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AWARDS
Sparta Inc. A $20.2 million award for scientific engineering and technical assistance support services for the Theater Missile Defense Organization. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization 1725 Jefferson Davis Highway Suite 1200 Arlington Va. 22202. Anteon Corp. A $12 million award order under the G
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Dell ships midrange server
Dell Computer Corp. last week announced availability of its PowerEdge 4100 a midrange server powered by Intel Corp. Pentium Pro processors. The PowerEdge 4100 ships in single and dualprocessor Pentium Pro configurations at speeds of 180 MHz or 200 MHz. An entrylevel configuration with a single 1
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FEDWIRE
NASA cancels two contracts B udget constraints recently forced NASA to nix the $70 million HighSpeed Processor 4 contract at the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Md. The engineering support pact was to be used principally for the simulation of vehicles in flight. NASA also canceled Goddard's
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Raptor captures its largest firewall deal
Raptor Systems Inc. has landed its largest federal deal ever a $1.7 million sale to the Air National Guard to install firewall systems at 96 sites nationwide. The Guard will use Raptor's Eagle 4.0 firewall to protect the internal networks of all of its flying units. The Guard purchased the firewall
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ROSTER
Charles Engle director of the Ada Joint Program Office at the Defense Information Systems Agency is resigning this month to join a subsidiary of Ericsson Inc. as vice president of the company's North American operations. Quality Laboratories specializes in a software engineering methodology known a
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Federal 100: Pivotal players
Forms to nominate individuals for this year's Federal 100 awards appear in this issue. This is the eighth year this newspaper has sponsored the program which is designed to recognize those people in government and industry who have played pivotal roles in the federal world of information technology
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RFP seeks GIS integration
The Open GIS Consortium Inc. a nonprofit group working to establish industry and governmentwide geographic information systems standards is calling for vendors to propose how to tie together disparate GIS systems. The organization issued a request for proposals earlier this year and expects vendor
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Federal Agencies Push into Intranets
Intranets employ the fundamental technologies of the Internet to meet an organization's internal information needs while keeping data safe from Internetrelated security risks. They are gaining in popularity because they are inexpensive to build and take advantage of what many organizations already
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GSA brokers AT&T, IRS deal
The General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications Service late last week brokered a deal between the Internal Revenue Service and AT&T to ensure that the company will correct problems encountered in switching the Treasury Department's FTS 2000 network traffic from Sprint to AT&T. Joh
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Court rules that HUD forced employee to retire
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently gave the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) a lesson in legal procedures. The case involved a 37year veteran of federal service who objected to his reassignment to the Fort Worth Texas regional offices of the Department of Housing and U
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U.S. sitting duck, DOD panel predicts
The dependence of the United States on computers and communications systems to run its critical power finance and transportation systems places the country at risk in the event of an information warfare (IW) attack according to a report prepared by a toplevel Defense Department advisory panel. Thi
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Bay pursues GSA sked
For the first time in many years Bay Networks will hold its own General Services Administration schedule and will appoint and manage agents to sell the company's products to government users. Bay's new GSA schedule program will help the company increase its schedule revenue and take advantage of wh
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Sun, EPS team to offer Java-based mail forms
The U.S. Postal Service announced last month that it will work with Sun Microsystems Inc. and Enterprise Productivity Systems Inc. to develop a series of Javabased applications for electronic forms that should save USPS time and money. Under the agreement EPS will make available on USPS' Internet
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How much documentation is needed to back a contract award?
A government official raised the following issue: When our agency conducts a competitive acquisition the contracting office typically requires those involved to keep fairly detailed records usually in a prescribed format. Some of us think that the procurement process could be streamlined if we didn
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Treasury faults AT&T over 800 service
The Treasury Department is so dissatisfied with AT&T's 800 service under FTS 2000 that it does not want to use the AT&T network for the Internal Revenue Service if problems cannot be resolved before taxfiling season. The IRS has run into difficulties with reporting systems that collect information
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Army outfit keeps water data flowing
While you might not need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows a hydrologist comes in mighty handy when an entire armored division is planning to cross a river using nothing but pontoon bridges. That's what the 1st Armored Division commanders in Bosnia now have access to thanks to a World W
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Federal telecom game: Players, rules in constant motion
Things change quickly in the federal telecommunications marketplace. The players the rules the entire game have transformed into a new sport. Those who master the new competitive environment will be tomorrow's winners. In today's federal telecommunications market even the most entrenched incumb
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Motorola takes Air Force contract worth $263.7M
Motorola Space and Systems Technology Group won the $263.7 million Air Force Theater Deployable Communications (TDC) Integrated Communications Access Packages Program contract late last month. Motorola bested both GTE Corp. and Harris Corp. for the key program which is designed to upgrade communica
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Good news for workers on leave without pay
Late this summer the Office of Personnel Management issued a regulation pertaining to employees who go on leave without pay (LWOP) or whose pay is insufficient to cover their Federal Employee Health Benefit (FEHB) premium payments. This regulation was designed to ensure that affected federal employ
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