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GSA does an about-face, reopens KC BOA channel
Bowing to pressure from a group of 8(a) vendors the General Services Administration plans to reopen the highly successful Basic Ordering Agreement program in the agency's Kansas City Mo. region and award as many as a dozen vendors sixmonth contracts worth up to $90 million each. Bob Woods commissi
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Four contractors win $100 million-plus Defense pacts
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service has awarded contracts estimated at more than $100 million to each of four vendors for software support and other technical services at DFAS' Financial Systems Organization (DFASFSO). Under the Defense Financial Integrated Systems Services (DFISS) program
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Language caps AWIPS spending
Congress has placed a cap of $525 million on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) and recommended that the Commerce Department delay a decision to deploy the system nationwide until it conducts more operational testing. In conf
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INDUSTRY WATCH
ITAA announces Y2K certification program The Information Technology Association of America last week took the wraps off a program that certifies vendors' approaches to Year 2000 date conversion. ITAA 2000 consists of a questionnaire that analyzes a vendor applicant's processes and methods in 11 are
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Exide wins $625 million Air Force contract
Exide Electronics Group Inc. late last month said it won an Air Force contract to provide up to $625 million worth of uninterruptible power systems (UPS) and other equipment to any military or civilian agency. The contract awarded by the Air Force's Air Logistics Center in Sacramento Calif. will ru
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GPS tracks shifting land masses
The satellitebased Global Positioning System (GPS) first developed by the Defense Department to provide highly accurate position and location information has evolved into a technology with many more civilian applications than military. Hikers consult $200 receivers to help them bushwhack across un
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PC-2 field cut to six bidders
Two vendors have been eliminated from the competition for the Army's $554.4 million PC2 buy and at least one protest may be in the making according to industry sources. Additionally Zenith Data Systems which recently ran into performance problems on the Air Force's Desktop V contract last week pul
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FAA, DOD see STARS with Raytheon
The Federal Aviation Administration last week awarded Raytheon Co. a contract potentially worth more than $1 billion to field internationally proven air traffic control technology at FAA and Defense Department facilities nationwide. The Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) progra
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INDUSTRY WATCH
NT common theme at Networld + Interop A TLANTA Of the hundreds of products unveiled or demonstrated at the Networld + Interop trade show here last week many had at least two letters in common: NT. Vendors have either embraced Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT or at least accepted the operating system
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Intercepts
Datadriven DISN. DISA has rescoped the size of DISN based upon a 100 percent surge in traffic over the past year most of it on the data side. Col. Marlin Forbes DISN PM said this reflects the 'phenomenal growth' of both NIPRNET and SIPRNET which host Internets and intranets and their related World
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AWARDS
VSE Corp. A $23.8 million award for engineering and technical support services. Navy FISC Norfolk Detachment Philadelphia 700 Robbins Ave. Building 2B Philadelphia Pa. 191115084. CDS Network Systems Inc. A $62 310 award for laptop computers. Navy Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Contracting Depa
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AT&T files tariff with FCC
AT&T has filed a tariff with the Federal Communications Commission for a set of international and domestic services geared toward the government that will compete with existing international contracts and potentially siphon some nonmandatory users from the FTS 2000 network.The new Government Worldw
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DISA plans $2B Pacific satellite network
Looking to girdle the Earth with a highspeed communications system the Defense Information Systems Agency last week kicked off a potential $2 billion procurement for a broadband network covering the Pacific and Indian oceans. The agency also said it planned to launch a similar procurement for Euro
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Industry faults rule on pricing, audits
Industry groups last week attacked the General Services Administration's proposed final rule for governing the multipleaward schedule program charging that GSA's language is not in keeping with the spirit of acquisition reform. GSA late last month issued the proposed final MAS rule as well as a se
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SAP America eyes fed market
SAP AG the fifthlargest independent software developer in the world has been virtually unknown in the U.S. federal sector. But this situation could be changing soon as the German software developer takes its first steps in the government market. The company's American arm SAP America Inc. earlier
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NTIA funds model Internet projects
The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration last week awarded $18.6 million in matching grants for technology projects designed to link rural communities and inner cities using the Internet and online services. Under the Telecommunications and Information I
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ICF, Cadmus win EPA support contracts
ICF Consulting Group and The Cadmus Group are gearing up to start work on companion contracts to help the Environmental Protection Agency expand its programs that promote energy efficiency. The contracts cover the upkeep of the information systems supporting the EPA's programs and the development o
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ROUND TWO
In the article 'Justice joins fray with ITSS award' [FCW Sept. 16] the company name Anteon Corp. was misspelled. We regret the error.
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Intellectual-property bill draws fire
A bill that would merge the Commerce Department's Patent and Trademark Office and the Library of Congress' Copyright Office into one organization faced opposition at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week. The Omnibus Patent Act of 1996 (S 1961) was introduced in July by Sen. Orrin Hatch (
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