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Draft plan requires agency use of key-recovery technology
While the debate on encryption policy continues to play out this month on Capitol Hill a technical advisory committee has yet to decide whether to force agencies to include the controversial key recovery in a standard it is developing for governmentwide use. The committee which is developing a stan
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Custom solutions dominate Internet-based electronic commerce arena
The Air Force and Hughes Data Systems Irvine Calif. have been working for six months to establish an electronic ordering system that allows federal buyers on the Desktop V contract to order products over the Internet. Using the International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card (IMPAC) and a recent
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Roster
Anne Thomson Reed was officially named chief information officer at the Agriculture Department after serving as acting CIO for one year. During the past year Reed has focused on implementing the Information Technology Management and Reform Act developing an IT architecture for the USDA cutting tele
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INS to issue digital green cards
As part of its widescale effort to rebuff illegal immigration the Immigration and Naturalization Service this month plans to replace the 'green card ' which legal immigrants use for identification and employment purposes with what agency officials hope will be a more secure card bearing encoded dig
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Madge unveils LAN-based videoconferencing switch
Madge Networks Inc. introduced today a switch that will let users connect localarea networkbased videoconferencing systems with Integrated Services Digital Networkbased infrastructures. Called the Madge LAN Video Gateway the product is a stackable switch that translates a H.323 LAN packet into a
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Minolta signs reseller pact with BTG
Just months after shipping its first brandname line of laser printers Minolta Corp. late last month signed BTG Inc. to sell its products on the National Institutes of Health's Electronic Computer Store contract. Minolta also is in the final stages of adding its printer line to the General Services
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Bay upgrades network management product
Bay Networks Inc. tomorrow will launch the latest version of its enterprise network management system which includes technology designed to ease the deployment of advanced networks. Optivity Network Management System 8.0 is a Unixbased product made for largescale networks. Among the product's new
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Novell offers licensing program on GSA sked
Novell Inc. has launched a software licensing program through the General Services Administration schedule that offers federal buyers discounts of at least 42 percent on volume purchases. Novell's Master License Agreement (MLA) program has been available in the commercial market and on such indefin
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NEC seeks new markets for ID tech
Reaching a sales plateau with buyers of law enforcement technology NEC Technologies has begun targeting new markets for the company's fingerprint identification technology. The primary target of the new market thrust for NEC is commercial operations such as hotels that could use fingerprint technol
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New Technology and Business in the Civic Sector
The (3D) Streets of Philadelphia Virtual reality is starting to transform City Hall. Bentley Systems Inc. an Exton Pa.based engineering software firm made a prototype of 'ModelCity Philadelphia ' an interactive 3D software model of the city
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No self-promotion on Kerrey, SEAL sites
'G. I. Jane ' the recently released movie starring Demi Moore as the first woman allowed to train for the honored and demanding Navy SEALs offers up a onedimensional and comic book take on Special Operations Forces (SOFs) that bears little relation to reality. Navy SEALs and Army Green Berets come
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Navy delivers ground-to-air target imagery
Working behind the camera and not in front of it the real SEALs outdid 'G.I. Jane' last week in a Navy experiment that for the first time transmitted photographs of enemy targets in a remote location to a Navy ship and then into the cockpit of an F/A18 fighter. The SEALs the Navy's elite Special O
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Federal Bytes
Slashin' prices When federal procurement shops pledged to run themselves like businesses we didn't know that meant like usedcar dealerships. One Navy shop recently sent out an email advertising itself as 'The Computer Store for the IT Professional.' It reads: 'Need a statement of work prepared? L
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DOD orders info-assurance review
With electronic information playing an everlarger role in Defense operations Secretary of Defense William Cohen last month formed a panel to look at how DOD manages its critical data and protects against information warfare and system vulnerabilities. DOD is tackling a concept called 'information
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Fed employees can test career skills online
A new system developed by the Office of Personnel Management would let federal employees and those who want to work for the government evaluate their skills and identify job opportunities in government agencies. Launched late last month USA Careers (www.usacareers.opm.gov) offers users online tests
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Fortner fine-tunes gear for federal data mining
Fortner Software formerly Fortner Research has revamped its federal strategy and is launching a new datamining product aimed at helping researchers at NASA and other agencies tap into large amounts of stored information. Fortner which has supplied data visualization applications and Fortran develo
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NIH probes options for opening governmentwide contracts to D.C.
The National Institutes of Health is exploring whether it can allow the District of Columbia to buy information systems from NIH contracts after Department of Health and Human Services lawyers advised the agency it could not legally shepherd such purchases. The district wants to buy from at least t
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Grading Educational Information Technology
Students at California's East Bakersfield High School run a computerized business office as part of a schooltowork program that educators say has improved graduation and job placement rates.
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