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High-risk systems waste billions
At two congressional hearings last week auditors from the General Accounting Office said information technology weaknesses have cost the government billions of dollars in fraud overpayments of benefits and purchases of unnecessary goods. The fraud and waste as well as poor service to citizens occur
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Defense spending on C4I to hit $40B
Defense Department spending on command control communications computers and intelligence (C4I) will hit $40 billion in fiscal 1998 a $3 billion jump from fiscal 1997 a top DOD official said last month. Fiscal 1998 spending for C4I will remain 'robust' to support battlefield 'information dominance '
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Sutten leads the evolution of the Army Signal Command
FORT HUACHUCA Ariz. To paraphrase Winston Churchill Maj. Gen. Charles Sutten did not intend to preside over the demise of the Army Signal Command (ASC) here when he took over as commanding general of its predecessor the Information Systems Command (ISC) in July 1995. But Sutten faced a situation
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Data General, ESRI ally
Data General Corp. and Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. late last month inked a deal that allows ESRI to resell Data General Aviion servers running ESRI's Arc/Info 7.1 Windows NT software a graphic application for working with geographic data. Both the server and ESRI's stable of softw
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GTSI focuses on mobile computing, Net security
Government Technology Services Inc. is bundling products and services into specific solutions in areas such as Internet security and wireless mobile computing. The new solutions are spearheaded by a GTSI "technology team" focused on networking and emerging technologies. The team is offering solut
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DISA discloses secret NSA pact with Sprint
The Defense Information Systems Agency late last month publicly acknowledged a contract awarded to Sprint last fall for a classified global telecommunications network designed primarily to serve the supersecret National Security Agency according to industry analysts. Sources said last week that Sp
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DOD readies health services RFP
The Defense Department plans to issue a request for proposals next month for a potential billiondollar followon to an existing medical systems contract that will make military patient records in DOD's sprawling health care network electronically accessible from anywhere in the world. DOD's health
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ROSTER
Lynn McNulty former president of McNulty & Associates information security consulting firm has accepted the position of director of government affairs for RSA Data Security Inc.'s McLean Va. office. RSA is a heavyhitter in the cryptography and OEM security software market with an installed base of
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Access signs sales pact with Cordant
Cordant recently signed a sales agreement with Access Corp. to market Cimage document management software to federal organizations. Access is the exclusive North American distributor for Cimage.[ ]Cordant a unit of Tracor Inc. Austin Texas is selling Cimage under the Naval Facilities Engineering Co
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OMB's rules could rehash interagency buying
Federal agencies and vendors involved with governmentwide contracts said last week that management guidelines for such vehicles recently issued by the Office of Management and Budget generally make 'common sense.' But one of the recommendations that agencies think about limiting interagency purch
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GAO guidebook outlines steps for wise spending decisions
Agencies trying to figure out how information technology expenditures will benefit their operations without posing undue risks can turn to a new General Accounting Office guidebook for evaluating IT investments. The publication "Assessing Risks and Returns: A Guide for Evaluating Federal Agencies'
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AMS, KPMG, Lockheed vie for NASA deal
NASA has narrowed the field to three vendors for a 15year contract that will provide an agencywide integrated core financial management system using commercial software packages. The project is thought to be among the first in the federal government to integrate systems supporting various financia
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The Eagle Awards
The Eagle Awards will be announced on March 19 at the dinner honoring the Federal 100 winners. The Eagle Awards are given to two individuals each year one from government and one from industry who have made outstanding contributions to the federal IT community in the previous year. They are sel
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SET-ASIDES
OMB: Raise limit on executive compensation T he Office of Management and Budget late last month submitted to Congress a proposal to remove the current $200 000 limit on executive compensation as an allowable cost on contracts. OMB wants to base allowable costs on commercial compensation surveys. Un
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AGENDA
11 Small Business Procurement Conference. Fort Myer Officers Club. Arlington Va.Call Nomiki Handakaros at (301) 2062940 extension 238. 11 International Council on Systems Engineering dinner meeting. Tysons Corner Va.Call Abe Meilich at (703) 9131505 email abe.meilich@lmco.com Web www.vtcorp.com/
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VA opens up PAIRS - again
The Department of Veterans Affairs last month changed directions with its procurement strategy for a large agency computer services contract and decided to permit all contractors regardless of size to compete. The move sparked questions and criticism from the Small Business Administration because t
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Cisco alliance seeks interoperability, lower integration costs
Cisco Systems Inc. has formed an industry alliance with seven other information technology companies to mesh security products and standards into an interoperable enterprise framework. Alliance members include Cylink Corp. HewlettPackard Co. Microsoft Corp. Oracle Corp. RSA Data Security Inc. Secu
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CBD WATCH
Air Transport Association. Research and development for an Aviation LocalArea Network Augmentation System for the Global Positioning System. Sol. AVLAAS10. (CBD March 6) Several questions were submitted regarding the AVLAAS request for proposals. Answers can be obtained via the Internet/ATA home
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Federal Data woos NYMA
In a bid to boost its presence in the professionalservices arena Federal Data Corp. is negotiating to acquire NYMA Inc. a former 8(a) company based in Greenbelt Md. A source close to Federal Data a Bethesda Md. integrator said the company's discussions with NYMA are "moving along " and an agreem
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