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Small company shows how to win business
Like many firms founded and managed by young business leaders, PlatinumSolutions has been trying to get its name more widely known in the government market.
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GSA issues satellite RFP
The General Services Administration is accepting bids on Satcom-II, a new contract that will replace the existing GSA Satellite Services program.
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Qwest to connect NASA centers
Qwest will provide end-to-end wavelength services using its QWave optical communications technology.
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Military to get mobile comms
Americom Government Services and ViaSat have signed a deal to combine their infrastructure and technologies.
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Bush seeks merger of two GSA funds
Bush's 2007 budget proposal seeks to merge the Information Technology Fund and the General Supply Fund into the Acquisition Services Fund.
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NSF requests $50M for IT
The National Science Foundation has budgeted $19.7 million for a major IT infrastructure and office automation upgrade in fiscal 2007.
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Coalition creates council on tech convergence
The Council on Telecommunications-Technology Convergence will bring together companies that provide technologies involved in the convergence of IT and communications.
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FAA would reduce spending on telecom system
The agency's budget, however, seeks a 32.6 percent increase for a modernization program.
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Commerce seeks $1.68B IT budget
The department would get $1.68 billion for IT expenditures, about $11 million more than it has budgeted for fiscal 2006.
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OFPP finalizes contracting officers' certification standards
After years of trying to get the civilian contracting workforce on the same level as at the Defense Department, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy earlier this week finalized the certification program for employees under General Schedule 1102.<@SM>
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DOD raises the bar on info assurance
New manual on security training could be a model for the rest of government
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VMware offers free virtualization server
The company's products provide capabilities for server consolidation, business continuity and a variety of other applications.
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PMA fuels improved financial management: OMB
Agencies have speeded up completion of financial statements, accomplished more clean audits and strengthened internal controls, according to the Office of Management and Budget.
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StillSecure offers free intrustion-detection system
It's a version of the company's Snort-based Strata Guard.
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Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge team up
The close proximity of their computational resources supplies the networking and power to maintain some of the largest computer systems in the world.
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GSA's Suda moves to Agriculture
Robert Suda, assistant commissioner for information technology solutions at the Federal Technology Service, will leave GSA.
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Boston's transit authority plans to modernize telecom system
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority awards a $7.8 million contract to install an interoperable voice and data communications system.
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IRS should extend e-filing goal to 2011: Oversight Board
The IRS should extend its goal to have the overwhelming majority of income tax returns filed electronically from 2007 to 2011 to extend the benefits of the momentum it has created, the IRS Oversight Board recommended today.<@SM>
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Experts: Countries make dangerous cyber adversaries
They often have more resources and can attack more effectively, one expert says.
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