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New Technology and Business in the Civic Sector
New GIS Software Increases Ease and Accuracy of Property Maps The geographic information system (GIS) software industry is becoming increasingly specialized toward the needs of state and local government users.
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Groupware Speeds Emergency Measures
It's an old joke: What are the four seasons in California? Fires floods earthquakes and mud slides.
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The Sweetest Suites
Once upon a time an office suite was just a bunch of applications thrown into a box and tagged with a discounted price.
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Bridging the Gap Between Citizens and City Decision-Makers
During a computer simulated drive over a new design for San Francisco's Bay Bridge, elected city officials gasped as they accelerated over an incline into a panoramic view ofblue sky.
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Healthy Technology Options for State and Local Health Care Agencies
Laura Larsson gave up hope long ago that the public health nutritionists she helps train would get access anytime soon to the technology necessary to mine the wealth of health information now on the Internet. '
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Illinois Comptroller: How to Turn Around an Administrative System on the Brink of Crisis
When Illinois Comptroller Loleta Didrickson entered office two years ago she faced a situation about to implode. Not a fiscal one but a deadend computer platform and archaic accounting procedures that threatened to stymie management of the state's $35 billion budget.
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Hawaii's Campaign Spending Site Gets the Vote
Even as the campaign spending hearings in Washington highlight abuses and prompt calls for reform the state of Hawaii has found a way to let the average citizen see where the money is coming from and where it is going.
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CSC nabs $171.4 M Volpe services pact
Computer Sciences Corp. last week captured a $171.4 million information systems services contract at the Transportation Department's Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. In winning the deal CSC unseated incumbent Unisys Corp. which held the contract for 18 years. Also competing for the con
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INS upgrade reaches for $1.2B Stars
The Immigration and Naturalization Service this month launched a $1.2 billion project to bring the agency 'out of the Dark Ages.' INS released the request for proposals for the Service Technology Alliance Resources (Stars) project a multipleaward contract that the agency will use to provide itself
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DOD tests BPAs for leasing pilot
In what the Defense Department views as a stepping stone to a new era of computer acquisition, DOD's Health Affairs branch this year plans to award multiple blanket purchase agreements for leasing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of hardware a year. If the program proves successful, Health Aff
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Do other laws establish exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act?
In response to a recent column about the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) a reader suggested that the fiscal 1997 National Defense Authorization Act had established an important exemption to FOIA for certain vendorproposal documents. Another reader has asked if a vendor could protect documents fr
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Fedwire
HUD CIO Yohai to retire next month Steven Yohai the chief information officer of the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced last week his intention to resign saying he had completed the career goals he had set. Yohai who oversees HUD's $200 million information technology budget has s
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Roster
Allan Brown associate administrator for the procurement innovation branch within the Office of Federal Procurement Policy has been named temporary administrator of the office following the Sept. 12 departure of former administrator Steven Kelman. Federal Sources Inc. announced last week that Robert
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Hewlett-Packard to ship plug-and-play CD drive
HewlettPackard Co. plans this week to begin shipping a new plugandplay compact disc drive designed to provide an alternative to floppy disks for storing large files. The HP SureStore CDWriter Plus would enable users to record data on CDRecordable (CDR) or CDRewritable (CDRW) discs. Although
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Compaq shows Pentium II machines, Net PC wares
Compaq Computer Corp. today updated its Deskpro PC line with Pentium IIpowered models which are headed toward the Air Force's Desktop V among other federal contracts. Compaq introduced the Pentium IIequipped products in its Deskpro 2000 4000 and 6000 lines. The products feature 233 MHz 266 MHz an
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Awards
Digital Systems Research Inc. A $20.2 million award for the localarea network support acquisition project. Agriculture Department Office of Operations Procurement Operations Division Washington D.C. BTG Inc. An $11.4 million award to provide services for the Army's Information Management Support C
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CIO crusades for equal federal and industry payscales
Amid mounting rumors that he will soon leave his post as chief information officer at the General Services Administration Joe Thompson stops short of confirming any immediate plans to retire. But he will look you right in the eye and say he has had offers from industry offers that pay far better
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AF pact pumps up base protection
As part of its response to the June 1996 terrorist bombing of a U.S. Air Force military complex in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 airmen and wounded 250 others the Air Force this month awarded TRW Inc. a $495 million contract to build intrusiondetection systems for U.S. military bases worldwide. The
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Improper drug-test request backfires on Marine Corps
A recent decision by the Federal Court of Appeals demonstrates that federal employees need not be intimidated by strongarm tactics imposed by agency managers. The case involved Gary Cox a utility systems operator at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma Ariz. who refused to provide a urine sample f
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