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AWARDS
Systems Research and Applications. A $42 million award for information process technical support services. Defense Supply ServiceWashington Attn: Michelle Bailey 5200 Army Pentagon Washington D.C. 203105200.Fuentez Systems Concepts Inc. A $40 million contract to provide information resources mana
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AGENDA
NOVEMBER 5 8 MultiMedia Telecommunications Association's UNICOM '96: Driving the Convergence of Communications and Computing. Washington Convention Center. Washington D.C. Call (617) 4331650 Web www.comdex.com.67 IntraNetworking Summit '96. Washington Convention Center. Washington D.C. Call (508
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Bringing computers into the courtroom
If you think a federal judge who deals with highprofile cases involving terrorists and government skullduggery wouldn't have much of an interest in computers think again. Royce C. Lamberth U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia talks as enthusiastically about plans to build the courtroom
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FEDWIRE
Brubaker heads for private sector P aul Brubaker who spearheaded information technology management and acquisition reform for his boss Sen. William Cohen (RMaine) will become vice president of business development for Federal Data Corp. in December. Cohen will retire from Congress when his term en
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Presidential candidates use Web as forum for platforms
Despite Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole's bumble while plugging his World Wide Web page during the first presidential debate this month the Dole campaign's home page has been a popular stopover for those wishing to get more information on the former senator and his policy positions.Accordi
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Lotus nabs largest software acquisition under DMS
Lotus Development Corp. recently completed the largest software sale to date on the Defense Message System contract a 15 000seat purchase of the Notes DMS product by the Naval Supply Systems Command (Navsup). The acquisition was made under an earlybuy program introduced earlier this year by Loc
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SET-ASIDES
Electronic FOIA demands A gencies would be obligated to release documents to the public in electronic format if requested and make newly created public documents available online or by some other digital means under recently enacted amendments to the Freedom of Information Act. The Electronic FOIA
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CBD WATCH
Library of Congress. C onnection to the Internet. Sol. RFP972. (CBD Oct. 9) The Library of Congress requires a connection to the National Science Foundation Internet. The purpose of this connection is to perform remote login file transfer and electronicmail communications with academic governmen
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AGENDA
OCTOBER 2 2 Second Annual Fiscal 1997 Civilian Agency Forecast: A Look at the Opportunities Trends and Challenges Facing the IT Community in Fiscal 1997 and Beyond. Tower Club. McLean Va.Call Pam Barkley at (703) 8277080.2224 Federal Imaging '96. Washington Convention Center. Washington D.C.This
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NIH pacts offer goods via DLA Internet mall
The National Institutes of Health next month will let agencies order products and services over the Internet from its three governmentwide contracts. The Defense Logistics Agency will be the first venue as the agency has agreed to give NIH a 'wing' in its forthcoming 'DLA electronic mall ' accordin
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Sysorex, BTG land PC-2 pacts
BTG Inc. and Sysorex Information Systems Inc. captured the Army's PC2 procurement for 133 000 highpowered Pentium PCs with what one industry source described as "astonishingly low prices for very advanced computers." Sysorex according to industry sources won with a bid of $217 million while BTG
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Digitized force may be held back from training until ready
Army Chief of Staff Dennis Reimer indicated last week that the Army may consider delaying training exercises for its brigadelevel digitized force that currently are slated for March and April 1997. Reimer speaking at a press conference at the start of last week's annual meeting of the Association
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FedCIRC emerges to halt leaks
To help stem an exploding number of computer security breaches the first governmentwide computer security response team begins offering this week services to civilian agencies. The Federal Computer Incident Response Capability (FedCIRC) part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology wi
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Netscape bids to dominate fed intranets
Netscape Communications Corp. which has dominated the federal browser market with its Navigator product has revamped both its browser and client/server products as part of a move to capture part of the blooming intranet market. The company's newest browser dubbed Communicator has integrated Naviga
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Bill creates new venue for protests
Congress this month passed an amended version of the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996 (H.R. 4194) that will allow vendors to take postaward protests to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in addition to established protest venues such as the district courts or the General Accounting Offi
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Outsourcing no place for politics
The Defense Science Board's recent report on outsourcing takes a nononsense approach to moving many Defense Department support activities to the private sector. This recommendation has a familiar ring to it for this is not the first time it has been suggested that good business practice mandated m
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INS jump-starts student mentoring program
The Immigration and Naturalization Service this month kicked off a new mentoring program to train high school students particularly those in underprivileged areas on computers. The agency also plans to make available next month a howto handbook for other federal agencies interested in starting suc
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Agencies still in need of better IT management
If a new report by the General Accounting Office is any indication federal agencies have a long way to go before they fully comply with new laws designed to improve management of their information technology investments. The report 'Information Technology Investment: Agencies Can Improve Cost and M
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Compaq unveils new midrange model
Compaq Computer Corp. this week will introduce the successor to its popular ProLiant 1500 network server a machine designed to offer new levels of performance and scalability for departmental network users. The ProLiant 2500 which runs on single or dual Pentium Pro 200 MHz processors will boost per
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