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OMB: IT service orders must include specifics
The Office of Management and Budget is preparing to issue new regulations that will require agencies planning to buy information technology services from the General Services Administration's multipleaward schedules program to provide more detailed specifications on the type of work they will ask
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Report: Agencies' Internet, BBS tab hits $349 million
Federal agencies spent $349 million on Internet and electronic bulletin board system activities from fiscal 1994 through 1996 according to a report that was released last week by the General Accounting Office. The bulk of the expenditures about $325 million was spent on giving employees access to t
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Net fills FACNET void
After several years of feetdragging on a government mandate to do business electronically federal agencies are embracing the Internet as an inexpensive easy and fast way to conduct electronic commerce. The availability of new commercial products and tools along with easy access to the Internet are
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Intergraph unveils reduced-cost, four-way enterprise server
Intergraph Computer Systems today announced two Microsoft Corp. Windows NT servers targeting enterprise and departmental computing that offer a price point up to $6 000 lower than previous models. Intergraph's InterServe 650tx and 660tx servers run up to four 200 MHz Pentium Pro processors. The pro
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Round Two
WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY INC. SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THE LIST OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 8(A) COMPANIES LISTED IN THE JUNE 9 FEDERAL INTEGRATOR SUPPLEMENT. THE COMPANY SHOULD HAVE APPEARED AS THE FIFTHRANKED COMPANY WITH FEDERAL IT REVENUE OF $72.5 MILLION. AN UPDATED RANKING IS AVAILABLE AT WWW
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AMS wins contract to track federal employees' nest eggs
American Management Systems Inc. last week announced an estimated $30 million contract to develop and install a recordkeeping system that will track the more than $47 billion that federal employees have invested in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The system will help manage TSP a retirement savings
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Letters to the Editor
Industry needs to stop whining over ICEMAN I have been following the issues associated with the award of the ICEMAN contract to the USDA and I have never heard such whining before. It certainly seems unseemly coming as it does from the captains of industry. What is this unfair competition nonsense
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DISA scales back DMS 'grand design'
The Defense Information Systems Agency has abandoned its 'grand design' plans for the halfbilliondollar Defense Message System and will refocus its development efforts so DMS 'converges' more closely with commercial products according to Lt. Gen. Al Edmonds who acknowledged on June 6 his last day
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EDS to capture $26M DEIS II task order
Electronic Data Systems Corp. is on the brink of capturing the largest task order to be awarded under the Defense Enterprise Integration Services II pact: an estimated $26 million job to develop an ammunition inventory system for all the services. The Defense Information Systems Agency which manage
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Agriculture hit by hacker attack
The Agriculture Department's Foreign Agricultural Service last week fell victim to a new computer attack which was planted by an unauthorized user taking control of the agency's system. A hacker broke into the service's system on June 9 and began sending out a deluge of messages to an undetermined
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Intercepts
CIO confusion. SecDef William Cohen who should have more insight than anyone into the ClingerCohen Act of 1996 (except for Clinger) waited until June 2 one business day after Emmett Paige Jr. departed the building as ASD/C3I to send out a policy memo designating the ASD/C3I as the DOD CIO. Thi
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Hughes STX wins $148M pact
The NASA Ames Research Center last week awarded Hughes STX Corp. a $148 million contract to support the use of information technology in its vast array of research activities which range from testing new highspeed aircraft in a massive wind tunnel to searching the universe for other life forms. Un
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GAO pushes DOD for better financial software processes
As part of its review of the Defense Department's financial management systems the General Accounting Office is pushing the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) to improve software development processes at its Indianapolis facility. DOD has been under scrutiny for several years because of
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CBD Watch
Army. Software engineering and technical support services. Sol. DAAB0797R0017. (CBD June 10) (Site Code DAAB07) This is a modification to presolicitation notices published Aug. 28 1996 and March 27 1997 for a software engineering and technical support services solicitation (formerly DAEA3296R
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Micron agrees to buy NetFrame
Micron Electronics Inc. last week agreed to acquire NetFrame Systems Inc. a move that would bring together a direct PC manufacturer and an enterprise server vendor. Micron Nampa Idaho markets notebooks PCs and lowend servers. NetFrame Milpitas Calif. sells highend multiprocessor servers with cont
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FEDWIRE
Koskinen to leave OMB John Koskinen deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget plans to leave the government sometime within the next few weeks according to a Clinton administration official. Koskinen who was appointed to the position in 1994 has not announced his future
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Motorola taps Entex for GSA push
In an effort to attract new business for the federal state and local governments Motorola Inc.'s networking unit plans to offer its complete product line on Entex Information Services' General Services Administration schedule. "This will be the beginning of a change for us " said Scott Merriman d
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GSA to merge IT skeds into one-stop shop
The General Services Administration announced last week that it will merge its five automated data processing schedules contracts into one large single schedule called the Federal Supply Service Information Technology Schedule. The new category of schedule contracts will encompass products and serv
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GAO ducks SSA's Internet security issue
For just less than 10 years the Social Security Administration has been providing a Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statement (PEBES) to any individual requesting it. The statement previously provided by mail includes a yearly record of earnings estimates of Social Security taxes paid and ex
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