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Five vendors tappedfor $100M Y2K work
The U.S. Postal Service this week is expected to sign ordering agreements with five vendors to provide wideranging Year 2000 services for the agency nationwide agreements that could be worth $100 million in business according to industry sources. The five vendors Computer Sciences Corp. Unisys
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Firm sets up on-linetracking service
A Reston Va.based information technology procurement consulting firm last month began marketing an online service that allows vendors to track the status of federal procurements. The Federal Capture Group's service called ITFedStrat 2000 initially will track up to 1 000 opportunities said Joe Coo
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CDC molds nationwide collaboration of immunization databases
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that slightly more than threequarters of the nation's children are properly vaccinated by the age of 2. As part of an effort to increase that figure to 90 percent by 2000 the agency is developing a nationwide 'mosaic' of immunization databas
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Savant targets feds with Oracle database tool
Savant Corp. is gearing up for a federal sales push of its Oracle Corp. database systems management product.Savant Bethesda Md. markets Q Diagnostic Center for Oracle which is designed to help database administrators track the health of Oracle 7 database environments. Since its release last Novembe
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Round Two
AN ARTICLE IN THE JUNE 2 ISSUE OF FEDERAL COMPUTER WEEK ERRONEOUSLY STATED THAT LT. COL. WILLIAM GOLDEN HAD BEEN A PILOT EARLIER IN HIS CAREER. IN FACT HE BEGAN HIS AIR FORCE CAREER SERVING AS A MISSILE CONTROL OFFICER ONBOARD AIRCRAFT SUCH AS 'LOOKING GLASS.' WE REGRET THE ERROR.
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Set-Asides
Agencies not ready for GPRA When the Government Performance and Results Act goes into effect this fall most agencies will not have completed the analysis required to develop comprehensive strategic plans the General Accounting Office concluded. In a study published last week GAO reported that in on
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Letters to the Editor
Notion of saving money I read with concern the many statements by industry and some Congressional personnel regarding the FAA's award of the ICEMAN contract to the Agriculture Department. It is not the responsibility of government to provide corporate welfare to private industry (timber land and mi
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Census launches pact to outsource data centers
The Census Bureau last month released a statement of work for the second part of a system that will for the first time electronically capture data for the 2000 census. With the Data Capture Services Contract (DCSC) the bureau is looking for a contractor that will acquire and manage a number of data
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E-mail: Look before you delete
NASA's recent decision to automatically destroy all departmental electronic mail after 60 days regardless of the digital message's significance shows how little the government has progressed in setting a policy that will preserve electronic historical records for future Americans to study. The
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FAA weighs leasing option for computer equipment
Looking for more flexibility in how it procures computer equipment the Federal Aviation Administration is considering leasing computer equipment including its desktops and servers instead of buying what it needs outright. The FAA is looking at the benefits of leasing on a broad scale with interGMT
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NIST initiative will shine spotlight on Elliptic Curve
A recent initiative at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to broaden the government's Digital Signature Standard (DSS) has increased the visibility of a littleknown encryption technology: Elliptic Curve. NIST last month said it plans to develop a proposed revision to DSS that would
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Four-star Adm. Clemins starts C2 revolution with IT-21
PEARL HARBOR Hawaii Not many fourstar admirals bother to burrow down into the technical underpinnings of their command and control (C2) systems. Adm. Archie Clemins commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT) headquartered here has not only mastered arcane technical jargon but he h
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Roster
Ira Hobbs has been named deputy chief information officer at the Agriculture Department under Anne Reed the department's CIO. A permanent replacement has not yet been named for Hobbs who was director of operations at the USDA. Col. Marcia Tamblyn commander of the Defense Information Technology Cont
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Federal Bytes
No fun allowed Who says working for the federal government cannot be fun? Apparently many government workers have been having a ball playing computer games at work. According to a recent issue of CIO magazine users of government computers logged more than 5 000 hours during a recent threemonth per
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Panel plans to beef up Computer Security Act
Calling the lack of computer security in the federal government 'a national crisis ' Rep. Constance Morella (RMd.) announced last week that the House Science Committee plans to introduce a bill this month to strengthen the 10yearold Computer Security Act. Designed to establish minimum security s
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CBO pitches voucher plan for FEHBP to Congress
Although the details of the budget agreement still need to be ironed out it appears that federal employees will be specifically identified as casualties in the war against the budget deficit. And why not? They don't have much clout come election time. Congress has not yet identified the specific sa
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Hill probes Mac-PC controversy
The Johnson Space Center's controversial policy to standardize all the center's workstations on a single PC platform has now drawn fire from Congress which is concerned that NASA may have violated fairandopencompetition rules. Last week a group of House members was garnering support for a letter
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GSA awards small firms FAST $3.6B
The General Services Administration's National Capital Region has selected 40 small and disadvantaged vendors to receive contracts totaling as much as $3.6 billion for information technology integration services and products.[ ]The awards worth up to $90 million apiece and some of which are still a
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