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Air Force, Navy apply brakes to additional BPAs
The Air Force and the Navy late last month stemmed the proliferation of blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) on General Services Administration schedules by restricting the number of new deals that service personnel can initiate. The Air Force's action Oct. 24 was the most drastic suspending the crea
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Agencies in need of electronic records management solutions
Recordswise my friends the fat is now in the fire. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman issued a summary judgment on Oct. 22 1997 agreeing that General Records Schedule 20 is arbitrary and capricious irrational and contrary to law. GRS 20 is the rule promulgated by the National Archives and Records A
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GAO praises, criticizes SSA's Year 2000 efforts
The General Accounting Office last week presented a mixed bag of warnings and compliments to the Social Security Administration's efforts to make its computers Year 2000compliant. While praising SSA for having one of the most progressive programs to identify and fix computers so that they can prop
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Pacific Fleet makes the Web a family affair
The Pacific Fleet's operations span more than half the globe stretching from the coasts of the Americas to those in Asia and on to Africa. Thanks to a crash effort started a year ago the majority of the Navy and Marine Corps units in the Pacific Fleet (PACFLT) are just a mouse click over the horizo
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Awards
Computer Sciences Corp. A $24.2 million award for engineering services to support submarine message processing systems. Spawar System Center San Diego. The Mil Corp. A $5.97 million award for hardware and software support services. Navy St. Inigoes Md. Unicomp Inc. A $450 000 award for generalpurp
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Set-Asides
Feds get low GPRA scores House Republicans last week gave all but one of the 24 largest federal agencies a failing score on plans that outline how they will manage information technology in meeting the Government Performance and Results Act. Agencies were scored in 10 categories including data capa
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Hill moves to halt border-crossing system
A bipartisan panel of nine senators and congressional representatives last week voiced their support of legislation that would freeze an effort by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to install an automated system to keep track of individuals crossing U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico. The
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Intercepts
MONTEREY Calif. * Do it now. That's the bottom line of the message that CINCPACFLT Adm. Archie Clemins delivered at the end of his speech to Milcom '97 here. Observing that 'all the technologies to do [Joint Chiefs of Staff] Vision 2010 are here today " Clemins asked 'Why are we going to wait 12 y
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New wares from Compaq
Compaq Computer Corp. aims to consolidate its lead in the federal network server market with four new servers announced today that offer highavailability features and multiple processors at a low price. The midrange servers smooth over gaps in the company's product line between powerful PCs that c
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Labor reawards black lung pact to CSC
The Labor Department last week awarded a $47 million contract to Computer Sciences Corp. to transform the systems that process medical benefits to coal miners with black lung disease. Under the fouryear Black Lung Support Services contract which CSC has held since 1987 CSC will move Labor's Black
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Letters to the Editor
Clarifying the finer points In your article 'Virus infects communications with Mir' [FCW Oct. 20] Jonathan Wheat senior antivirus laboratory analyst at the National Computer Security Association said macro viruses take their names from the macro language first created by Microsoft Corp. for inclus
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Bill to call for online agency forms
Rep. Anna Eshoo (DCalif.) is crafting legislation that would require federal agencies to create online versions of all their forms and put into place mechanisms that would allow citizens to submit these forms and associated payments such as income tax payments via digital signature technology.
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DOD slows high-speed telecom development
MONTEREY Calif. The Defense Information Systems Agency announced last week that it has adopted a slower approach to its development of advanced highspeed switching technology on communication networks that will serve all Defense Department users. DISA director Lt. Gen. David Kelley speaking here
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SGI opens new Reality Center
Silicon Graphics Inc. last week officially opened a new Reality Center in Orlando Fla. The new facility dedicated to virtual reality and simulation demonstrations and development is the first such domestic center outside the company's Mountain View Calif. headquarters. Its location is strategically
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Lotus beckons network computer users to eSuite
Lotus Development Corp. has launched new software that should make network computers a more appealing choice for federal government users. Called eSuite the product family consists of Javabased business applications that will work on any client including a PC but their greatest initial appeal shou
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FEMA Disaster-Prediction Software Expands
FEMA Disaster Prediction Software Expands
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FAA launches comm upgrade
The Federal Aviation Administration is considering a program potentially worth billions of dollars to upgrade its entire air and ground system infrastructure to support data and voice communications. The FAA last month released a request for information (RFI) for the development of its NextGenerat
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NSA cancels telecom award to Cisco Systems
The National Security Agency has canceled the award of a controversial contract to buy thousands of highspeed network switches from Cisco Systems Inc. The agency which rarely comments on any topic publicly did not announce the cancellation of the socalled Light Core contract designed to supply NS
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Five vendors lodge agency-level protests against ECS II
The National Institutes of Health expects to rule soon on five agencylevel protests from unsuccessful bidders on the $2 billion Electronic Computer Store II procurement. The vendors Severn Companies Inc. Sytel Inc. SMAC Data Systems Friendship Computer and Native American Sales would not comment o
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