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A Lesson Plan for Educational IT
To read the literature on the state of U.S. educational technology you would think teachers had become one of the biggest stumbling blocks to a perfectly digital interactive elementary and secondary school system technology primitives barring the door to classrooms from young shining faces year
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SBA proposal would promote joint ventures
The Small Business Administration last month proposed waiving the rules that apply to small companies that form joint ventures in order to enable more of them to compete for large contracts. The plan included in proposed rules revamping the SBA's 8(a) minority business development program would app
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EdgeMark inks BPA with NIH
The National Institutes of Health has awarded EdgeMark Systems Inc. Silver Spring Md. a blanket purchase agreement for highperformance workstations servers and scientific visualization software. Julia Kiraly a business development analyst with EdgeMark said the company will supply hardware from Si
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Vendors build on 440LX chipset
PC vendors last week unveiled desktops and servers featuring Intel Corp.'s newly released chipset that gives the Pentium II processor a graphics and throughput boost. The 440LX AGPset chipset features Intel's Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) a technology designed to optimize Pentium II systems for h
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Sperry Marine, NIMA team on ocean chart project
Nautical electronics company Litton Marine Systems Inc. last month began work with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency to develop a commercial computer program that will read and display information from a vital NIMA database housing information on maritime features. The relationship between th
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Workflow technology buries business processes in applications
Now that most federal agencies have developed a firm network infrastructure many are building applications that marry their business processes to that technology. The concept is what is loosely labeled workflow in which software automates a business process and allows for tracking and control of th
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Telcos dispute capacity-shortage claims on DTS-C
Although the Defense Information Systems Agency blamed an 'industry shortage" for AT&T Government Markets' inability to meet schedule and technology requirements for a new domestic communications network rival vendors disagreed. These firms also disputed statements by AT&T that it sought to but co
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International Banking Goes Local in Florida
International banking may not be in overwhelming demand in say Kansas or Idaho but in Florida it's big business. And until recently international banking consumed significant amounts of time and materials in the Florida Office of the Comptroller.
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Visio offers software upgrade, pursues federal customers
Visio Corp. last month upgraded its Microsoft Corp. Windowsbased business diagramming and technical drawing software which is available through federal resellers. Visio Seattle unveiled its Visio 5.0 product line which includes Visio Standard Visio Professional and Visio Technical. The products fe
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FAA officially awards IT upgrade pact to Harris
As expected the Federal Aviation Administration last week officially awarded Harris Corp. an estimated $120 million contract to replace a system that supplies generalaviation pilots with weather briefings and flightplanning services. Harris will replace the 15yearold flight service automation p
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A taste of its own medicine
The General Services Administration's multibilliondollar governmentwide information technology procurement program for 8(a) companies is turning out to be a real eyeopener for GSA. Leaders of GSA's Federal Acquisition Services for Technology (FAST) program last week announced plans to increase th
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Two firms craft solutions to date-fixing dilemma
A small womanowned business and a large integrator have stepped forward with nontraditional approaches to fixing the Year 2000 problem. Resolve 2000 Inc. Columbia Md. has developed a method for making legacy data Year 2000compliant without expanding date fields or heavily modifying software progr
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Sometimes We Need 'Big Brother'
In the 1960s citizens became aware that intelligencegathering agencies such as the FBI CIA and various military intelligence agencies were infiltrating 'bad guy' organizations to learn as much as possible about threats to our government and our way of life.
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Roster
Market analyst John Kost head of the State and Local Division at Federal Sources Inc. accepted a position last month on the General Accounting Office's Executive Council on Information Management and Technology. The council brings together leaders from the public and private sectors to explore ways
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Can contract proposals be released under the Freedom of Information Act?
A reader asked the following question: To what extent is an agency allowed to release an offeror's proposal under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)? This is another of those seemingly simple questions to which the answer is surprisingly complex. As set forth in FOIA Exemption 4 the act does not
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Awards
Sensor Systems Inc. A $7.7 million award for enhancements to a multimodality radiological image processing system. Navy Fleet Industrial and Supply Center Detachment Washington 901 M St. S.E. Washington Navy Yard Building 2004 Washington D.C. 20374. Suncoast Scientific Inc. An $857 404 award for d
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Open GIS Consortium ratifies software interface standards
The Open GIS Consortium Inc. last month ratified software interface standards that will pave the way for products that could allow agencies to share mapping data more easily. Vendors in coming months are expected to incorporate the new standards written for simple geographic features in the OLE/C
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Intercepts
* Deca's DISN dismay. The Defense Commissary Agency asked DISA more than a year ago for a waiver from requirements to use DISN and delays in the rollout of the domestic longhaul network have only solidified the agency's desire to jump from the DISN ship according to signals picked up at my Fort Le
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Agenda
SEPTEMBER 25 OSS '97 Sixth Annual International Conference and Exhibit. Marriott Crystal Gateway. Washington D.C.This is the Global Conference Dedicated to Open Source Intelligence.Call (703) 2421700 Web www.oss.net. 35 TelcoCable IX: The Ninth Annual Conference on the Battle for the Digital
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