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System tracks disease; links labs, health care centers
The National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) plans to use part of a $26 million boost in its fiscal 1997 budget to build a computer system to track emerging infectious diseases that are fatal and becoming resistant to modern drugs. The Clinton administration is lobbying strongly for what it c
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DISA releases RFP for services pact The Defense Information Systems Agency last Friday released the request for proposals for an estimated $610 million engineering services multipleaward pact. DISA's Joint Interoperability and Engineering Organization Systems Engineering contract includes compute
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NIH preps wide-scale imaging pact
The National Institutes of Health last week released a request for proposals for one of the largest imaging, document management and workflow contracts in government to date. NIH plans to make multiple awards by the end of this month for its ImageWorld contract, an estimated $100 million, fiveyear
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Congress questions IRM leadership
The Agriculture Department is again in trouble with Congress, which is questioning the leadership of technology programs at USDA and has asked the General Services Administration to suspend certain delegations of procurement authority (DPAs). In a letter to GSA last month, House Agriculture Committ
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Draft RFP out for DCS system
The Census Bureau late last month released a draft request for proposals (DRFP) for its imagebased Data Capture System (DCS) that changes the acquisition strategy for the system that will process forms for the 2000 census. Census now says it will make one award for the design, development, product
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Intergraph debuts NT machines
Intergraph Computer Systems, Huntsville, Ala., today will introduce a new generation of its Microsoft Corp. Windows NTbased TDZ 3D graphics workstations, which incorporate the vendor's new RealiZm 3D graphics accelerators. TDZ workstations are available with one (TDZ310), two (TDZ410) or four
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Round Two
In a table listing the 29 prequalified bidders for the National Institutes of Health's Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners project, Federal Computer Week incorrectly identified Systems Resources Inc. as a bidder. System Resources Corp. is expected to bid on the contract.
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FCC telemedicine committee makes debut
The Federal Communications Commission recently introduced its Telecommunications and Health Care Advisory Committee, which will provide guidance to the FCC on how to improve the telecommunications infrastructure to deliver telemedicine and other health care services to rural areas. Greg Lawler, com
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Census paves electronic paths
Take a test drive of the Census Bureau's new Electronic Subscription Service at http://www.census.gov/prod/www. Census' new service free for the next few months may pave the way for the Internet eventually to eclipse printed paper as Census' primary means for disseminating data to the public. A
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How does a company challenge small-business set-asides?
The following question was asked by a corporate official: We want to compete in a procurement that is currently restricted to small businesses. However, our company is not considered to be 'small.' How can we get the agency to open the procurement to all prospective offerors? It can be difficult to
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Child-support tracking draws fire
Federal and state governments have wasted billions of dollars in a 12year program to develop computer systems to track down parents skipping out on childsupport payments, according to a study released last month. Since 1984, when Congress made federal funding available to states to develop child
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OPM regs alter training sites, services
Recently the Office of Personnel Management issued interim regulations governing federal employee training that will offer agencies and workers wider options, including expanded use of the private sector. They might also put a crimp in conference attendance because they call for "strict" controls
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HAC approves spending bill; administration objects
The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a strict regimen for an ailing Tax Systems Modernization (TSM) as part of an $11.1 billion spending bill for the Treasury Department, the U.S. Postal Service and central government agencies. It came, however, despite vigorous objections from t
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EIA: 1997 budget forecast for information technology near $50B
Total federal spending for information technology in 1997 will be around $50 billion, or double the $25 billion in IT spending the civil agencies and Defense Department formally report in filings to the Office of Management and Budget, according to the Electronics Industries Association. EIA, in it
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Fed PC market shrank in fiscal '95
The turbulent federal PC market actually shrank in fiscal 1995 because the Air Force Desktop IV contract exceeded its ceiling long before the Desktop V contract was ready. But Desktop IV contractor Zenith Data Systems still topped federal PC shipments last year. These were among the findings of a n
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DOT plan adds second satellite signal
Global Positioning System suppliers are concerned about the costbenefit tradeoff of a Transportation Department plan that would add a second civil signal to the GPS satellite system. Earlier this month DOT requested industry input about whether it should proceed with the option for a second civil
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DFAS hustles to salvage $81.6 million EDM system
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service is scrambling to correct problems that have stalled an $81.6 million program that was intended to convert the Defense Department's major financial processes to a paperless environment. The Electronic Data Management (EDM) system, a largescale imaging and
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Axil targets Sun with SPARC-compatible graphics computer
Axil Computer Inc. this week will turn up the heat on Sun Microsystems Inc. with a SPARCcompatible highend graphics computer that provides extra performance and connectivity options while maintaining a 10 to 15 percent price advantage. Going head to head with Sun's 167 MHz Ultra 1 Model 170E, the
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Supermini hits $500M mark
Litton/PRC Inc. has reached the $500 million mark in orders on its governmentwide Supermini contract, company officials reported last week. The company is also updating the contract with new servers and PCs. The company reached the halfbilliondollar milestone about three and a half years into the
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