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Federal Integrator's Top 25 Subcontractors
This year's subcontractor list is a tribute to stability: All but four of the vendors were ranked as top product suppliers in either 1994 or 1995.
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SunSoft announces Java toolkit, JavaOS
Hoping to appeal to government network administrators and others who work within hardtointegrate heterogeneous environments, SunSoft Inc. last week announced a Javabased toolkit for developing platformindependent network management tools.
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Revamped rules unleash buying frenzy
Vendors holding General Services Administration Schedule B/C contracts are reporting record sales in the usually slow months of March and April, as agencies place multimilliondollar orders that were previously prohibited.
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House mulls role of tech in day-to-day operations
They may not be calling it business process reengineering, but the House Rules and Organization Subcommittee has begun to grapple with questions of how technology might change the way the House operates. "The goal is to determine how we can meet the internal demand for more flexibility and effici
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May a government contractor transfer its contract to another company?
The following question was asked by a company official: We are interested in acquiring another company that has current federal government business. Must we obtain government approval of the transaction before completing the purchase? Can the government deny such approval? In general, a government
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Air Force halts PC sked orders
The Air Force last week nixed plans by users to buy Desktop V "killer" PC packages that vendors planned to offer on the General Services Administration schedule while protests on the megadeal are being resolved. In a memo dated May 31, the service directed all major commands "not to procure off
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Lockheed chooses HP products for AFIS pact
Lockheed Martin Corp. has selected HewlettPackard Co. workstations and servers to build the heart of the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). Lockheed Martin in January captured the $109 million Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) contract, one of fi
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Vendors balk at move to all-electronic CBD
A plan to make the Commerce Business Daily fully electronic has encountered criticism from online service providers criticism that may cause the Commerce Department to rethink its initial intention.
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USDA launches purchase card and checking system
The Agriculture Department this month began the pilot program of an automated government purchase card and checking system that is expected to cut procurement transaction costs nearly in half.
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AWARDS
Price Waterhouse. An $8.7 million award to measure firstclass mail service. U.S. Postal Service, Washington, D.C. Loral ElectroOptical Systems Inc. A $3.4 million award for engineering development, support and testing necessary to field an experimental warfighting instrumentation system. Dahlgren
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Navy inks $98.6M sked deal
The Naval Information Systems Management Center (NISMC) late last month signed an ordering agreement worth up to $98.6 million with AmeriData Federal Systems that appears to be the largest ever deal off the General Services Administration's Schedule B/C.
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GIS project will digitize 80,000 maps in 5 years
The Library of Congress has launched one of the government's most ambitious geographic information system (GIS) projects to date, with plans to digitize and place online as many as 80,000 maps within the next five years. At the end of the project, a 20terabyte database of historic American and Eu
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Insignia debuts new Ntrigue server software
Insignia Solutions Inc. last week introduced a new version of its Ntrigue application server software that includes new systems administration features and other enhancements that make it easier to deploy as part of large networks. Ntrigue allows Unix, Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh and Microsoft Co
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FTS, RBOCs join forces to overhaul federal listings
The General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications Service is working with regional Bell operating companies nationwide to redesign the structure of federal listings in local telephone books and to include electronicmail addresses. FTS commissioner Bob Woods said the redesign will ma
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Secure Computing to acquire Border Network
Secure Computing Corp., maker of highend firewalls and security products, announced last week that it will acquire Border Network Technologies Inc., the secondlargest Internet firewall vendor in the world.
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Mission control, mission impossible
This summer's Senate hearings on computer crime and the National Information Infrastructure are sure to bring even more attention to the problems of malicious hackers on the Infobahn.
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Army unveils battlefield communications strategy
The Army has kicked off a multibilliondollar project to revamp its battlefield communications systems, a project that calls for replacing or upgrading virtually every piece of the Army's battlefield communications infrastructure, from cables to radios to switches to satellite terminals. The new Wa
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Budget woes may ground tower effort
The Federal Aviation Administration, faced with an uncertain budget environment, is once again cutting back one of its major air traffic control modernization programs. As part of its new strategy for Tower Automation, which involves replacing the hardware and software at select air traffic control
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On the road with Microsoft's Windows 95
Over the last month or so, I have had a chance to use a Toshiba Tecra 700CT laptop.
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