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USPS delivers $3 billion MNS contract to MCI
The U.S. Postal Service last week awarded the largest telecommunications contract in its history to MCI. Called Managed Network Services the contract may be worth as much as $3 billion over 11 years as MCI builds manages and owns the telecommunications infrastructure that will support retail termin
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HP, Microsoft ally for NT
HewlettPackard Co. and Microsoft Corp. earlier this month announced a sweeping strategy for jointly delivering products and services that could further boost the role of Windows NT and other Microsoft products in the enterprise environment. The strategy covers everything from Windows NT servers an
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Five vendors seize 7-year SISTIR pact
The Food and Drug Administration this month awarded a $200 million contract to five vendors that will provide the agency with nearly all its information technology needs into the next century. The sevenyear Strategic Information Systems Technical Integration Resources (SISTIR) contract was awarded
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Vendors upgrade pacts with range of IT wares
Information technology vendors used the occasion of the recent FOSE conference in Washington D.C. to unveil new product additions to federal contracts. Vendors promoted a range of wares from highend PCs equipped with Pentium Pro chips to PC Cards designed for specialized security applications. I
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Pacific Fleet sails into cyberspace
HONOLULU The 'tyranny of distance' has continually confounded sailors since Magellan set out on his epic journey across the Pacific Ocean. Nearly 500 years later the U.S. Pacific Fleet based here has yet to find a way to shorten the sailing time across this ocean. But the fleet has discovered tha
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What is required in a CBD synopsis?
A reader raised the following issue: Government agencies are required to announce contracting opportunities in the Commerce Business Daily and the notices are not uniformly written. What is required in a CBD synopsis? How important are these announcements? Under Federal Acquisition Regulation 5.101
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GAO to examine ways nonfederal groups protect data
The chairman and the minority leader of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee this month asked the General Accounting Office to study the best security measures and policies that nonfederal organizations use to protect their computer systems. Sens. Fred Thompson (RTenn.) and John Glenn (DOhio
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Intercepts
HONOLULU Thanks but no thanks. The Interceptor flyaway rig has touched down here en route to WesPac with heavy traffic coming in from my Courthouse Road stealth site. Despite strong signals earlier this month that Maj. Gen. David Kelley had been all but fitted for the DISA honcho official unifor
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Eagle Award winners
Kathleen Adams assistant deputy commissioner for systems at the Social Security Administration won Federal Computer Week's Eagle Award for government service and John Gioia chairman and chief executive officer of RobbinsGioia Inc. was the industry Eagle winner. Each year two professional organizat
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AWARDS
Frontier Technology Inc. A $15 million award to provide studies and analysis of affordability lethality survivability and supportability. Joint Strike Fighter Program Office 1745 Jefferson Davis Highway Suite 307 Arlington Va. 22202. SRA International Inc. A $7.8 million task order to provide infor
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DISA puts computer store on hold to resolve issues
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week put on hold plans to create a virtual computer store that would provide hardware and maintenance services to the Defense Department. The agency withdrew a draft statement of work for its Defense Information Infrastructure Equipment and Maintenance (D
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Balancing Net access and risk
The recent survey of federal agencies by the Computer Security Institute and the FBI confirms what many observers suspected: Unauthorized use of computer systems is rising. Other interesting information gleaned from the survey includes the fact that system misuse in the government is greater than f
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Industry Watch
GTE protests HITS award GTE Hawaiian Telephone as expected filed a protest earlier this month against the award of the Hawaii Information Transfer System contract to AT&T. The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded AT&T the HITS pact in February. AT&T submitted a bid of $291 million. GTE submit
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FTA to tap college-driven bus site
The Federal Transportation Administration will soon have at its disposal an Internetbased geographic information system (GIS) to help it track how cities are spending federal funds on public bus systems. As part of its mission to support highquality public transportation the FTA each year gives h
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DOD inches toward $1B SPS contract
The Defense Department is close to awarding the $1 billion Standard Procurement System although the Pentagon now appears likely to miss its March target for awarding the contract. SPS is intended to provide DOD contracting offices with a standard procurement application that takes advantage of comm
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White House proposal sparks new debate over public keys
The Clinton administration last week rekindled the debate over whether law enforcement officials should have special access to encrypted data when it circulated draft legislation that the White House contends is needed to promote secure electronic commerce.
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FSS, Fedcac go head-to-head with leasing contracts
Sources at the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service said last week a program announced this month by another GSA component will compete with computer leasing schedule contracts they plan to award as early as next month. FSS sources said officials within their organization were u
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ALMRS not ready, GAO says
The Bureau of Land Management got its hands slapped by the General Accounting Office for having too aggressive an implementation schedule for its massive Automated Land and Mineral Record System (ALMRS). In a March report to a House subcommittee GAO also said BLM did not have the policies or proced
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SET-ASIDES
JIEO awards protested The Defense Information Systems Agency has suspended the recently awarded Joint Interoperability and Engineering Organization's Systems Engineering (JIEO) contract in light of an agencylevel protest filed by Science Applications International Corp. The JIEO program was awarde
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