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Lucent, GTE to share Navy Vivid contract
The Navy last week awarded contracts to four vendors for up to $2.9 billion worth of telecommunications equipment and services only to see two of the winners abruptly withdraw from the program because they feared their awards were too small to cover the required investment in the program.
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Energy gives colleges access to super CPUs
Setting a new standard for government/academic partnerships the Energy Department announced plans to give five universities unprecedented access to the agency's supercomputers and $250 million in funding to develop advanced software tools for nuclear weapons research. Under its Academic Strategic A
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As DISA turns. In yet another installment of my favorite series 'What's Up on Courthouse Road? ' I've confirmed that Col. (promotable) James Hylton will depart the Army Signal Command at Fort Huachuca Ariz. later this month for a new job as director of operations for DISA. Hylton currently the ASC
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Navy awards 5 BPAs
Over the last two weeks the Navy's Atlantic Fleet has awarded blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) to five vendors for PC notebooks desktops and servers that conform to the Navy's Information Technology for the 21st Century strategy. Under the new BPAs open Navywide BTG Inc. GE Capital Informatio
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OMB silence slows outsourcing
Agencies have less than a year to meet the Office of Management and Budget's June 1998 deadline for consolidating or outsourcing many of the 200 or so federal data centers. While it is not uncommon to wait until the 11th hour to begin work on a project the feetdragging also shows the ageold polit
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Arizona Drivers Ready to Lay Rubber on the Internet
By the end of July the MVD, in partnership with IBM Corp.'s Government Service Delivery Program, will launch a Web site
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Training the IT Work Force From the Ground Up
Faster, flatter, friendlier.' That's how Mobile Ala. Mayor Michael Dow sees the city's government in the 21st century.
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Team Building in the IT Shop
In the midst of a national information technology staffing crisis, California's Health and Welfare Data Center (HWDC), professional home to some 450 IT workers, has an astounding personnel record.
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Imaging Software Suite Assists Police Identifications
This spring the California Highway Patrol was looking for help for the witnesses to a childabduction case who were faced with manually examining hundreds of photos of cars thought to have been used in the crime.
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The New Universal-Service Rules: Less Than Meets the Eye
On May 8 the Federal Communications Commission released its longawaited rules defining how universal telecommunications service will be achieved.
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CDPD: Does It Work Yet?
When Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) service first appeared in 1994, it was heralded as a panacea to the cellular modem blues.
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Ivory Towers and Electronic Government
As information technology's advance approaches Mach speed how can state and local government professionals not just the usual publicsector IT crowdkeep pace with emerging applications?
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Michigan Data Center Consolidation: How Did They Pull It Off?
The state of Michigan has almost completed a massive data center consolidation effort which has reduced 17 mainframe data centers to two and will save an estimated $79 million in its first five years of operation. The effort started five years ago and incorporated a chargeback revolving fund that
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Roster
Charlie Self this month was confirmed as assistant commissioner of the General Services Administration's Office of Information Technology Integration a position he has held since last September. David Bittenbender former director of telecommunications at the Justice Department last week began work
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INTERCEPTS
Reform pork. The bulk of the Defense Reform Act of 1997 (see story Page 12) deals with all kinds of reforms but a clause tacked on to the end shows stopping technopork is not one of them. This section of the bill directs the Pentagon to install a fiberoptic metropolitanarea network (MAN) in at l
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CDSI snares $30M pact to overhaul grant system
The Education Department last week awarded a $30 million contract to CDSI Business Applications Solutions (BAS) Co. to reengineer operate and maintain the financial management computer system for the department's Pell Grant program one of the largest financial aid programs in the nation. The Clint
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Agencies victimized by more complex attacks
BRISTOL England Almost half the security incidents handled in the past eight months by the newly established Federal Computer Incident Response Capability team for civilian agencies were system intrusions according to recently released FedCIRC statistics obtained by Federal Computer Week at the F
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20-year IBM veteran is a keywitness to computer evolution
John Nyland's 20year career at IBM Corp. has given him a front row seat for computing's evolution establishing him as a key player in the company's ability to respond to recent changes in federal computing and procurement. Nyland joined IBM in 1977 when host computing and custom systems were the r
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Mars mission to test use of Internet
When the space probe Pathfinder lands on Mars July 4 unfolds its three solar panels and deploys a tiny rover that scientists will control remotely to collect information Earthbound Internet users also will have the opportunity to guide a simulated Martian rover. The project part of a NASA outreach
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