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Alpha Software releases beta Internet e-mail product
Alpha Software Corp. has released the beta version of NetMailer, a product that lets users merge different mailing lists and send personalized mass mailings of electronicmail messages over the Internet. "The only thing that exists today are list servers that send a generalized message to all subs
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Bill moves PTO closer to corporate status
The Commerce Department's Patent and Trademark Office is one step closer to becoming a government corporation. Last week the House Judiciary Committee reported out of committee H.R. 3460, a bill sponsored by Rep. Carlos Moorhead (RCalif.) that would make PTO a government corporation but keep it un
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JPAV helps officials tap services' personnel databases
As part of Operation Joint Endeavor and as a preview of the Global Command and Control System (GCCS) the Defense Department this week will deploy a new application that extends the concept of asset visibility from supplies to personnel. Like supplyoriented systems, the Joint Personnel Asset Vi
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Merlin promises improved GUI, Net integration
IBM Corp.'s next generation of OS/2 Warp, codenamed Merlin, promises to bring some innovative technology to the federal workplace. In my last column, I looked at how the voiceenabled technology that is integrated into Merlin's core will help the disabled and people like me who are "keyboard chal
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Revamped e-mail system will ease communications
The Transportation Department this month will roll out a system that will let 70,000 users of different electronicmail systems communicate regardless of what email package they use. "Messaging is the most important application on a user's desktop," said George Ramick Jr., DOT's messaging manage
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FEDERAL BYTES
The return of the blue and redeyed zombies A NASA press release popped out at us as soon as it arrived. It was an announcement of uploaded pictures of an exploding star, Eta Carinae, on the Internet for public viewing. Even more interesting, the release urged computer users to examine the explosi
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NASA tracks heavenly bodies, reconstructs human faces
As scientists continue to scan the heavens for asteroids and comets moving in Earth's direction, NASA has developed a home page on the subject. NASA's "Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards" home page, at http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov, gives you the rundown on NEOs (near Earth objects) and a look at how sc
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Informix to build 4-D database manager for EOSDIS
For Informix Software Inc., designing a NASA database means leaping into the fourth dimension. Tapped to supply a primary database management system (DBMS) for NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), the Menlo Park, Calif.based company has promised NASA it can catalog a
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GSBCA upholds protest of $100 million SSA procurement
The General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals has ordered the Social Security Administration to change the way it evaluates software licensing fees on its $100 million mainframe contract. The order was included in a decision issued last week granting two of four items in a preawa
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Symantec returns to GSA schedule
After a threeyear hiatus, Symantec Corp. has placed its products back on the General Services Administration's Schedule B/C, the company announced today. The Cupertino, Calif., company's entire product line is now available on the 19961999 schedule. ASAP Software Express, Government Technology Se
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OFPP touts DOT pact as model for agencies
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy wants agencies to copy a recent Transportation Department procurement for computer services as a way to expand contracting opportunities for small and small, disadvantaged businesses (SDBs). In a memo to government procurement executives and agency directors
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N.E.T. introduces frame-relay products
N.E.T. Inc. hopes to improve its standing in the framerelay market with a new set of products that will reduce the perport cost of frame relay over the company's IDNX switch by 50 percent. Sandy Orlando, N.E.T.'s manager of internetworking products, said the company has developed an entirely new
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How can the government influence a contractor's staff selection?
The following topic was raised by a government program manager: Our office is planning to acquire professional services under a new contract. We plan to require letters of commitment from key personnel identified in the proposals to ensure that they will actually be available when the contract is a
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Federal Integrator's Top 25 Primes
In federal integration, the big keep getting bigger.
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DOD IT budget gets $500M boost
The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) last week approved a bill that provides nearly $500 million in unrequested funds for Defense Department information technology programs in the 1997 budget.
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Cabletron adds ATM with ZeitNet buy
Cabletron Systems Inc. will offer federal customers a broader range of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) products following its acquisition of ZeitNet Inc., a network access provider.
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Adarand and Aftermath
* June 12, 1995 U.S. Supreme Court decides Adarand v. Pena Allegation: DOT's subcontracting compensation clause violates Fifth Amendment or equal protection under law.
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Vendors showcase high-tech WIN wares
Potential suppliers for the Army's Warfighter Information Network (WIN), a multibilliondollar project to upgrade all aspects of battlefield communications from fiberoptic cable to widebandwidth routers used last week's Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association/TechNet '96 (AFCE
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SYSTEMS INTEGRATION SCENE
FDC Technologies Inc. recently hired two federal information technology veterans to senior management positions. The Bethesda, Md., integrator named Sterling E. Phillips Jr. vice president of its services group. The company also appointed Charles M. Matthews Jr. vice president responsible for manag
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