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Round Two
An article on page 32 of FCW's June 17 issue should have identified Janet ThotThompson as a senior computer systems analyst at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, not the National Research Council.
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AWARDS
Miltope Corp. A $4.6 million award for Super Bobcat computers. Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Indianapolis, Ind. Hughes STX Corp. A $4.4 million award for systems engineering and acquisition support services for the AWIPS acquisition office. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra
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Positioning critical to CIO success
Agency chief information officers will need seats at the table where policy and strategy are formulated, as well as the power to carry through on decisions made, if the push to create effective CIOs governmentwide is to succeed, according to a new report. The most critical factor to the CIOs' event
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Librarians: Various platforms needed to give public access
The government should prepare to offer the public access to electronic documents through a variety of platforms and formats including printed materials for the foreseeable future because not everyone will be able to obtain or read federal information provided through the Internet, technology ex
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Federal Bytes
At the sound of the beep... The Social Security Administration, typically run by a snappy, professional staff, seems to have forgotten its manners in the afterglow of awarding the agency's longawaited Intelligent Workstation/Local Area Network contract. Unisys Corp. won the contract, which will pl
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NCEP director looks beyond bad weather
Having grown up on a farm in North Carolina, George Murphy understands, perhaps more than most, how weather can impact people's livelihoods and everyday lives. "Weather is the typical thing that really governs your life," said Murphy, director of central operations at the National Centers for Env
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Plenty of blame to go around for TSM
If one needs any further proof that times have changed in government, look no further than the plan being considered by the House Appropriations Committee to curb the Tax Systems Modernization program. After years of giving the IRS nearly all the money it wanted, Congress is deciding it wants more
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Unisys official winner of IWS/LAN contract
Unisys Corp. last week was formally named the winner of the Social Security Administration's sevenyear, $185 million Intelligent Workstation/Local Area Network (IWS/LAN) contract, the core program through which SSA officials plan to modernize the agency's operations, streamline administration and
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Amdahl previews CMOS machine
Amdahl Corp. this week revealed more details of its forthcoming entry into the Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS)based mainframe market, including support for Parallel Sysplex technology and an option to combine two eightway mainframes in one box. Expected to be available by August, A
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Bureaucratus
Borrowing from your TSP account Feds participating in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) can borrow a portion of the money in their accounts for specified transactions such as buying a primary residence, paying education and medical expenses or meeting a financial hardship. Participants can only borrow
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Sprehe needs to lighten up on government home page authors This is not written in any official capacity, but just as a reader of FCW and a person who created a very simple government home page. I found J. Timothy Sprehe's article in the June 10 issue of FCW to be very interesting. First, it highlig
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Measure penalizes officials, targets dumped superCPUs
Federal procurement officials would lose their salaries if they purchased alleged 'dumped' supercomputers, under an appropriations bill provision offered by Rep. David Obey (DWis.). But the provision, included in the funding bill for NASA and the National Science Foundation, is being questioned by
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PTO banks on info tech to hasten patent process
The Patent and Trademark Office is making progress on a number of information technology projects designed to speed up and improve the patent examination process, agency officials told Congress earlier this month. Bruce Lehman, assistant secretary of the Commerce Department and commissioner of pate
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Agencies zoom into new video tech
Federal agencies will soon be able to buy notebook computers that can display fullmotion, TVquality video for training, videoconferencing and security monitoring applications. Until now, most computers have used decompression software to show small, halting video images. But a new specification s
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FCW earns top computer press honor
Federal Computer Week was named Best Trade Newspaper last week by the Computer Press Association in its 11th annual Computer Press Awards. More than 100 finalists contended for awards in some 26 categories that included books, magazines, and multimedia and online categories. The Best Trade Newspap
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Rubin: Cuts imperil TSM program fix
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin last week warned Congress that a plan to cut more than 2,000 information systems employees at the Internal Revenue Service's Tax Systems Modernization seriously jeopardizes the agency's ability to fix the troubled program. Rep. Jim Lightfoot (RIowa), chairman of the
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Bill would halt 8(a) program
The leader of the House Small Business Committee plans soon to offer legislation canceling the Small Business Administration's $5.5 billion 8(a) contracting program, although it is unlikely such a measure would get through Congress this year. Rep. Jan Meyers (RKan.), who is retiring from the House
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Cordant's Johnson tapped as Industry Advisory Council chair
After several months of bruising conflict, Industry Advisory Council (IAC) members elected Kenneth Johnson of Cordant Inc. as their new chairman, on a promise of reconciliation with the organization's government partners. IAC's previous board of directors became embroiled in a dispute over financia
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GPO's longstanding federal printing monopoly may be history
For federal printing, the stuff hit the fan May 31. That's the day Walter Dellinger, assistant attorney general and head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, issued a memorandum to the General Services Administration titled "Government Printing Office Involvement in Executive Branc
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