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Treasury pitches its e-mail to feds
The General Services Administration and the Treasury Department signed an agreement last month that will permit Treasury to offer messaging services for a fee to other agencies through its Treasury Communications System (TCS).
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10 Web sites take top honors for superlative NII offerings
Ten World Wide Web sites, including one government site, were chosen last month as winners of the 1996 National Information Infrastructure Awards.
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Lawyers group questions legality of GSA proposals
The American Bar Association last month submitted comments to the General Services Administration that question the legality of proposed changes to the multipleaward schedules (MAS) program such as removal of synopsis requirements and maximumorder limitations. Ron Hutchinson vice chairman of the
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Intel chip to speed multimedia apps
Intel Corp. this week rolls out its nextgeneration MMX microprocessor which is designed to speed up multimedia applications on Pentium and Pentium Probased computers. MMX hardware and applications vendors are already poised to infuse the federal market with the new technology. MMX improves the a
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Tektronix debuts dye sublimation printer
Tektronix Inc. today announced the availability of its Phaser 450 dye sublimation printer which the company is aiming at the federal scientific and engineering markets.
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Hackers' attack on AF blunted
Hackers successfully spoofed and replaced an Air Force World Wide Web page last week but Air Force and Pentagon officials emphasized that the attackers did not penetrate the main Web servers that support a number of other Defense Department Web sites. According to Capt. Terry Bowman the Air Force's
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AWARDS
Symbol Technologies Inc. A $100,000 award for handheld computers. FISC Norfolk Acquisition Group, Hampton Roads Detachment, 1968 Gilbert St., Suite 600, Norfolk, Va. 235113392. SMS Data Products Group Inc.
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SI Outlook
Nichols Research grows IT business Nichols Research Corp. continued its winning ways last month when it captured one of four information technology services contracts awarded by the Army's Space and Strategic Defense Command.
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Panel mulls change in federal role
A panel of public and private experts in geospatial processing began meeting last month to consider whether civilian agencies should cut back on geographic information programs and services funded by the federal government which are estimated to cost tens of millions of dollars a year. The group or
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American Indian tribes to get telecom services
The General Services Administration last month began offering FTS 2000 telecommunications services to American Indian tribal councils and organizations and announced its first agreement with a council to provide voice and data services via the governmentwide network.
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OPM must move fairly on early outs
In an attempt to minimize layoffs or demotions because of downsizing and restructuring at government agencies the Office of Personnel Management recently invited agencies to request authority for early outs for their workers. Congress also has passed governmentwide buyout authority a separate iss
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INDUSTRY WATCH
Navy awards workstation BPAs for Digital, HP, Sun wares A s expected, late last month the Navy established blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) for workstations and servers from Digital Equipment Corp., HewlettPackard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. The Tactical Advanced ComputerJoint Workstation BPA
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EDS collects Navy net services BPA
The Navy last week awarded a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to Electronic Data Systems Corp. to provide local and widearea networking services to installations and commands across the agency.
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Compaq on Portable-2
Your story on the Army Portable2 procurement, "Army trims field to four" [FCW, Dec. 16], carried the assertion that Compaq Computer Corp. was dropped from the competition prior to submitting a best and final offer. This is incorrect.
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HP debuts upgrade to popular machine
HewlettPackard Co. today unveiled its NetServer LD Pro, a model that succeeds its bestselling Intel Corp. based PC server in the federal market.
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FAA taps COMSAT for satellite comm
The Federal Aviation Administration late last month selected COMSAT Corp.'s Mobile Communications division to provide satellite communication services as part of the agency's Global Positioning System (GPS)based navigation programs.
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PRC wins $46 million DIA deal
The Defense Intelligence Agency last month awarded a $46 million contract to Litton/PRC Inc. to modernize databases and related applications across the intelligence community and to bring new database technology into the field. The intelligence community like other components of the Defense Departm
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The most valuable resource: people
The Los Angeles Times in December published a threepart special report on the state of the federal government's computer systems.
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NASA to outsource all desktops
NASA officials have begun planning for a massive agencywide desktop procurement that would eventually encompass all of the agency's 50,000 PCs. Although NASA chief information officer Ron West said it is too early in the planning process of the desktop initiative to place a value on the contract, h
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