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DIA cools on Java; DISA keeps perking
Two key Defense agencies last week took opposite stands on the security threat posed by the use of the Java operating system developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. The Defense Intelligence Agency called for a temporary halt to its use while the Defense Information Systems Agency plans for Java to play
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Boeing lands B1-B systems overhaul
Boeing Co. won a $125 million contract last month to reequip the Cold Warera B1B bomber with a new generation of computer technology, in preparation for its future role as a conventional bomber. Boeing will install the new avionics system under a fiveyear Engineering and Manufacturing Developme
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RFP for COTS financial system hits the streets
As part of its highprofile effort to streamline and consolidate its hardware, software and network systems throughout the agency, NASA has released a request for proposals for its planned Integrated Financial Management Project. The RFP follows the agency's decision last year to dump the NASA Acco
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Report calls for CIOs' role in agencies' upper echelons
Agencies should emulate the private sector and make chief information officers part of an agency's inner executivemanagement circle if the government's push to establish a topexecutive position for information technology is to succeed, according to a draft report from the Industry Advisory Counci
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Wang wins $3 million U.S. Courts contract
Wang Federal Inc. last week captured a $3 million contract with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to provide jury database services to district courts. Under the fiveyear contract, Wang will create a central National Service Center to support the district courts. Potentially, all 94 dis
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The Air Force assigned Maj. Gen. Ronald Kadish, currently program director for the C17 Systems Program Office, to be the next director of the Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. Kadish will replace Lt. Gen. Charles Franklin, who started his Air Force career as an enlisted memb
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JULY
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Feds embrace network management but seek technical enhancements
Federal users are pushing for more standards and functionality in network management products as they grapple with multivendor environments and emerging technologies such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Federal users are real fans of network management technology more so than commercial or v
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HUD, DOJ use mapping for crime reduction
The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Institute of Justice plan to launch this summer a geographic information system (GIS) application designed to reduce crime in public housing projects. The Computer Mapping of Crime in Public Housing program will track emergency '911"
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Sun led fed RISC market in FY '95
Sun Microsystems Inc. dominated the federal market for reduced instructionset computing (RISC) workstations and servers in fiscal 1995, according to a new report, but the landscape could change dramatically given the recent spate of multipleaward hardware contracts. Sun topped Silicon Graphics In
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Deja vu - $3B DEIS II
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week awarded the fiveyear, $3 billion DEIS II program, which could become the largest systems integration contract ever, to the same six prime contractors who held the original Defense Enterprise Integration Services pact. The primes BDM Federal Inc.,
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Editorial
When reading about NIH's new Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners (CIOSP) program, we were reminded of the famous quote by a Russian general: 'Ever forward, but slowly.' With CIOSP, NIH plans to award between 12 and 15 contracts that will provide civilian agencies with a broad array of
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Parties clash over Web-links policy
Oldfashioned politics clashed with new technology on Capitol Hill last week as House Democrats challenged their Republican colleagues to overturn a new policy restricting World Wide Web links. At issue is a rule, approved by the House Oversight Committee in late May, that allows House committee me
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Census' DADS: A good idea, but let's not forget about print
The Census Bureau is busy inventing the next generation of delivery mechanisms for getting government information to the people. It's called the Data Access and Dissemination System (DADS), and it's intended to be the information distribution system to carry the agency into the 21st century. While
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Ready for some DISAwear. Those wonderful DISA enlisted folks who brought the world the muchprized DISA Christmas ornament have now come out with a clothing line, with sales dollars going to help families. Act now, and you could be the first on your block with a DISA Tshirt ($16.75), polo shirt
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Storage Technology Corp. A $5.9 million award for magnetic cartridge subsystems. Agriculture Department, Office of Operations, POD, Room 1547South Building, 14th Street and Independence Ave. S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250. MCI Telecommunications Corp. A $451,534 award for an Internet service provide
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GSI protests Boeing's $2B DISN services buy
Government Systems Inc. late last month lodged a protest against the Defense Information Systems Agency's $2 billion Defense Information Systems Network Support ServicesGlobal (DSSG) contract awarded to Boeing Information Services. GSI declined to provide any details about the protest, filed with
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Col. Walter L. McKnight has been named chief of the Air Force's software division in the Directorate of Architecture and Technology (AF SCT). McKnight reports to AF SCT director William James. Computer Sciences Corp. has named Thomas Robinson president of its Technology Management Group, responsib
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Donkey network Forget being an Olympic sponsor. Bay Networks Inc. has been named the "Official Local and Wide Area Network Provider" for the 1996 Democratic National Convention. Bay Networks designed and implemented the convention's data network infrastructure, which will connect computer systems
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