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NLM awards $42M in research grants
The National Library of Medicine has injected $42 million into telemedicine research awarding 19 contracts this month to vendors who will demonstrate the possibilities and pitfalls of using highspeed telecommunications networks to transmit medical information in reallifesituations. The awards par
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Customs spearheads move toward automated trade
The Customs Service working with more than 50 other federal agencies and hundreds of private companies this month installed a prototype of a system designed to speed up trade by merging data needed for the import and export of products into a single system. The system dubbed the North American Trad
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CA, Cheyenne join software ops
Systems management vendor Computer Associates International Inc. added storage security and communications products to its portfolio with the acquisition earlier this month of software vendor Cheyenne Software Inc. In a deal valued at $1.2 billion CA has offered to purchase all outstanding shares o
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Cray eyes new DOE performance levels
Cray Research Inc. last week won a $110 million contract with the Energy Department's Los Alamos National Laboratory to build the world's fastest supercomputer to simulate underground nuclear testing. Cray's fouryear contract is the third award under DOE's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiativ
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How should ambiguous contract language be interpreted?
A reader asked the following question: Sometimes during the performance of a contract it becomes clear that one or more of the contract terms is ambiguous as to the parties' respective rights and obligations. How are ambiguities of this sort resolved? Are there general rules that the parties can ap
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Navy awards BPAs worth $90 million
The Naval Information Systems Management Center has awarded four broad purchase agreements worth a total of $90 million for up to 23 500 desktop PCs and servers. NISMC tapped AmeriData Federal Systems Inc. Digital Equipment Corp. Government Technology Services Inc. and McBride & Associates for the
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FAA mulls Corn pact's recompete
The Federal Aviation Administration has taken the first step to recompete the $508 million Computer Resources Nucleus (Corn) contract an outsourcing pact awarded to Electronic Data Systems Corp. in 1992. The FAA recently released an initial screening information request (SIR) through which the FAA
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Manager forecasts AWIPS success
Mary Glackin modernization systems manager at the National Weather Service remembers heading home as a child from the New Jersey shore with her family caught in the middle of a hurricane that had hit without much warning. That event appears to have been a defining moment for a woman whose career ha
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Companies competing for FAS4T
The Administrative Office of the U.S Courts (AOUSC) this month chose Computer Data Solutions Inc.'s Business Applications Solutions Co. and American Management Systems to compete for the right to provide financial management system software in a procurement potentially worth about $20 million over
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AWARDS
CACIIMS Services Inc. A $28.2 million award for records management support services. Justice Department Procurement Services Staff National Place Suite 1000 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20530. Computech Inc. $25.7 million for automated commercial systems development and maintenance
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Treasury ponders opening TDA program to other agencies
The Treasury Department may join the growing list of agencies that have opened their technology contracts to the rest of the government if it decides to expand access to three officeautomation contracts early next year. The Internal Revenue Service which runs the Treasury Department Acquisition pr
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Paige prods Lockheed Martin to integrate key C3I systems
When executives of Lockheed Corp. and MartinMarietta Corp. proposed a merger they touted the ability of the combined company to deliver economies of scale as well as systems synergy to the Defense Department. Now top Pentagon command and control officials have told the combined Lockheed Martin Cor
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Market grows for technical document management
The federal technical document management market is moving ahead solidly as agencies work to handle more of their technical and engineering information in electronic format.Technical document management is a segment of the imaging market that focuses on documents such as engineering drawings bluepr
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Intercepts
* Room at the top? The Interceptor is picking up mediumstrength signals that no matter the outcome of the election top Pentagon management plans to hit the road by the end of the year. This includes Defense Secretary William Perry and Paul Kaminski the technology and acquisition czar. Also expecte
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FEDERAL BYTES
Thompson retirement watch The General Services Administration's chief information officer Joe Thompson caught our attention this month as he began his speech at the Industry Advisory Council conference in Richmond Va. Thompson opened with a notsosubtle allusion to his retirement plans. He reitera
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ROSTER
The Industry Advisory Council this month announced its government and industry award winners. On the government side IAC recognized Bruce McConnell chief of information policy at the Office of Management and Budget with a special award for outstanding leadership and achievement. Other special award
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FAA denies Wilcox protest
In the first major test of its selfstyled Acquisition Management System (AMS) the Federal Aviation Administration this month denied a protest filed by Wilcox Electric Inc. against the award of a contract to Hughes Aircraft Co. for development of a satellite navigation system. The protest stems fro
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FEDWIRE
Kantor delays AWIPS decision C ommerce Secretary Mickey Kantor deferred his decision on whether to deploy the National Weather Service's Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System nationwide to give the agency time to address language in the appropriations bill and provide more information on i
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Finding a better way to eliminate bulky MAS requirements
On Sept. 4 the General Services Administration proposed revisions to its earlier interim rule amending the GSA Regulation (GSAR) on acquiring commercial items. The proposed changes served to implement portions of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act and related Federal Acquisition Regulation ch
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