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DOD seeks wide range of hardware and software
The Defense Department this month issued a solicitation for $595 million worth of new hardware and software destined for department hospitals, clinics and field medical facilities. The request for proposals for Support Hardware and Automation Related Products (Generic), known as SHARP(G), calls for
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Digital Cameras Track Peace-Keeping Mission
Since Operation Joint Endeavor began in December, the Defense Department's combat photo journalists in Bosnia have dispatched thousands of images from the field in digital format. Digital photography began to take hold in the military during 1993's Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. But in Bosnia,
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Apple unveils lower-priced models
Apple Computer Inc. may be taking its lumps these days, but government Macintosh fans have reasons to rejoice, with the recent introduction of faster, lowerpriced models and new additions to Government Technology Services Inc.'s General Services Administration schedule. The new Apple machines use
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FEDERAL BYTES
A Few Choice Words?In keeping with its effort to become more userfriendly, the Internal Revenue Service recently began posting its proposed regulations on its World Wide Web site at http://www.irs.ustreas.gov and now offers links to an official comment page for readers to file their opinions on th
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SSA offers satellite classes nationwide
The Social Security Administration plans to begin offering training classes this month via satellite to 220 offices nationwide. The Interactive Video Training Network (IVTN) will link SSA field offices and processing offices so that new hires and existing employees who need advanced training can re
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Move to legislation angers FAA officials
The House Science Committee has angered Federal Aviation Administration officials by attempting to put into law some of the key concepts of the agency's recently enacted acquisition system. The FAA said language in the Omnibus Science Authorization bill, marked up in full committee last week, prema
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Cordant ready to run with IC4I deal
Cordant Inc. is ramping up to do battle with BTG Inc. on the $929 million Integration for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence program. The Air Force awarded IC4I smallbusiness setaside contracts to Cordant and BTG on Dec. 1, 1995. Days later, the Air Force halted work on
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Census releases draft RFC for DCS
The Census Bureau is one step closer to awarding a contract for the decennial census imagebased data capture system with the recent release of a draft request for comments. The draft RFC, issued this month, overhauls an earlier document the bureau released last November for vendor comment. As a re
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70 A contract holders get one-year extensions
Running short of time on negotiations for fiveyear Schedule 70 A contracts, the General Services Administration will announce May 6 that it is extending all current contracts for a year. GSA will also have an "open season" that will allow noncontract holders to join the program and let current c
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ROSTER
Eliza McClenaghan has been appointed chief information officer at the State Department. She previously served as special assistant to the undersecretary for management and worked on management and information resources management issues and as a senior adviser to the acting CIO. Dean Mesterharm was
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Ameritech to donate $2M for document digitization
Telecommunications company Ameritech Corp. said it will donate $2 million to the Library of Congress to help local libraries, state archives, universities and other nonfederal institutions digitize their American history collections for inclusion in the National Digital Library program. The contrib
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New Logistics Systems Identify, Track Bosnian Shipments
If the Defense Department ever ran a contest for the cleanest airfield, Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia, stands a good chance of winning, despite the mud. That's because Tuzla, the main airhead for the 1st Armored Division and its headquarters, is the most obvious beneficiary of a new Pentagon approach to l
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Digital Diagnoses
The National Library of Medicine's huge online database of medical reports and articles, which physicians and medical researchers rely on to make diagnoses and to conduct research, is now available over the Internet. At a health care conference in Washington, D.C., this month, NLM officials descri
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Sun, Digital target feds with mainframe-class servers
Sun Microsystems Inc. and Digital Equipment Corp. are staking out territory in mainframeclass computing with the introduction earlier this month of new highend, Unixbased server technology. Sun's new 64bit Ultra Enterprise servers and Digital's TruCluster solution take different approaches, but
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
VBA Verification I must comment on an article and chart, prepared by Elana Varon, that appeared in the April 1 Federal Computer Week. The chart appeared in an article titled "Fiscal '97 request hits the street," under the heading of "Major FY 1997 IT Spending Proposals," and cited the Departmen
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Army Logistics
The Army is using a number of tiered logistics systems in Operation Joint Endeavor. At the company level, the Army uses the Unit Level Logistics System to order and track supplies, according to a spokesman for Computer Sciences Corp. CSC supports ULLS and other retail logistics systems out of the A
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SCO announces Internet products; BTG, DLT, GBC/Globelle to resell wares
The Santa Cruz Operation Inc., a leading Unix vendor in the federal market, will announce today the first two offerings in its planned line of Internet products. In both offerings, SCO has integrated bestselling Internet packages from Netscape Communications Corp., Morning Star and others with its
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Commanders, Soldiers Bridge Distances With VTC
SARAJEVO, Bosnia Step inside the nondescript door of one of a series of standard 40foot shipping containers that serve as overflow offices at the CINC IFOR compound here, and you'll see a plush video teleconferencing room with three giant TV screens. Adm. Leighton Smith, commander in chief of t
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New Mapping Tools Aid Bosnian Mission
In Operation Joint Endeavor, the military is relying on new imagery software and other offtheshelf technology to deliver 3D and multilayered maps to the field. DOD commanders in Joint Endeavor now have as part of their arsenal the Defense Mapping Agency's PowerScene application and other terrain
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