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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Take Another Look at DISN As longtime fans and faithful readers of FCW, reading the March 18 editorial about the DISN program was, to be kind, shocking. Not because Federal Computer Week expressed an opinion. It certainly is entitled to one. Not even because we substantively disagree with FCW's opi
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JetForm lands role on National Guard Bureau's RCAS
JetForm Corp. last week said it may sell up to 56,700 licenses of its electronic forms products under the National Guard Bureau's Reserve Component Automation System. JetForm will provide software, services and training to support RCAS. The software will be used to automate purchase orders, requisi
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Campaign Web pages for the history books
Among other things, the Smithsonian Institution collects quilts, Dorothy's ruby slippers, old appliances and rare gems. Add to that list a new entry: Web pages. The National Museum of American History has announced Web Archive '96, a project to record and track World Wide Web documents relating to
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Who will pay?
Despite the scale of the problem, federal agencies cannot count on special 2000 funding to set things right. At DOD, Emmett Paige Jr.'s office has said that DOD agencies and the services must reallocate existing budgets. The services are acknowledging this reality. "Funding will come from other pr
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MegaDrive inks fed reseller pact with EdgeMark
MegaDrive Systems Inc. has signed federal reseller EdgeMark Systems Inc. to carry its highperformance removable storage products. EdgeMark will bundle the storage gear as part of turnkey solutions based on Silicon Graphics Inc. workstations. MegaDrive markets five products that range in capacity f
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Bill would merge statistical bureaus
The House is moving ahead with plans to consolidate the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis into a new independent Federal Statistics Service, although the move is opposed by the administration. The proposal, introduced by Rep. Stephen Horn (RCal
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Paralon offers encryption product
Paralon is offering a hardware encryption device that delivers governmentapproved Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption services without requiring traditional key management. Paralon's PathKey system encrypts data in real time between two users by generating a onetime random key for each comm
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Also this week at FOSE...
Beyond PCs, this week's FOSE show will feature information technology ranging from human resources systems to database managers. PeopleSoft Inc. will demonstrate its Federal HR product, the first of a series of applications the vendor has customized for the federal market. The company started deliv
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ROSTER
Secretary of Defense William Perry named Margaret Munson director of the Defense Investigative Service (DIS), replacing John Donnelly, who retired. Munson previously served as acting director for counterintelligence and security in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Contr
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Hughes, Sun win AF buy
The stage is set for fierce competition in the federal workstation arena with the dual award of contracts to Hughes Data Systems and Sun Microsystems Inc. under the $956 million Air Force Workstations I program. Workstations I will supply up to 37,000 portable and desktop Unix systems. Sun is offer
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Gateway 2000 unveils Destination presentation system at FOSE
Gateway 2000 this week will show federal customers its new Destination multimedia presentation system at FOSE. Destination is a 120 MHz PC that is packaged to serve groups of users instead of a single user. It comes with a Mitsubishi 31inch monitor, TV tuner, wireless keyboard and mouse, a sixspe
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Windows 95 installs easily?most of the time
I have installed Windows 95 on at least four machines and I've found that the install wizards are nothing short of amazing. No matter how hard I try to select or change what it has selected Windows 95 knows what it should have to work. It is rarely fooled by the more common hardware found in PCs pr
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PC-Based Servers
The demand for file servers of all sizes and configurations has never been better, in both the federal and commercial markets. In particular, however, federal buyers are snapping up PCbased servers, which gain high marks from shoppers for their performance and ever more affordable prices. Some thi
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Dell, Panasonic debut notebooks
Dell Computer Corp. and Panasonic Personal Computer Co. this week will both debut new 133 MHz Pentiumbased notebook computers at the FOSE trade show. Dell will introduce the latest generation of its highend Latitude XPi notebook family. The new products retain a familiar appearance and compatibil
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Agencies must publish plans to ax federal publications
In this historic fiscal year, Congress and the White House played political football with the executive branch in a game whose final score adds up to drastically slimmer resources for most agency programs. Besides planning furloughs and buyouts, agencies are facing the fact that they won't have the
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One if by air, two if by E (mail)
For folks who think they have reached the height of '90s technology by sending electronic mail from their cars, the Air Force Air Mobility Command has just oneupped them, signing a $6 million contract to provide email directly to the cockpit of more than 300 cargo aircraft. Maj. Steven Herring, d
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New business line puts GSA on billion-dollar FAST track
The General Services Administration plans to launch next month a new information technology business line that could supply more than $1 billion worth of products and services to federal users within two years. The Federal Acquisition Services for Technology (FAST) program is modeled after a hugely
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Treasury's move to AT&T sparks Sprint protest
Sprint last month filed a protest with the General Accounting Office, claiming the government overestimated the savings that would accrue by switching the Treasury Department from Sprint to AT&T telecommunications service. The company accused the General Services Administration of failing to correc
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Handy Devices: New Keyboards and Mice Take Users' Hands to Heart
As motionrelated ailments continue to take their toll physically and fiscally federal buyers are looking seriously at the new breed of userfriendly input devices designed to end suffering and increase efficiency. For years, PC buyers had a pretty short checklist when it came time to evaluat
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