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GSA plans to open WITS to multiple contractors
The General Services Administration plans to negotiate with about a halfdozen telecommunications vendors to offer fast packet service Internet access Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and other services on the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WITS) network in the national capital r
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Symantec, CyberMedia unwrap utility offerings
Symantec Corp. and CyberMedia Inc. are targeting the federal market with tools designed to help organizations manage their PC networks. Symantec Cupertino Calif. today announced the availability of Norton Administrator Suite Premier Edition a product that aims to corral large heterogeneous PC net
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Exhibition showcases warfighter IT links
FORT BRAGG N.C. Three weeks ago Capt. Ronald Lewis a helicopter pilot with the 82nd Airborne Division Aviation Brigade temporarily traded in the cyclic controller of his Kiowa Warrior helicopter for a mouse hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc. workstation. Since then he has tested the ability of
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INDUSTRY WATCH
TriTeal adds features TriTeal Corp. has extended the capabilities of the TriTeal Enterprise Desktop its standardsbased graphical user interface to support the Netscape and Microsoft Windows NT environments. Both TED 4.1 and NTED are based upon the Common Desktop Environment a graphical interface s
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FAA: Learning the hard way
The Federal Aviation Administration's decision to scale back its program for modernizing air traffic control over the oceans because of budget pressures should raise a red flag for all federal agencies which are now planning for fiscal 1998. While it is common enough for Congress to cut funding for
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Private practices not always best practices
The General Accounting Office recently weighed in on the Travel Reform and Savings Act (H.R. 3637) currently before Congress calling it an attempt to employ the socalled best of 'private sector travel practices' to the federal government. I really get a kick out of GAO's embrace of private sector
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GAO: Culture slows IT overhaul
Deepseated acquisition 'culture' problems still threaten the Federal Aviation Administration's modernization programs despite recent major changes in the agency's procurement organization according to the General Accounting Office. In a report titled "Aviation Acquisition: A Comprehensive Strateg
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NTIS handles GSA documents
The Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service (NTIS) now manages and disseminates a collection of guides and documents from the General Services Administration's Office of Governmentwide Policy. Documents from the information technology and capital planning section collections ar
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AGENDA
SEPTEMBER 36 Information Resources Management Conference '96. Hershey Hotel and Conference Center. Hershey Pa. Call Betty Moore at (202) 5014298 fax (202) 5013805 email betty.moore@gsa.gov. 46 Information Warfare: Conference on Electronic Civil Defense. Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel. Arlingto
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FGIPC formsint'l panel onsecure services
The Federation of Government Information Processing Councils (FGIPC) is creating an advisory council made up of officials from federal state local and foreign governments to focus on promoting secure electronic information exchange between different levels of government and U.S. citizens. FGIPC pre
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Commerce to probe dumping claims; NSF pact put on hold
The National Science Foundation stalled a $35 million supercomputer buy last week following the Commerce Department's decision to investigate allegations that Japan's NEC Corp. is dumping supercomputers in the United States. 'It would be inappropriate for NSF to approve this procurement until the d
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California firm projects agencies into 3-D Worlds
Worlds Inc. is helping the U.S. Information Agency and the National Park Service develop online 3D environments designed to make searching for information electronically a little more like visiting a library or touring a park. Worlds San Francisco specializes in the field of multiuser networked v
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Army pacts offer low-end bargains
With the yearend buying season in full swing there's good news for shoppers seeking lowend PCs and notebooks. Vendors have upgraded their entrylevel models and in some cases are offering them at the same or lower prices. Recent industry price reductions on processors and memory are showing up on
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Webmasters advocate an open environment
Netscape Communications Corp. and Microsoft Corp. aim to compete for market share in World Wide Web browsers by emphasizing unique features of their particular products but that will not gain them any new federal fans. Government Webmasters see their job as making sure that the largest possible num
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Government should take advantage of outsourcing
Information technology is a late20th century supernova overwhelming the old and then rendering obsolete its own advancements. Technology opens new vistas creates opportunities and rewrites the rules about how to do business. A slide rule on my coffee table and an old portable typewriter bear mute
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JWID Web sites serve up hot tech for warfighters
Gadgets and gizmos galore that's what's promised at the annual Joint Warfare Interoperability Demonstration (JWID). If you can't make it this week to one of the JWID '96 sites then you can tap into JWID on the World Wide Web on a home page hosted by the Army at www.army.mil/jwid96.htm. Once on th
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Forum's new unit to promote tech to all levels of government
The Smart Card Forum a prominent U.S. smart card technology trade group is forming a unit to promote the technology to federal state and local agencies. Michael Smith general manager for operations with Schlumberger Danyl Moorestown N.J. and a Smart Card Forum board member said the unit will provid
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R&D pacts to supportsearch andretrieval
The Patent and Trademark Office in conjunction with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded its firstever research and development contracts to help administer the complex patent process. Under the agreements which total $11 million the University of Massachusetts a
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GSA sets 2000 language
As the controversy about federal response to Year 2000 issues grows the General Services Administration is set to publish as early as this week contract language that could substantially ease the procurement of software and services to help fix the problem. GSA had proposed several earlier versions
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