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Outsourcing makes sense
In its latest report the Defense Science Board repeated a recommendation that the Defense Department get out of those lines of business that are not part of its core function and focus on operations that only it can perform warfighting for example. Outsourcing to the private sector duties such as
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Justice rethinks JCN, sets stage to test companies through pilots
The Justice Department has discarded the request for proposals for a $200 million nationwide highspeed telecommunications network pact in favor of buying services off an existing departmentwide contract. DOJ officials will delay the Justice Consolidated Network (JCN) contract up to 18 months so th
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Frank Lalley associate deputy assistant secretary for telecommunications at the Department of Veterans Affairs was appointed last week chairman of the Interagency Management Council. Lalley replaced former chairman Dave Bittenbender chief of telecommunications at the Justice Department who stepped
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Lack of detail prompts MSPB to overturn Navy dismissal
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has overruled the Navy reinstating an employee fired by the department for making racial slurs after determining that the Navy did not give the employee enough information to adequately defend himself. The employee Cecil Mason worked for the Navy as a motor
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Labs seek vendor input on ASCI project
Three national laboratories this month asked computer manufacturers and integrators to offer advice on how to structure a multimilliondollar project that will boost supercomputing speeds by 1 000 times what is now available. The Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories jointl
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Stagnant councils dissolved
In accordance with recommendations included in a strategic review completed late last year the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils has eliminated some of its inactive councils and will focus more of its efforts on state and local government issues. The FGIPC board of directors
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Proposed bill will force agencies to outsource
A bill introduced last week would require federal agencies to outsource nearly all activities that the Office of Management and Budget deems inappropriate for government agencies.The bill introduced by Sen. Craig Thomas (RWyo.) also would prohibit agencies from offering services to other agencies
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Systems integration and the IDIQ tooth fairy
I've reviewed the new laws and regulations laid out some hardearned money to listen to a few pundits read your recent columns and articles about how IDIQ and GSA schedule sales are growing and tried to reengineer my thinking about how to do business with the feds. I now know more than I care to a
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Lockheed Martin, CSC win PTO pact
Lockheed Martin Corp. and Computer Sciences Corp. last week captured the largest IT contract ever awarded at the Patent and Trademark Office the $541 million System Development and Maintenance (SDM) program which will provide system development and maintenance support services for the agency's mi
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Sylvest claims first TDPI pact
In the first of a series of awards the Treasury Department has selected Sylvest Management Systems Corp. to provide Unixbased workstations and servers under its Treasury Distributed Processing Infrastructure (TDPI) program the followon to the expiring Treasury Multiuser Acquisition Contract. The
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NASA cancels telecom contract NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has canceled its $100 million requirement for a commercial telecom services contract. The buy which was to have provided services equal to the existing Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Deep Space Network will be rolled into NASA's Consolid
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GAO Releases High-Risk List for 1997
The General Accounting Office last week issued its periodic series of reports on "highrisk" management problems facing the government. This year's series the third since 1992 tracks progress or the lack of it in 20 program areas and flags five new areas that GAO has concluded make the govern
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Web tracks budget bloat
Before reading the 2 384 pages that make up the fiscal 1998 Budget of the United States which President Clinton submitted to Congress this month drop in at the Bureau of the Public Debt home page (www.publicdebt.treas.gov) to put everything in perspective. The debtminders at Treasury have a tothe
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HUD pilot project takes bids on-line
The Department of Housing and Urban Development last year began a pilot project that requires all real estate brokers bidding on foreclosed HUD properties to submit bids via the Internet or telephone saving the department time and money. Under the online bid submission pilot which is being tested
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Eight to share JIEO pie
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week initiated the government's latest multipleaward services program awarding eight contracts under a $610 million deal to provide engineering services. DISA's Joint Interoperability and Engineering Organization Systems Engineering program was awarded t
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OMB, CIOs: Raines' rules require time
The Office of Management and Budget and agency chief information officers have concluded that they need more time to apply 'Raines' rules ' the set of criteria that OMB director Franklin Raines wants agencies to use to formulate their information technology budgets. At a meeting of the Chief Inform
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Maryland Child Support Contract Enables Quick Payment
Maryland Child Support Contract Enables Quick Payment
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Satellite director in proper orbit
Kathleen Kelly director of the Satellite Operations Control Center (SOCC) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wasn't in her job a week when she faced her first major challenge: a serious malfunction on one of the nation's weather satellites. Early last month a hardware failure on
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