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20 companies to share $1B services prize
The Transportation Department, with the National Performance Review as a backdrop, last week awarded 20 contracts under a $1.13 billion services program, which it hailed as an example of "new" information technology procurements possible under recent federal acquisition reform. The Information Te
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Digital, HP nab $594M workstation buy
Digital Equipment Corp. and HewlettPackard Co. captured the Army's first major workstation procurement, a $594 million buy of Unix and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NTbased computers, software and peripherals. Army WorkstationI represents an important opportunity for both Digital and HP to gain shar
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Plan puts all employees on the Net by summer
The General Services Administration plans to make the Internet available to every one of its 15,000 employees by this summer, claiming it is the first federal agency to put every worker, regardless of grade, into cyberspace. In one of his first messages to GSA employees this month, acting administr
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Round Two
Gerry Heller's company affiliation was misstated in the May 20 Tech Briefing on object technology. Heller is manager of the Software Technology Department of Computer Sciences Corp.'s System Sciences Division.
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Feds turn to hierarchical storage management to migrate data
As the federal localarea network culture matures and storage requirements multiply, users are demanding automated storage management. Rising to meet the demand are new, integrated and robust hierarchical storage management (HSM) products that promise greater efficiency at affordable prices. HSM re
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
In Praise of DOD Modernization In my recent discussions with Elizabeth Sikorovsky regarding the size of the HighPerformance Computing Modernization solicitation/proposal, we did not discuss many of the reasons for its large size. Readers of the resulting article, "Nichols Research captures $159 m
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Tech glitch shuts out Bosnia e-mails
Last week cartoonist G.B. Trudeau treated readers of his "Doonesbury"comic strip to a fictional Internet exchange between troops in Bosnia and the folks at home. "Doonesbury" depicted a fictional Navy Lt. Tripler, identified as a "NATO IFOR (Implementation Force) morale officer," effortlessly
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AWARDS
Keane Federal Systems Inc. A $3.4 million award for systems and application programming support services for the development and maintenance of the Automated Commercial System. Treasury Department, Customs Service, Procurement Division, Room 4210, 1301 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20229
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Industry, IT execs leave long-held posts
A number of industry and agency information technology executives recently announced departures from longheld positions. William Hoover was named executive vice president of systems integrator BDM International Inc. and president and chief executive officer of BDM Federal Inc. He had been presiden
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PACT contract goes to three 8(a) small-business vendors
The Federal Emergency Management Agency next month will award the $30 million Program for Acquisition of Current Technology (PACT) contract to three 8(a) smallbusiness vendors, who will compete for the quick delivery of desktop PC and localarea network products. Award winners are Government Micro
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Sprint to cut its rates
The General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications Service last week struck a deal with Sprint to decrease its rates on FTS 2000 and save an estimated $86 million over the remainder of the contract. John Okay, deputy commissioner of FTS, said those savings are in addition to an estima
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New systems unveiled at ITCA '96
Videoconferencing products introduced at last week's International Teleconferencing Association '96 show in Washington, D.C., ran the gamut from lowend, lowcost desktop systems to highend multipoint bridges. Cinecom Corp. introduced CineVideo/Direct, a lowcost, lowend Microsoft Corp. Windowsb
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ROSTER
The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, named Dr. Ming Hsing Rosa Lee its senior/engineer scientist of the year. This award recognizes Lee's decadelong role in managing and developing the simulation software for the Ohio, Los Angeles and new SSNclass of submarines. Edward "Pete" A
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FEDWIRE
Publication aids CIO recruitment A working group of the interagency Chief Information Officer Council, chaired by Commerce Department CIO Alan Balutis, has developed a model plan for helping agencies recruit candidates for the position of CIO. The document, "Establishing and Recruiting a Federal A
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Sysorex: Desktop V pricing unrealistic
The heavily censored protest filed by Sysorex Information Systems Inc. against the Air Force's Desktop V contract released last week by the General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals offered some intriguing, if incomplete, insights into the winning solutions proposed by Hughe
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Earthquake system faces budget woes
The U.S. Geological Survey, together with the California Institute of Technology and the state of California, have begun building a firstofitskind computer system that will warn Southern Californians of impending earthquakes while at the same time broaden seismologists' understanding of the phen
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Consortium stumps for tech use
A federal consortium formed to promote use of the World Wide Web among U.S. agencies is positioned to become a major global player in the proliferation of Web technology and applications. The National Science Foundation's Federal Web Consortium, which was started three years ago, is growing rapidly
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Pausing to reflect on Desktop V
The longawaited award of the Air Force's Desktop V contract has occurred, as has the inevitable protest halting the entire process, so once again, Air Force users find themselves moving into the summer buying season without their primary PC IDIQ contract. Perhaps because the Desktop series is so h
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Qui tam suits: A division of camps
The Washington Legal Foundation, a freeenterprise, publicinterest law and policy center, recently came out in strong opposition to federal employees acting as private plaintiffs in qui tam suits. Qui tam suits are legal actions taken by private citizens against government contractors who they bel
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