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DOD Leads Professional Services Spending
IDC Government Market Services recently analyzed professional services purchasing trends among federal agencies.
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In intergovernmental nets, ICN leads pack
The dream to build intergovernmental computer networks that link state, local and federal computer systems is taking shape in fits and starts.
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House panel pitches U.S. center to fight cybercrime
In a report peppered with vivid accounts of breakins into government computers, a Senate subcommittee is pushing the creation of a new national center to guard vital government and industry systems from attack.
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Federal Integrator's Top 25 8(a)s
This year's Federal Integrator 8(a) ranking shows that the hardware integration business has become a key thrust for many companies in this sector.
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ALMRS open governmentwide
Citing the pinch of increasingly tight budgets, the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management has launched an innovative procurement program that opens up its $403 million Automated Land and Mineral Record System/Modernization (ALMRS) contract to other land management agencies.
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EIA's 5-year forecast predicts slight drop in IT spending
Despite continued pressure on the federal budget, agencies' spending on information technology should drop only slightly over the next five years, according to an annual forecast conducted by the Electronic Industries Association.
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Hewlett-Packard debuts 64-bit technology
Most federal workstation users can expect significant performance improvements with HewlettPackard Co.'s introduction of 64bit processing technology.
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NEC, Packard Bell merge PC ops
NEC Corp. and Packard Bell Electronics Co. last week announced a merger of their PC operations that will put the full financial and technical backing of the Japanese consumer electronics giant behind Packard Bell and its governmentfocused subsidiary, Zenith Data Systems. Before the deal, NEC alrea
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Paige champions Web tools
Commercial tools and technologies developed to easily tap into information on internets, intranets and the World Wide Web offer "an unprecedented way to change the way [the Defense Department does] business," according to Emmett Paige Jr., the assistant secretary of Defense for command, control,
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EDS opens Internet mall to serve federal buyers
Electronic Data Systems Corp. today formally opened an Internetbased "mall" that allows federal customers to shop the company's productoriented contracts.
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Group prepares first open election
The Industry Advisory Council (IAC), with the public spat between it and the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils (FGIPC) apparently over, last week prepared for its first open elections
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Grievance appeals process: What happened to streamlining?
Although the Civil Service Reform Act was supposed to streamline the grievance appeals process available to feds, that has not happened.
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Madge rolls out Ethernet switches
Madge Networks Inc. today will introduce a new line of stackable Ethernet workgroup switches, dubbed Visage, that allow users to mix and match networking technologies in a single, logical unit. Where other stackable switches are connected via bandwidths of 100 megabit/sec, creating interswitch bott
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INET snares first services schedule INET Inc., Bethesda, Md., late last month became the first General Services Administration Schedule B/C vendor to add information technology services to its contract.
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NRC report urges shift in info security policies
The National Research Council, in a report likely to have a significant influence on the ongoing information security policy debate, is calling on the government to align its national cryptography policy more closely with industry trends. The document was the second report released in May to recomm
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INS/SSA plan draws fire; critics fear federal abuse
A new employment eligibility verification system that the Social Security Administration and the Immigration and Naturalization Service plan to test this summer is coming under attack for giving the federal government too much power over its citizens.
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MasPar reborn as NeoVista
MasPar Computer Corp., which specializes in building highperformance parallelprocessing solutions in the federal market, is reinventing itself this week as NeoVista Solutions Inc. and bringing to market a suite of highend datamining tools for opensystems platforms. In shedding its old name, Ne
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Report cites 'serious issues' in DISA oversight
The Defense Information Systems Agency's poor oversight of the White House Communications Agency has resulted in poor acquisition practices and overspending by the WHCA, according to a recent report by the General Accounting Office. The GAO report describes procurement and spending problems occurri
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