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Rear Adm. Edward Kristensen, commander of Logistics Group Two, based in Norfolk, Va., was assigned coordinator of fleet support for Navy vessels supporting the search for and recovery of debris from TWA Flight 800. Kristensen will be aboard Landing Ship Dock51, USS Hill, operating off the coast o
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NEC's new desktops to lower admin costs
NEC Technologies Inc. is expected today to announce its latest PowerMate PCs, ranging from entrylevel Pentium systems to topoftheline Pentium Pro PCs and designed for lower lifecycle costs. The new PowerMate models the first new machines since the company merged its nonJapanese PC operation
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Hughes, ZDS detail portable wares
Hughes Data Systems Inc. and Zenith Data Systems unveiled their portable computer offerings on the Air Force Desktop V contract, as industry analysts and other vendors predicted a booming federal market for the goanywhere machines. Both companies kept the identity and configurations of their porta
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Editorial
What's the problem with GATEC? or many supporters of electronic commerce, it was very bad news that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) had reorganized and would be eliminating the organization that created and supported the Government Acquisition Through Electronic Commerce solution sele
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House panel backs on-line access
The House Rules Committee is supporting a resolution sponsored by Rep. Rick White (RWash.) that would require House committees to provide timely online access to hearing transcripts, bills, amendments, votes, rules and other information via the Internet. At a committee hearing last week, White sa
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High tech aids search for answers
When TWA Flight 800 plunged into the ocean just 15 minutes out of John F. Kennedy International Airport, the USCGC Juniper, the first of a new generation of hightech Coast Guard cutters, took up a position at the crash site and coordinated the early stages of the searchandrecovery effort. Since
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GSA schedule sales up 30 percent
The summer of '96 is shaping up to be a hot one for vendors on the General Services Administration schedule. Scores for the first half of the fiscal year are in, and the verdict is that sales are running 33 percent ahead of last year's pace. According to International Data Corp. analyst Jan Morgan
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Search high-court cases or catch the buzz at the HIVE
You can read a selection of recent and past decisions of the Supreme Court on a World Wide Web service maintained by Cornell University at http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/supct.table.html. Visitors to the site especially those more fluent in legalese than in computer code will be relieved to f
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Compaq debuts network management software
Continuing its quest to become a leader in the internetworking market, Compaq Computer Corp. today announced new Netelligent networking products and a closer relationship with Cisco Systems Inc. The new products will be available on the General Services Administration schedule in August. Earlier th
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Informix, Netscape, BTG team on servers
BTG Inc., Informix Software Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp. have announced a strategic alliance to compete in a growing federal market for highpower Internet server solutions. The trio is assembling software packages for developing highcapacity World Wide Web sites that can store and serve
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Network operations center takes off
The Federal Aviation Administration unveiled this month the Enterprise Network Operation Center (ENOC), which will centralize network management chores for the FAA's nine regions and provide improved communication for employees. The ENOC will be manned by RMS Technologies and Digicon Corp., which w
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Rules seek to emulate private-sector planning
New budgeting guidelines issued by the Office of Management and Budget this month demand that agencies treat their information technology acquisitions more as private companies do as investments that contribute to the bottom line. Revisions to OMB Circular A11, Part 3, "Planning, Budgeting and
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Mapping standards for cooperation
When John Moeller talks about geographic information systems (GIS), he sounds more like a poet or novelist than a scientist. 'When you get down to it, the thing that links all of us together and determines who we are is geography,' Moeller said. 'That's what holds communities together: the geograph
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AWARDS
CTA Inc. A $30.6 million award for ADP services. General Services Administration, Federal Supply Service, Room 507, 1941 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Va. SRA International Inc. A $21.9 million task order to provide localarea network/widearea network maintenance and systems engineering supp
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Visionary marries tech with AF mission
William C. James, director of architecture and technology for the Air Force and the designated technology visionary for his service, still identifies with Dilbert, the popular comic strip character generally seen as the epitome of nerdish software engineers. This stems from James' deep roots in the
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Contractors automate to manage DEIS II
Faced with managing mammoth teams and multiple task orders, Defense Enterprise Integration Services II contractors are taking a dose of their own medicine. Many of the contractors working on the $3 billion Defense Information Systems Agency program have developed systems to help manage task orders,
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Science agencies rally behind GPRA
Representatives from civilian science agencies that have begun implementing the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) said they believe the act will strengthen their research efforts, although they face hurdles integrating the act into the budget process. The civilian officials appeared ear
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CIOs lacking; OMB oversight questioned
With only three weeks to go before the Information Technology Management Reform Act (ITMRA) goes into effect, agencies have appointed too few qualified chief information officers and the Office of Management Budget appears illprepared to oversee implementation of the law, according to the General
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JWID '96 will spotlight switching, transmission
The Defense Department plans to use this year's Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (JWID '96) to harvest information technology "golden nuggets" that it can insert quickly into the battlefield, with advanced, highspeed switch and transmission technology topping the list. This is not a
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