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OMB-led effort would offer single format for companies
The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee recently passed legislation that would require the Office of Management and Budget to appoint a committee of industry and government representatives to establish standards for data reported to multiple agencies by private companies. Rep. Steven Ho
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Editorial
The decision by the Defense Information Systems Agency to move ahead with the systems integration contract on its nextgeneration network acquisition in spite of a protest is only the latest example of what critics charge is a pervasive Defense Department attitude. Many DOD officials really believe
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Cray alleges dumping following $35M award to NEC
Cray Research Inc. last week accused Japan's NEC Corp. of dumping supercomputers in the United States as a result of its winning a fiveyear, $35 million deal to supply the highend machines to the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Cray asked that both the Commerce Department and the Intern
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NASA executive keeps mission operations flying high
Dolly Perkins sits in her office and quietly describes the electric feeling of suspense that envelops NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center during a launch. Walking down the hall, 'you can feel people are very intent,' Perkins said. 'They can be very anxious. If you're in the control room, there's ten
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Rapid Battlefield Visualization tops list of ACTD projects
The Pentagon unveiled its Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) candidates for fiscal 1997, with information technologies for the battlefield leading the list of programs that could make it from development to the field in the near future. Many of these initiatives are part of an overall
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Agencies seek to harness the power of distributed print
Distributed print services play a key role in getting federal client/server systems to run smoothly in heterogeneous environments, and for organizations that put effort into properly managing them, it is an area that can pay large dividends. Electronic distribution to networked printers can drastic
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Post-FTS 2000 to be delayed
The $20 billion PostFTS 2000 telecommunications services solicitation will not be released next week as planned, and program officials are scrambling to quiet the fears of Congress that the procurement will not take advantage of the changing telecom marketplace. Members of committees on both sides
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AWARDS
Sherikon Inc. A $25 million contract for advisory and assistance services. Army Medical Command, Attn: MCAA CA, Building 2015, 1105 Beebe Loop, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234. Computer Sciences Corp. A $9.03 million face value increase to a fixedprice incentive contract to provide software for the
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GITS Board to take over predecessor's activities
The newly created Government Information Technology Services Board would continue the work of its predecessor, the GITS Working Group, as a facilitator of IT programs that aim to make government more efficient and accessible to the public, according to a recent status report issued by the working g
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Layoffs ahead for TSM workers
The Internal Revenue Service last week confirmed that it would lay off 2,000 or more employees who are working on Tax Systems Modernization to comply with budget legislation pending in Congress. The decision, which was not publicly announced, has been expected because both House and Senate versions
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Deadbeats
Perhaps the most lengthy notice we've ever seen published in the Commerce Business Daily appeared on July 23. The notice listed dozens of contracting offices that will not be allowed to publish notices in CBD until they pay their overdue bills for April's CBD printing fees. Although CBD provided fr
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Caere eases publishing of forms on the Internet
Caere Corp. last month introduced OmniForm Internet Publisher, which aims to ease the process of converting paper forms to electronic forms accessible via the Internet. OmniForm Internet Publisher scans paper forms and translates them into electronic forms that can be viewed, printed, filled out an
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Braun to head PRC Systems Intetration unit
Dick Braun has been promoted to senior vice president for PRC and head of the Systems Integration (SI) business unit. Braun will have full profit and loss and operational responsibility for the unit and will report directly to PRC president Len Pomata. Braun has been vice president for Government I
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PRC, Wisconsin-Madison joint venture offers image-oriented weather system
PRC and the University of WisconsinMadison Space Science and Engineering Center (UW SSEC) have teamed up to develop and sell an imageoriented weather system to government and commercial users. The system, called Advanced McIDAS (Man Computer Interactive Data Access System), is based upon PRC syst
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MCI wins $8M Army satcom pact for Kuwait
MCI Government Markets won an $8 million contract to provide advanced satellite communications services to the Army Central Command (ARCENT)Kuwait. The system will provide ARCENT with secure voice, data, videoconferencing and facsimile services through highspeed satellite links. MCI has installed
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Web is conduit for Flight 800 data
When The Washington Post wanted to do a story on the hightechnology gear used by the Navy to search for wreckage of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, it tapped into the Navy Public Affairs Library World Wide Web page at http://www.navy.mil/navpalib/.www/welcome/html. Cable News Network, the newly la
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Treasury on new tack with TMAC follow-on
General Services Administration multipleaward schedule vendors competing for the upcoming Treasury Distributed Processing Infrastructure (TDPI) procurement have until the end of this month to pitch their wares to the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS plans to award up to eight contracts to supply
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GSI lobs suit against $3B DISN contract
Government Systems Inc. took its challenge of a $3 billion Defense Department communications integration and support contract to a federal court in Illinois last week, a month after filing a similar protest with the General Accounting Office. GSI filed suit in federal district court in East St. Lou
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Intercepts
Pax DISN. AT&T has pulled off the platoons of guerrillastyle lobbyists who have fought a rearguard action on Capitol Hill for months against DISA's planned DISN architecture. The Interceptor is picking up strong signals from his K Street antenna site that Harry Goodall, the new AT&T defense veep,
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