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INS scores points for innovative contracting techniques
During the next few years the success of efforts in information technology procurement reform and of achieving better returns on the government's IT investments will depend mostly on the actions of hundreds of career people in IT and contracting shops throughout federal agencies. Much of the statut
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Microsoft announces Windows terminal plan
LAS VEGAS At Comdex last month Microsoft Corp. launched the beta version of a Windowsbased terminal server designed to address the total cost of ownership issue by giving multiple thin clients the ability to simultaneously access Windows applications from a Windows NT server. The multiuser opera
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PeopleSoft enhances federal HRMS package
PeopleSoft Inc. last month introduced a new version of its federal human resources management software (HRMS) suite that supports additional management functions and provides new features for accessing and managing data. PeopleSoft 7 HRMS for federal government users a version of its basic HRMS s
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Davis to revive bill to open sked to states and localities
Rep. Tom Davis (RVa.) plans to reintroduce next month a bill that would allow state and local governments to purchase information technology products and services from the General Services Administration's schedule of contracts. Davis fought this year to include language in the Federal Acquisitio
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Industry Watch
Vendors secure Air Force purchases Two security vendors have received large orders from the Air Force to supply products to bases worldwide as part of a program to create a highly secure network infrastructure. The Air Force has tapped St. Paul Minn.based Secure Computing Corp. to provide 41 of it
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Intercepts
Spawar ahoy. My Crystal City Va. antenna site has picked up solid signals that Rear Adm. John Gauss will depart the N6 shop in March to replace Rear Adm. George Wagner as commander of Spawar the key Navy command charged with the nutsandbolts work on IT21. This job sounds as exciting as serving a
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DOJ plans to share data agencywide
Justice Department leaders last month said they plan to pursue a massive information technology project that will allow employees across DOJ bureaus to more easily share data including everything from email and payroll information to data on highprofile crimes. The project called the Information
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Building Year 2000 Interfaces
You've educated your managers, drawn up your methodology.
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USPS tests smart cards
The U.S. Postal Service is participating in its first test to help evaluate whether the agency in the future should accept smart cards from customers to pay for services offered by post offices nationwide. During the pilot expected to last until April customers patronizing four post offices in New
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Network users wrestle with ATM option
Unlike most technologies Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networking has been one that the federal government adopted earlier than most commercial users. Today one can scarcely point to any federal agency that has not at least experimented with the technology. For years ATM vendors have trumpeted t
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Industry urges feds to set milestones
SAN JOSE Calif. he federal government has computing requirements that the information technology industry cannot satisfy and agencies need to set clear milestones for investing in research to meet these demands some of the nation's top computer scientists said at a trade show here last month. At
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Agreement targets IT-21 buy-in
HONOLULU Top Navy officials have agreed to focus funding from disparate information technology programs as well as research and development dollars on the Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT21) project, one of the key management tasks necessary for the Navy to accomplish the ambitiou
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Federal Program Designed to 'Nudge' GIS Development
Perhaps nowhere in the United States is there more of a need for consistent land mapping than in Alaska which is twice the size of Texas and is inhabited by an average of one person per square mile.
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TRW, BDM seek fed biz after merger
TRW Inc. late last month announced it would acquire BDM International Inc. for about $1 billion an acquisition that both companies described as necessary if they are to succeed in the federal information technology services market. Each systems integrator does a large amount of business in the fede
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California to Choose Between Four for CALNET Award
California to Choose Between Four for CALNET Award
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GSA unveils Year 2000 database
In an effort to provide assistance to federal information technology personnel boggled by the number of commercial software offerings now touted as Year 2000compliant the General Services Administration this week will unveil its Year 2000 COTS Product Database. The database which officially opens
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DOD site helps target federal EC information
As with many topics these days pinpointing specific and helpful information about electronic commerce in the government can be similar to finding a needle in a haystack. But the Defense Department has created the comprehensive Federal Electronic Commerce Navigator which should help users locate the
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Set-Asides
Bennett: Create Y2K office Sen. Bob Bennett (RUtah) chairman of the Senate Banking Committee's Financial Services and Technology Subcommittee last month wrote a letter to President Clinton asking him to create an office within the White House to focus agencies' efforts on the Year 2000 computer pr
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