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Digi Int'l nabs subcontracts
Digi International Inc., a remoteaccess company, is making a name for itself in the federal government, having been selected recently as a subcontractor on several large indefinitedelivery, indefinitequantity contracts. The company has subcontractor roles on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
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Deutch favors center to avoid 'electronic Pearl Harbor'
Predicting that the United States would face "very, very large and uncomfortable incidents' at the hands of cyberterrorists, CIA Director John Deutch last week pledged to boost U.S. intelligence gathering of foreign information warfare threats. In testimony before the Senate Governmental Affairs
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GSA, Army award $1 billion in hardware, services pacts
The General Services Administration and the Army have quietly awarded more than $1 billion in governmentwide contracts for IT hardware and services to 8(a) vendors, a signal of how agencies will purchase products in the postBrooks Act era. Mary Whitley, director of GSA's Federal Systems Integratio
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Gateway 2000 creates point man for fed sales
When Gateway 2000 Inc. decided to enter the federal market in 1994, it secured a General Services Administration multipleaward schedule. When it upped its commitment to the market earlier this year, it hired Jim Connal. Connal, managing director of federal sales for Gateway 2000, is a veteran of t
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GSBCA looks to its ADR role
Aiming to play a continuing role in resolving disagreements between information technology vendors and federal users, the General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals plans to issue today a notice of its intent to offer alternative disputeresolution (ADR) services. Although Congress
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Gateway Guide
If you want to know how your representative voted on a particular issue, the Library of Congress has it covered. Point your Web browser to http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/legislative/voting.html. The resource, located at the new Library of Congress Internet Resource Page, points users to a series of pr
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Informix joins with Netscape to build workgroup database
Informix Software Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp. last week announced a workgroup database solution targeting intranet applications. The Informix Workgroup Solution consists of Informix intranetenabled database technology, Netscape's FastTrack Server World Wide Web server software and Netsc
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Compaq notebooks headed for Portable-1
Last week's PC Expo in New York was the forum for Compaq Computer Corp. to announce its new Armada Pentium notebook computers, which will replace the company's older Contura models on Government Technology Services Inc.'s Army Portable1 contract. The Armada positions Compaq and GTSI to benefit fro
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Sylvest adapts its business to new procurement reality
Sylvest Management Systems Corp. is repositioning itself to take advantage of and not be stranded by the federal government's rapidly changing procurement practices and has added personnel in such highgrowth areas as the Internet to help smooth its transition. Sylvest, which specializes in pro
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Roster
David F. Findley, principal researcher at the Census Bureau's Statistical Research Division, this month won the Julius Shiskin Award for his leadership in improving seasonal adjustment methodology for the economic time series at Census. Named after a Census employee, the Julius Shiskin Award is adm
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Novell updates network management software
Novell Inc. today unveiled a new version of its ManageWise network management software that will support Microsoft Corp. Windows NT and Novell NetWare servers as well as mixed desktop environments. Novell also announced that it will license LANDesk 2.5 source code from Intel Corp. and incorporate i
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MCI wins $165M FAA satellite deal
The Federal Aviation Administration earlier this month awarded MCI a $165 million contract to provide satellite communications services in the National Airspace System (NAS). The 10year FAA Telecommunications Satellite (FAATSAT) contract will give the FAA a flexible vehicle for integrating satelli
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Federal EC: FACNET, Internet offer agency options
There are just six months left for federal agencies to comply with the president's mandate to use electronic commerce for many of their procurements. But the question no longer is whether EC will come to the federal government, but how and in what form issues that will be influenced strongly by t
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CIOSP program moves to cutting edge
In an effort to award a governmentwide contract before federal agencies begin the fiscalyearend shopping spree, the National Institutes of Health last week prequalified 29 vendors for its $100 million Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners (CIOSP) project. NIH plans to award 12 to 15 co
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Printrak expands marketing reach
Printrak International Inc., the leading supplier of automatic fingerprint identification systems (AFIS), is broadening its marketing reach to include nonlaw enforcement government agencies and the commercial sector. Printrak has built almost its entire business on providing AFIS technology to law
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Platinum Tech software chosen for NASA's EOSDIS
Electronic Data Systems Corp. has tapped Platinum Technology Inc.'s job scheduling software for a role on NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System. Planned to be one of the largest distributed data and distributed processing systems in the world, EOSDIS will assemble at least seven
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Proposal would establish PBO status
The Federal Supply Service is working on a proposal that would establish it as a Performance Based Organization (PBO), exempting it from regulations it believes hinder it from buying equipment and supplies at the lowest cost for federal agencies. FSS commissioner Frank Pugliese said his proposal wo
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Intercepts
* Back to Oz. The Interceptor this week returns from twoplus weeks of R&R. The antennas do get comfortable after a couple of weeks, but no one wears them as well as the Interceptor. His official return with next week's column should dispel the popular rumor that the Interceptor had permanently pit
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DISA to offer four contracts totaling $610 million
The Defense Information Systems Agency is expected to release the final request late this week for proposals for a $610 milliondollar, multipleaward services contract for DISA's engineering organization. DISA's Joint Interoperability & Engineering Organization (JIEO) System Engineering Support Se
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