to set common standards for the data it collects and shares with states according to the agency's new information technology plan released
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OMB gets tough with agencies
Pushing agencies to hasten their efforts to fix the century date processing problem in government computers the Office of Management and Budget is expected this week to require seven agencies to begin moving hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for new information technology projects to fix da
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GSA sizes up competition for local telecom services
Local telecommunications providers and longdistance carriers alike are for the first time preparing to compete for the same federal contracts and are putting together their responses to the General Services Administration's Metropolitan Area Acquisition for telephone service in dozens of major cit
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Group sues feds for nondisclosure
So even federal agencies including the Office of Management and Budget are violating laws that require them to disclose information about their major computer systems according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court. Public Citizen a consumer advocacy group has asked Judge Sta
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Bell Atlantic and Cabletron Sign Internet Pact With N.H. Schools
The New Hampshire governor's office and Education Department recently announced a $5 million pact with Bell Atlantic and Cabletron
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Protests plague DISA telecom procurements
The Defense Information Systems Agency's decision to modify existing contracts for key telecommunications programs has led to a series of vendor protests in the past month. In particular three procurements are at issue. DISA recently modified AT&T's domestic DISA Transmission Services Contract (DTS
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