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FalconView draws rave reviews
The Air Force Reserve received recognition throughout the PC industry this month for a lowcost Windowsbased software program it developed to help Air Force Navy and Air Force One pilots plan their flights. The program called FalconView was one of five finalists at the Windows World conference in
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Pilot to test government digital-check transactions
The Financial Management Service the Defense Department and a consortium of banks and technology companies are preparing to test the feasibility of using electronic checks to automate transactions between the government and vendors or individuals. The digitalcheck program would be the first major
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SCO to release Tarantella for Internet applications
The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. this month is releasing the beta version of Tarantella a suite of software products designed to ease the process of deploying applications over the Internet. Tarantella running on top of SCO's OpenServer Unix operating system makes it possible to give Javaenabled clie
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Vendors demonstrate electronic solutions to FOIA requests
Urging federal Freedom of Information Act specialists to trade thick black markers and Exacto knives for technology four companies last week demonstrated solutions designed to ready the government for a Sept. 30 deadline by which agencies must respond electronically to some FOIA requests. BTG Inc.
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Roster
Army Maj. Gen. Paul J. Kern has been nominated for appointment to the grade of lieutenant general and the assignment as military deputy director of the Army Acquisition Corps Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research Development and Acquisition) Washington D.C. Since June 1996 Kern ha
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NIMA's Web site: Too stealthy for casual surfer
Web sites bear the stamp of their host organizations and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's site is no exception. NIMA's austere opening section for the public portion of its site (www.nima.mil) is an online reflection of the 'black' world of its two parents the Central Intelligence Agency
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Wage-determination software goes on-line
Before putting out a solicitation for a construction project or for other services the Army Corps of Engineers is required by law to contact the Labor Department for the minimum acceptable wages the Corps must pay for the services. This decadesold practice ensures that privatesector workers are n
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INDUSTRY WATCH
Compaq unveils new NT workstations Compaq Computer Corp. last week unveiled its Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 and Professional Workstation 8000 models. The Professional Workstation 6000 supports up to two 266 MHz or 300 MHz Pentium II processors with a 512K cache and up to 512M of memory. Th
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NIMA goes Hollywood
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency is turning to Hollywood to help soup up the maps and satellite imagery it provides to the military services and intelligence community. NIMA currently is evaluating a highly sophisticated system for storing retrieving and manipulating images recorded by satel
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Feds find limited applications for multimedia technology
Multimedia technology which combines sound video text and graphics is the engine behind a National Biological Service (NBS) effort to inventory Florida's waning manatee population and the fuel for a new naval doctrine series that incorporates old Hollywood movie footage. Applications such as th
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IBM rolls out new CMOS products
IBM Corp. last week introduced a new family of microprocessorbased System/390 mainframes that supersedes the capacity of the largest systems based on older processor technology. In addition to the new hardware IBM introduced a new version of its Unixbranded OS/390 operating system along with othe
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Vendors see STARS in INS program
The Immigration and Naturalization Service later this month plans to release a draft request for proposals for a halfbilliondollar megacontract to provide INS with a full range of information technology services. The upcoming Service Technology Alliance Resources (STARS) program will supply INS
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'Government makes a difference'
At a time when criticizing the federal government and its employees has become high fashion the presence of someone like John Ortego seems almost anachronistic. Quite simply Ortego still thinks our government has a substantial and positive impact on the everyday lives of U.S. citizens. And he stand
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USPS nixes $30M contract, opts for 'preferred' partners
The U.S. Postal Service last week canceled a $30 million contract for software to manage its air highway and rail transportation networks in favor of procuring the services under its recently announced "master" contracts. The Transportation and Logistics Software contract called for winning vendo
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SET-ASIDES
SBA testing Internet service for contractors The Small Business Administration is testing a new Internetbased service designed to make it easier for federal agencies and prime contractors to find small firms for contracts and subcontracts. Called the Procurement Marketing Access Network or ProNet
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Security culture needed in government
ADD THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT TO THE GROWING LIST OF FEDERAL AGENCIES THAT HAVE FALLEN VICTIM TO HACKER ATTACKS. ONCE AGAIN IT APPEARS THAT NO SENSITIVE INFORMATION WAS COMPROMISED BUT THIS LATEST UNLAWFUL INTRUSION SERVED TO HIGHLIGHT THE SEEMING EASE WITH WHICH FEDERAL SYSTEMS CAN BE COMPROMISED
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N.Y. DMV Awards Contract for International Registration Plan
N.Y. DMV Awards Contract for International Registration Plan
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AWARDS
BTG Inc. A $30.3 million award for a Structured Query Language database management system. Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts Office of Information Technology. Science Applications International Corp. A $4.4 million award to provide Global Information Infrastructure gateways to 20 African cou
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DOD counting on contractors to get compliance work done
The Defense Department is repairing or has scheduled the renovation of about 11 percent of its nearly 14 000 information technology systems in its Year 2000 compliance effort and expects to rely on contractors to get the work done. Sam Worthington DOD's director of IT and the Year 2000 program mana
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