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Don't count on MSPB for protection
As a federal employee you have to stand up for your job rights. Otherwise don't be surprised if you are not treated fairly. Nancy Manley an Air Force employee demoted because of an unfavorable and apparently unfair performance evaluation in July 1993 learned that the hard way. Formerly a GM14 and
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AWARDS
CACI International Inc. A $14.7 million award for logistics support facility operations and maintenance services for the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek Va. Remtech Services Inc. A $127 321 award for mainframe
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California dreamin'.
My Orange County antenna site has picked up mediumstrength signals that Deborah Castleman would like to replace Emmett Paige Jr. as ASD/C3I. Castleman served as a DASD/C3I to Paige before resigning to help design and develop an electric car. Now I hear she's charged up by the results of the last e
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Listings highlight `plum' positions
If you think the transition to the second Clinton administration and its attendant personnel shuffling makes this a good time to try a career move check out the new "Policy and Supporting Positions" listing better known as the "plum book." This quadrennial summary of political and other nonco
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MCI promotes local service
Representatives from MCI said they met last month with about 50 federal telecommunications managers to encourage them to consider the company as a localservice provider able to compete for contracts traditionally held by regional Bell operating companies. Jerry Edgerton vice president of MCI's Go
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FBI declares IAFIS costs, schedule are under control
The FBI is expected to submit a report to Congress this week indicating that the cost and development of its massive fingerprint identification system are under control after reporting sharp budget overruns and delays earlier this year.
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Wynd, IDP put wireless e-mail on agency pacts
Wynd Communications Corp. is working with International Data Products Corp. to bring wireless electronic mail technology to portable PC procurements. Wynd late last month announced that its WyndMail wireless email solution is available with the purchase of any IDP portable computer. IDP portables
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Guidelines seen as core to Web policy
The World Wide Web Federal Consortium has published a revised set of homepage guidelines that could make up the core of the eagerly anticipated agencywide Web policy being formulated by the Office of Management and Budget.
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IRS, Customs look for common HR system
The Internal Revenue Service and the Customs Service are exploring whether they can integrate their multiple human resources systems into one platform using commercial offtheshelf technology.
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USDA: Putting plans in place
Some of our readers may have a sense of dé jà vu when reading about the latest freeze on large computer purchases at the Agriculture Department. Congress the General Accounting Office and various agency executives have been trying for years to bring this farflung agency's buying under
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Air Force taps uncommon officer
As a rule second lieutenants don't end up in charge of much of anything especially projects visible to anyone higher than a major. But the Air Force Standard Systems Group (SSG) tapped 2nd Lt. Chad Lynch to run its most visible event of the year: the annual Air Force Information Technology (AFIT)
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Netscape to provide federal workers with Fortezza support
Pending final government approval Netscape Communications Corp. plans this week to begin allowing any federal government electronic mail user to download and test its Navigator browser that supports Fortezza cards. This initial evaluation will give any federal employee whose email address is denot
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Mail carriers prep to go wireless
In an ongoing effort to make it more competitive with private carriers the U.S. Postal Service plans to improve its mail tracking and tracing capabilities and delivery performance through two wireless pacts that could top $1 billion. The first procurement estimated to be about $500 million will all
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Who can intervene in a GAO protest?
A vendor raised the following issue: Our company participates in numerous government procurements. Sometimes one or more companies will file a bid protest at the General Accounting Office. Can we intervene in a protest that involves a procurement in which we participated? To what extent can a vend
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FEDERAL BYTES
No nukes.com Glenn Schlarman policy analyst with the Office of Management and Budget's Information Policy and Technology Division generated a healthy guffaw at a recent meeting of Federal Webmasters. Schlarman was speaking about the need for federal Web site addresses to be more specific to aid the
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LETTERS
Congratulations to your correspondent Bureaucratus on his prescience in his Nov. 11 column. I am the Michael J. Barry whose case is described in the article. The summary is concise accurate and wellwritten. His prescience is noted in the concluding paragraphs. The Department of Housing and Urban D
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Overhaul of blue pages to help users
The General Services Administration is moving closer to updating government listings in all local telephone books around the country in an effort that should make populating the X.500 governmentwide directory blue pages faster and easier. The goal of the blue pages project is to provide a more user
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Scalable architectures give supercomputing new life
The end of the Cold War was seen by many as the beginning of the end of the supercomputer in the federal government but that has not been the case. Instead sparked by new challenges associated with the end of the nuclear arms race and increasingly complex military confrontations such as the Persian
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INDUSTRY WATCH
IBM offers new gear on SEWP II I BM Corp. recently detailed its offerings on the network data server portion of NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation II procurement. In October NASA selected nine contractors for its $1.8 billion SEWP II program the sequel to the popular SEWP contract.
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