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Virtual Data Center Services may melt FAA's ICEMAN
The Federal Aviation Administration may drop plans for a new outsourcing contract in favor of purchasing services through the General Services Administration's recently awarded Virtual Data Center Services program. The FAA's current outsourcing pact Computer Resources Nucleus (Corn) will expire in
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Feds to test security of transactions
The General Services Administration this month kicks off a yearlong test of an encryption project that it hopes will eventually allow participants to conduct secure transactions with the government from personal computers or public kiosks.
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AT&T outbids GTE for DOD pact
It is hard to outdo a local telephone company in its own market but AT&T Government Markets did exactly that when it beat GTE Hawaiian Telephone Co. for a 10year contract to develop and operate an advanced digital network to serve 70 000 Defense Department users in Hawaii. Although billed by the D
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OMB mulls new limits
Six months after agencies were freed from restrictive federal buying rules government officials and vendors are seeking fresh guidelines for how to manage and make purchases from new multipleagency information technology contracts. Buyers and sellers say they want to preserve the choices agencies
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V-ONE launches its new federal division
VONE Corp. launched a federal division to hone its focus on the government security products market and solidify relationships with integrators. The Rockville Md.based company announced last week the formation of VONE Government Systems which will be headed by Ken Newcomer formerly director of b
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AWARDS
CACI Inc. A $22.5 million award for logistics and automated data processing support for ships to upgrade equipment. U.S. Atlantic Fleet Integrated Logistics Overhaul Activity Portsmouth Va. SRA International Inc. A $12.5 million task order to provide enterprise information systems software support
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GSA preps local service contracts
The General Services Administration last week announced an aggressive schedule for a series of late summer solicitations for governmentwide local telecom service contracts in New York Chicago and San Francisco. In addition GSA expects to issue requests for proposals for service in an additional 10
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FEDWIRE
Asset Forfeiture contract draft released T he Justice Department last week released a draft request for proposals for the recompete of its Asset Forfeiture Program Support contract. The $175 million contract which is held by DynCorp and will expire in June 1998 tracks property that numerous federal
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GSA virtual data center deal sparks agency interest
The General Services Administration's Virtual Data Center Services program awarded to three computer services firms last month has already attracted interest from a number of agencies [FCW Feb. 17]. The data center program offers data processing outsourcing services and is open to all federal agenc
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Microsoft and OGC
In the article 'Microsoft joins consortium' [FCW Feb. 3] I was quoted as saying that Microsoft's membership in the Open GIS Consortium may have come too late to determine the direction that OGC will take to set those standards. In fact Microsoft plays a significant role in establishing OGC's geopro
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Sysorex fires first salvo in potential price war
Sysorex Information Systems Inc. last month priced its entrylevel PC system offered on an Army contract at about half what competitors are charging for similar equipment on other governmentwide contracts. Analysts said this figure would set a new price floor for PCs in the federal market. On the A
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GTSI reports FY '96 loss
Government Technology Services Inc. reported a loss of $17.6 million for its 1996 fiscal year that company executives said was caused by onetime writeoffs. Chief executive officer Dendy Young said the writeoffs will allow the company to straighten up its balance sheet going into the new fiscal y
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ASC loses staff, gains power
FORT HUACHUCA Ariz. The Army's worldwide communications supplier will have lost more than half its peak strength of 40 000 civilian and military personnel by the end of fiscal 1998 but its commanding officer Maj. Gen. Charles Sutten believes this amounts to 'a move for the better.' The Army Signa
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DOD director revels `in the fray'
Over the last year or so Cynthia Rand has seen her life overrun by the Year 2000 problem the ClingerCohen Act and outsourcing issues. And she could not be happier. In her role as principal director for information management at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command Control C
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AT&T grabs third DISN award
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week completed the last in its initial series of acquisitions for the nextgeneration Defense Information Systems Network with the award of a $125 million video teleconferencing contract to AT&T Government Markets. The Defense Video ServicesGlobal (DVSG
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Web shows IT specs, reinvention ventures
The country's largest network of government and industrial standards went live last week providing online access to more than 70 000 development and manufacturing standards including a large chunk devoted to information technology standards for government and privatesector users. Don't expect
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DOD crafts rules for electronic records
The Defense Department has released a final draft version of functional requirements for recordsmanagement software that within months could become official DOD policy and a governmentwide standard requiring federal agencies to store official electronic files and electronic mail. The Feb. 14 draft
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Critics blast GSA's revised strategy
General Services Administration officials were roundly criticized last week by members of Congress industry and users of its telecommunications services for their revised acquisition strategy for purchasing telecom services after the current FTS 2000 contract expires. GSA issued last month a propos
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