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John Ortego former director of the General Services Administration's Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (Fedsim) has been designated acting deputy director of GSA's Information Technology Integration Division. As part of his new duties Ortego received an "interim special assignment'
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Top officials, 50 jobs axed at Zenith
Zenith Data Systems last week began a reorganization that eliminated 50 jobs and triggered the departure of longtime federal PC marketeers Tom Buchsbaum and Pat Gallagher. In the reorganization ZDS a division of Packard Bell NEC Inc. will focus exclusively on the federal state and local government
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Agenda
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Madge unveils multilayer switch
Madge Networks Inc. introduced today what the company said is the first multilayer switch that allows routing to be done entirely in hardware a feature that increases performance and reduces price.
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Lawsuit to decide if e-mail, files are rubbish or records
A coalition of publicinterest groups historians and researchers last month filed a lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration over a policy that allows agencies to destroy electronic mail and word processing files once they print out copies of those records. The complaint Pub
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Compaq introduces workgroup product
Compaq Computer Corp. today announced a workgroup server featuring Pentium Pro power and prices starting at less than $3 000. Compaq is positioning its ProLiant 800 as the entrylevel product in its ProLiant server line. While the company's ProLiant 2500 and 5000 servers target departmental and ent
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Pacom's Shea tackles tri-service comm challenges
HONOLULU It is no surprise that the Pacific Command (Pacom) the military organization that manages land sea and air forces with responsibility for 100 million square miles of the Earth's surface would require extremely reliable and effective communications. That explains why Col. Robert Shea dire
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EMC revamps Symmetrix product line
EMC Corp. last week revamped its Symmetrix line of storage systems with six new models of mainframe and opensystems products featuring new disk drives and other components that improve capacity and performance compared with the company's current systems. The new lineup of integrated cache disk arr
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Keyfile integrates Keyflow into Microsoft Exchange
Keyfile Corp. has shipped a new software product called Keyflow that enables users of Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange groupware to incorporate automated workflow into their applications.Keyfile which has sold its flagship Keyfile workflow package mainly to customers in the Defense and Agriculture depart
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Proposals may create IT burden
Longawaited proposals released this month to shore up the Social Security program would require the federal government to invest possibly billions of dollars in a computer system to monitor the investments. The Advisory Council on Social Security a 13member panel that was scheduled to report a ye
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SET-ASIDES
GAO turns back UPS complaint The General Accounting Office this month ruled against the second protest of a $625 million Air Force contract for uninterruptible power supplies and other equipment. The Air Force awarded the initial contract in June 1995 to Exide Electronics Inc. Raleigh N.C. After a
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Raytheon wins auction for Hughes Aircraft
Raytheon Co. last week came away the winner of a $9.5 billion bidding war for Hughes Aircraft Co. a division of Hughes Electronics Corp. In outbidding Northrop Grumman Corp. the sole competing bidder in the last week of negotiations Raytheon will pick up a full cache of federal business even beyond
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FDC wins $55M CERTAN contract
The National Institutes of Health has chosen FDC Technologies Inc. Bethesda Md. for a $55 million contract to upgrade and replace mainframes for the agency. The award made in midDecember is the second of four procurements planned under Project CERTAN (Computer Equipment Resources and Technology Ac
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Fedwire
IRS imaging system costs may double The General Accounting Office said last month that an imaging system run by the Internal Revenue Service may cost more than double what was expected and is not being used as originally planned. GAO said the agency had largely overcome the technical problems that
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Apple gains tech, agency customers in Next deal
With its acquisition of Next Software Inc. Apple Computer Inc. will be gaining more than a source of operating system technology the company also will inherit Next's blooming federal division which has doubled revenue in the past year with a bevy of agency customers.
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How does 'U.S.-made' differ from 'domestic'?
A reader asked the following question: In most U.S. government acquisitions, vendors are required to identify the countries of origin of the products they offer. Often, these acquisitions provide preferential treatment for items that originate in the United States. However, at least two different
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Key IT personnel change on Hill
In the wake of new committee leadership several Hill committees began their biennial staff shuffling reflecting new and evolving agendas of the chairmen. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee last month changed key personnel in procurement reform and information technology oversight a move obse
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Agencies measure own performance
Federal agencies many for the first time have begun to measure how well their procurement offices perform and the results are expected to affect agency budget requests during the next two years. The measurement effort is part of the government's plan to carry out the Government Performance and Resu
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Federal Bytes
Phantom viruses David Carter of Michigan State University and Andra Katz of Wichita State University, writing in the December issue of the FBI's "Law and Enforcement Bulletin," detailed the dangers of several computer viruses named after politicians, celebrities or famous institutions. But there'
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