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Massachusetts Uses Radnet Software for IT Administration
Massachusetts Uses Radnet Software for IT Administration
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Mapping moves toward Internet
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency has begun working on a project that during the next four years will seek to deliver more maps over the Internet. Under the $21 million Data Architecture and Gateway Services (DAGS) project awarded to Harris Corp. last month NIMA plans to produce fewer CDROM
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Profile Hits the Mark
Congratulations! Bob Brewin's Dec. 2 profile of Air Force 2nd Lt. Chad Lynch was perfect...right person right words right focus. We read a lot about the silverhaired technology warriors out there who have done great things and certainly deserve every plaudit. But it's all too uncommon to see a ris
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NASA Mac users resist the switch
Organizations resist change so it is no surprise that parts of NASA's Johnson Space Center are resisting the move to a desktop standard based on an Intel/Microsoft platform. Although the objections have focused on process the disagreements go far beyond process to the deeply held beliefs of many Ma
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FEDWIRE
Preston to leave DOD C olleen Preston the Defense Department's deputy undersecretary for acquisition reform during most of the Clinton administration resigned unexpectedly Thursday after nearly four years in office. "She indicated she felt the time was right to take a break from the challenge of o
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Apple takes dual OS approach
Apple Computer Inc. earlier this month said it will continue to support its current operating system while developing a new operating system based upon Next Software Inc. technology. Apple announced its strategy at the Macworld conference in San Francisco. The company's current operating system Mac
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USPS to spend millions to improve mail sorting
The U.S. Postal Service plans to spend millions of dollars to upgrade machines that read handwritten addresses on envelopes to reduce the amount of human intervention in routing letters to appropriate post offices and save millions of dollars. USPS is improving the socalled Remote Computer Readers
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How does NAFTA apply to federal pacts?
A reader asked the following question: The Federal Acquisition Regulation allows offerors to supply items to the federal government that are 'substantially transformed' in Canada or Mexico as provided by the North American Free Trade Agreement. However the regulation does not include any real expla
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Digital, Sysorex snag $1.5B VA pact
The Department of Veterans Affairs last week tapped Digital Equipment Corp. and Sysorex Information Systems Inc. to provide personal computers software and peripherals to VA hospitals and administrative offices nationwide under a $1.5 billion program. The VA plans to use the Procurement of Computer
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Skytel offers government nationwide paging service
Skytel Government is offering federal users nationwide paging services following an agreement with the General Services Administration earlier this month that extends the scope of Skytel's contract with the agency. Kathy Garrett chief of telecommunications acquisition at GSA's Greater Southwest Reg
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Integrators keep in step with new buying practices
Over the last several weeks four of the biggest information technology contractors in the federal market have moved to refine their business structures to respond to recent changes in how agencies are buying goods and services. Boeing Information Services Computer Sciences Corp. Electronic Data Sys
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Agencies urged to accept orders from state, local buyers
Anticipating that the General Services Administration will soon open its multipleaward schedules to state and local governments vendors are urging federal agencies that sponsor other governmentwide contracts also to accept orders from lowerlevel governments. At least a few agencies are considerin
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DOD opens PC contracts
Reflecting the new competitive environment of federal information technology procurement the Defense Department last month reversed its personal computer procurement policy and opened ordering on all of its PC contracts to any military service. DOD officials predicted that the Army's PC2 and Porta
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Intercepts
The hawk and dove. That about sums up the leading candidates to replace Emmett Paige as ASD/C3I. Owen Wormser a retired Air Force fighter pilot and head of a small Alexandria Va.based company called Command and Consulting Inc. has mounted an allout campaign for the job. Wormser who said "I have
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SSG, vendors eye ordering off Net
The Air Force Standard Systems Group (SSG) and its contractors anticipate speeding up orders and possibly payment by using Internetbased electronic commerce for the Desktop V PC contract this year. How much electronic ordering and credit card payment will be used for Desktop V a $1 billion contrac
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AWARDS
Information Dynamics Inc. A $99 million award for videoconferencing library services graphics publications administrative services printing mail TV operations photo processing and archiving. NASA Johnson Space Center Houston Texas 77058. Intermetrics Inc. A $33 million award for independent verifi
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Hardware, software sellers pursue Intel MMX business
Hardware and software vendors are lining up behind Intel Corp. and its MMX multimedia technology announcing products that will arrive on federal contracts during the next few weeks.Intel two weeks ago announced its Pentium processor with MMX technology which aims to boost the performance of multime
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MSPB issues report about minorities in government
At a time of great political debate as to whether government affirmativeaction programs should continue, the Merit Systems Protection Board has issued a report on the status of minority employment by the federal government. The MSPB interpreted the provisions of the Civil Service Reform Act of 197
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Agencies scan biometrics for potential applications
The concept of biometrics linking a person's identity to a fingerprint or other physical feature that is digitized and stored on a computer has been around for years but it has been associated most closely with law enforcement applications. That is changing.
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