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CGES expands its thrust into the federal market
Fresh from winning its biggest agency deal Comark Government & Education Sales Inc. is seeking to broaden its business in the federal market. In September CGES captured an estimated $50 million contract with the Census Bureau to supply notebook computers. The pact the largest indefinitedelivery in
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Lotus, Microsoft to lure feds with new 32-bit apps
The new generation of 32bit office application suites from Lotus Development Corp. and Microsoft Corp. featured prominently at the Comdex computer trade show this week will take the federal market by storm according to the vendors and their resellers. Lotus is using Comdex to introduce SmartSuite
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Contract award revisions
Agency officials vendors and lawyers lent their support this month to a sweeping overhaul of how the government awards negotiated contracts though they said some details of the proposed rewrite of Part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation should be reconsidered. Fred Gelden counsel to the Elec
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It's Ada vs. the commercial world - and the lady's still slugging
Although Ada the Defense Department's chosen programming language does not have the market sizzle of some commercial languages its widespread use in weapons systems and missioncritical programs feeds a steady market for development and support tools. Ada's dominance in weapons systems and in aircr
Acquisition
FBI buy may be bid to influence market
The FBI is negotiating with AT&T to purchase a security product that soon will have keyrecovery abilities sources said. Some observers consider the move an attempt to boost the market for encryption products that would make it easier for law enforcement agencies to access suspects' protected data.
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USS Belleau Wood assaults DOD Web site boilerplate
Charts graphs ponderous policy documents and photos of gear predominate on many a federal World Wide Web site especially in the Defense Department. Rarely does one find carefully crafted prose. But check out the home page of the USS Belleau Wood (www.c7f.yokipc.navy.mil/bwood.html) which offers up
Acquisition
It's official: GTE wins wireless pact
Capping off a 27month effort the General Services Administration this month awarded a $300 million nationwide contract for cellular telecommunications services a move designed to cut most federal users' cellular bills by up to 60 percent. The award is the first in a series of PostFTS 2000 contrac
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A balanced electronic civil defense
If we believe the scenario painted by the Defense Science Board in its recently completed report on the effects of information warfare on this country's infrastructure of power financial and transportation systems we are all in a precarious position.
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AWARDS
TROY Systems Inc. A $37.7 million award for information systems support services. Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Washington D.C. Columbia Services Group Inc. A $13.9 million award for information technology help desk and network support services. Transportation Department Federal Hig
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Execs upbeat that initiatives will continue in second Clinton term
President Clinton's second term in office spells stability and solid prospects for the information technology industry. That is the analysis of a number of systems integration executives interviewed recently. Clinton's reelection avoids the procurement dislocations that often come with a change in
People
DT V 8(a) protested; ZDS clears up backlog
The Air Force's recent selection of International Data Products Corp. as the apparent winner of the Desktop V smallbusiness contract has been met with a protest from Dynamic Decisions Inc. Rosslyn Va. Bob Hesser director of federal sales at DDI declined to provide any details of his company's prot
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DOD proposes new regulations
Senior Defense Department officials proposed this month new rules for modular contracting that would encourage agencies to consider problems they may encounter when building large information systems piece by piece according to a memo sent to the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council. Emmett Paige
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FEDERAL BYTES
Hysterical GAO testimony? The elections are over well at least some of them are. An online publication known as Crypt Newsletter began a vote this month via the Internet for the 1996 Computer Virus Hysteria Awards. The awards are based on the premise that the media and industry have been propaga
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Agencies fail to embrace incentives
Two years after enactment of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act federal agencies have not complied with provisions of the law that demand they offer performance incentives to their acquisition staffs according to a report by the General Accounting Office. Agencies have made more progress sett
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BC2S gets ATM technology boost
To cover the Defense Department's ongoing withdrawal of U.S. forces from Bosnia to Germany Pentagon communicators have upgraded the Bosnian Command and Control System (BC2S) to handle huge multigigabyte data files from platforms such as spy satellites and Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Air Forc
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Setting an agenda for the 2nd term
Despite the departure from Congress of several strong champions of procurement reform vendors and government managers believe that the new leaders of congressional oversight committees will continue on the path of the last several years and will push for agencies to adopt commercial business practi
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Signal, Garcia Consulting land $30M award to simplify patent process
The Patent and Trademark Office awarded last month a $30 million contract to Signal Corp. and Garcia Consulting Inc. to provide information research and system development support for patent examiners. Signal and Garcia Consulting will compete for task orders under the Information Research and Faci
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Report suggests DOD limit Ada use
The National Research Council has recommended that the Defense Department roll back its longstanding often unpopular mandate requiring the Ada programming language and reserve it for use only in weapons systems and other warfighting software. The recommendations are part of 'Ada and Beyond: Softwar
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