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ODIN opens to all feds
The General Services Administration and NASA will sign an agreement this week opening the Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN) contract to all government agencies and increasing its value up to $5 billion from almost $1 billion. Originally ODIN was intended to outsource hardware software
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PC industry turns attention to management concerns
LAS VEGAS At the Comdex trade show late last month hardware and software vendors unveiled a wide range of new or unannounced products that recognize an industrywide concern of making the enterprise computing environment more powerful and manageable. The products on display covered everything from
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Pentium Upgrades: When Do They Make Sense?
Your agency probably has many older Pentium PCs bought two or three years ago when they were the fastest systems around. Now however these PCs are finding it difficult to handle today's complex Webbased and multimedia applications.
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NARA creates panel to rewrite records rule
While the National Archives and Records Administration has convened a panel to develop guidelines for managing electronic federal records federal agencies are left to decide for themselves how to handle electronic mail and documents in the interim. NARA's decision to convene the Electronic Records
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Security team in money crunch
Faced with a dwindling budget officials with the only governmentwide computer emergency response team (CERT) for civilian agencies are considering floating a proposal to levy a tax on agencies to fund security services for information technology systems. As the Federal Computer Incident Response Ca
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EDS veteran returns to company's federal business
Valerie Lyons is proof that you can come home again sort of. In late 1995 against the backdrop of the snowiest winter in recent history and the partial closure of the federal government Lyons left her job as vice president of sales and marketing for Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s Government Serv
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Naval hospital launches network computer pilot project
In one of the federal government's first known experiments with network computers the Naval Medical Center in San Diego recently began to install 50 of the socalled NCs to test if the strippeddown computers can be used throughout the hospital. The medical center plans to install the NCs in the ob
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Technology, Reviews and Business
During investigations police officers are likely to share information only sporadically with other jurisdictions.
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Intergovernmental Service Protocols
Despite its harm to individual computer systems the Year 2000 date change crisis could reveal some even uglier side effects
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Minnesota Data Warehouse Furnishes Data on Demand
Imagine being in an industry in which you are a provider of services to 900 000 separate accounts.
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DOD unveils flexible messaging architecture
The Pentagon has adopted a new "flexible" architecture for its Defense Message System that strongly embraces commercial software offers users simplicity of use and promises to save millions of dollars on the halfbilliondollar project. The original DMS design and requirements which included a ma
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DOD awards high-speed broadcast service pact
HONOLULU U.S. forces operating in the Pacific will have the first opportunity to tap into a military version of the DirecTV satellite service, and top commanders here have ambitious plans for the system, including everything from sending digital maps to troops in the field to beaming military ins
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SSA pushes to get PEBES service back online this month
The Social Security Administration still hopes it can meet its yearend target to bring back online its controversial Personal Earnings and Benefit Statement (PEBES) service but agency officials want to make sure the system is secure before going back online. SSA promised in September to put PEBES
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Army stiffs staff over asbestos threat
If you fear that the building in which you work is contaminated by airborne asbestos, you may be entitled to environmental differential pay. But some Army employees recently discovered that collecting EDP can be difficult. In 1964, the walls and doors of a building at an Army facility in Texas were
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Agencies need guidance on BPAs
Beware of agencies bearing onesizefitsall blanket purchase agreements. At least that's what some folks seem to be implying after a bumper crop of BPAs were awarded across government covering a wide range of information technology products and services. It seems like only yesterday that the Defen
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Awards
IDB Mobile Communications Inc. A $3 million award for Inmarsat satellite communications services. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Cambridge Mass. GRC International. A $2.2 million award for computer and analytical support for mobility modeling. Joint Staff Logistics Directorate Washing
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ROSTER
The Association for Information Resources Management last month announced its 19971998 Leadership Awards. A team of three employees from the Agriculture Department's Rural Housing Service were cited for their work on the agency's Dedicated Loan Origination/Servicing System (DLOS). Team members inc
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FAA awards $1B support services pact
The Federal Aviation Administration last month awarded to Lockheed Martin Corp. the National Airspace System Implementation Support ContractII one of the largest services contracts ever awarded by the agency. Under NISCII which is potentially worth more than $1 billion Lockheed Martin will provid
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