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ATM network sets stage for multimedia applications
The Air Force late last month unveiled a new Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network at Charleston Air Force Base S.C. that officials said will position users there to exploit multimedia applications in the future. Master Sgt. Ted Crincoli said the base began installing Cisco Systems Inc. Lightscr
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Smaller is better I was pleased to see Jennifer Jones' article reporting the current restructuring of the U.S. Information Agency's (USIA) embassy libraries into Information Resource Centers (IRCs) ['Embassy libraries close doors to public go online ' FCW July 28]. A shift from the larger highmain
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Army pact to track supplies globally
The Army earlier this month awarded a $111 million contract to Savi Technology Inc. to supply equipment software and services that will enable the Defense Department to track supplies in transit across the globe. The Radio Frequency Identification Equipment acquisition is geared toward realizing wh
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Federal Bytes
Inside Washington Government watchdogs looking for examples of open government need look no farther than NASA employee Dave Lavery. Lavery telerobotics technology program manager in the space agency's Office of Space Science has a Toshiba CCD desktop camera in his office that allows viewers to chec
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OSS, SRA team for 'virtual' support to intell community
Open Source Solutions Inc. has teamed with SRA International Inc. to provide 'virtual' intelligence support to the U.S. intelligence community and other federal agencies. The aim is to integrate SRA's information technology expertise with OSS' worldwide network of intelligence professionals and sub
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Navy delivers top-notch Guam coverage; new TRAC site tracks FBI business
The Navy demonstrated the breadth of the World Wide Web and its ability to compress time and distance with the service's online coverage of the Korean Air Lines Flight 801 crash on Guam earlier this month. Thanks to the Web the Navy put Guam thousands of miles in distance and a day away in time
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Widespread cost cuts spur portables market
The notebook computer market is taking on new life in the 1997 buying season with a slew of price cuts by major vendors both on highend systems positioned as desktop replacements and on lowend systems running older Intel Corp. chips. In a twoweek period Acer America Corp. Compaq Computer Corp. D
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Exodus of key IT policy-makers could jeopardize reform efforts
The departure of many senior federal policymakers leaves an information technology management void that must be filled to sustain reforms in procurement policy according to industry and government observers. Information technology officials in the private and public sectors say Steven Kelman John
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FEDWIRE
Langston ponders move to DARPA Navy chief information officer Marvin J. Langston is considering a position at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as director of information systems. Langston's office confirmed that he is talking with DARPA about the job and expects to decide by Oct. 1. An
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OAO lands $200M job at NASA
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected OAO Corp. to negotiate the award of the fiveyear $200 million Desktop and Network Services (DNS) outsourcing contract to support 7 000 PCs. Under the performancebased contract OAO will provide personnel computer hardware and software as well as
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NASA's Electronic Handbooks offer paper-free management
Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have developed a software tool that they say enables the largest endtoend completely electronic use of the Internet by the federal government to date. The tool called Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) is designed to eliminate all paperwork required to m
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Set-Asides
Proposal would expand 8(a) program The Small Business Administration has proposed new rules for its 8(a) minority business development program designed to open the program to more firms and to give agencies more incentives to award contracts to small companies. Among the changes the proposal would
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Agencies peddle own Y2K fixes
The federal government roundly criticized for falling behind on the Year 2000 problem has paradoxically emerged as a provider of dateconversion services. A handful of federal agencies offer or soon will offer Year 2000 services proposing their own computers as test beds for other agencies' app
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Bell Atlantic rings up $11.7M win at FEMA
Bell Atlantic last week won a potential $11.7 million contract to provide wideranging telecommunications support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Under the contract Bell Atlantic will provide FEMA with centralized acquisition ordering and coordination of local telecommunications service
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Industry Watch
Viasoft gains federal customers Viasoft Inc. last week said it has six federal customers that have agreed to use its Year 2000 conversion tools under a federal pricing program launched earlier this year. The customers are the Air Force the Agriculture Department's Rural Development Agency the U.S.
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Sysorex redefines price/performance with new PC
FCW Test Center S ysorex Information Systems Inc. has targeted volume PC buyers with the addition of IBM Corp.'s PC 300XL system to its Army PC2 contract [FCW Aug. 4]. Recently we took the system into the FCW Test Center and put it through our rigorous testing procedures. What we found is that Sys
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Micro X pursues fed market
During the last four months the federal PC market lost one vendor but picked up another. In April Austin Computer Systems owned by IPC Technologies Inc. capped off a string of layoffs by dismissing most or all of its sales staff according to people familiar with the company and apparently discontin
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DOD uses low tech to find MIAs
The Pentagon owns and operates the most advanced computer and communications equipment available but during this month's mission to recover remains of American soldiers missing in action in the Korean War the Defense Department had to opt for decidedly lowtechnology tools. Typically when the DOD P
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CSC forms team for IRS bid Computer Sciences Corp. last week said it will lead a team to pursue the Internal Revenue Service's prime contract for managing the tax system modernization. CSC's team includes IBM Corp. Northrop Grumman Corp. Science Applications International Corp. and Unisys Corp. The
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