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Award
STG Inc. A $3.65 million award for the management and operation of computer center facilities. Treasury Department Bureau of Engraving and Printing Office of Procurement Washington D.C. RVJ International Inc. A $3 million award for costengineering manufacturing technology and logistics support for
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Fedwire
GSA issues FTS 2001 amendment The General Services Administration late last week issued as planned an amendment to the FTS 2001 solicitation for governmentwide longdistance telecommunications services. The amendment identified nine of the 19 services in the initial solicitation as optional for ven
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Frontier software enables Win95 use on tactical nets
Frontier Technologies Corp. has developed software that will enable Army PC users to easily use Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95 products on its tactical networks. The Army has a multibilliondollar investment in tactical communications gear to support deployed units but until recently Army users could
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Congress reins in Defense job cuts
Congress pared down a proposal by the House to slash the Defense Department acquisition work force by 100 000 during the next three years to just 25 000 this fiscal year in the final version of the Defense authorization bill approved by the House and Senate last month. This summer the House version
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DOD lays groundwork for network-centric warfare
The Defense Department did not plan the current hodgepodge of networks that has grown up with the decadelong evolution of client/server computing. But DOD now has embraced at the highest levels the concept of 'networkcentric warfare ' in which tactical intelligence and logistics information becom
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Deciding the future of telecom
Federal telecommunications users face daunting choices at the turn of the next century. They will no longer be required to use the General Services Administration's longdistance telecom services and they will probably be deluged with calls from vendors and even other agencies touting alternatives
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Federal Networks
During the last decade federal agencies have installed networks at an astonishing rate linking people within departments connecting one department to another and bridging the distances that separate headquarters and remote users whether in branch offices or on the battlefield. The concept became kn
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Florida County Looks Ahead at One-Stop Information Shopping
The citizens of Pinellas County Fla. are ravenous for government information. Last year they dialed into 'Rlink' the county's mainframebased online information service 7 million times searching for information
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New Offerings From Netscape and Microsoft
Government agencies looking to standardize on a common browser have two primary platforms from which to choose: Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer or Netscape Communications Corp.'s Communicator
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3-D GIS System Throws Public Discourse in Relief
A few months ago Jason Kornoff was in a tough spot facing a room of citizens attending a public meeting about groundwater contamination in their east Los Angeles community.
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Kentucky Child Welfare Gets a Twist
Just a few years ago Kentucky's child welfare system was mired in paper. Program data was stored in voluminous folders finding the right file often depended on a case worker's longtime personal knowledge of the community.
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Police Get Back on the Beat With 'COPS MORE' Funding
The Clinton administration's plan to put 100,000 additional police officers on U.S. streets by 2000 is generating some healthy technology funding opportunities for local law enforcement agencies
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Leveraging the Municipal League to Protect Local Telecom Rights
The success of the telephone industry in whittling away at cities' rights to manage and regulate their local telecommunications rights-of-way has created a revenue emergency for some local governments.
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ATM rides high atop Sonet
Although sometimes pitted against each other in the race to deliver everhigher network bandwidth Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Synchronous Optical Network (Sonet) technology are more frequently teamed. ATM is fast becoming the network switching technology of choice to ride atop highspeed S
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New Technology and Business in the Civic Sector
Digital Imager of U.S. Cities Available on Internet I nexpensive accurate computerized imagery of your city can now be ordered over the Internet. Image Scans Inc. and Vexcel Corporation Inc. two Coloradobased software and imaging companies have released City Scenes
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A Year in the Making
This issue represents the first anniversary of civic.com, which we launched in November 1996
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Project Management for the People
'Plans are useless' Dwight Eisenhower once observed of making preparations for battle 'but planning is indispensable.'
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Working toward better messaging systems
For years the government's use of electronic messaging technology has been marked by a scattershot approach with individual agencies setting up their own systems and giving little regard to larger issues of interagency interoperability. In part the problem has been that most agencies have procured
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Oregon's Consumer Affairs Site Provides Vital Link to Business Services
Conventional wisdom holds that state agencies venturing onto the Internet should start small and stay practical with one or two key applications that are sure to win public approval.
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