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Health scare heads-up
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is coordinating a national communication network for use in health emergencies
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Gone in 60 seconds
When the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission hired Charles Madison to improve their customer service, it was taking two or three days for field service representatives to respond to customers' calls about their bills, faulty meters or property concerns. That was not good.
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Minnesota network stalls
Minnesota state officials recently terminated an agreement with a developer who ran out of money halfway though installation of a 2,200mile fiberoptic network
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Georgia to outsource telecom
To better manage its information technology, Georgia plans to outsource and consolidate its telecommunications services in the next 18 months.
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AT&T disputes FTS award
The General Services Administration is reviewing a protest filed by AT&T that asks the agency to terminate its FTS 2001 telecommunications contracts with Sprint and WorldCom Inc. and reopen competition.
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Sun equips satellite control
The Air Force will use Sun hardware for tracking and controlling communications satellites
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Commerce awards telecom deal
Commerce's $6 million telecom pact moves e-gov plan forward
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Delays to FTS 2001 cost taxpayers $74M
Taxpayers are paying an extra $74 million because 27 agencies failed to meet the Dec. 6, 2000, deadline for switching to FTS 2001
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Firms unite to provide broadband
Rural Idaho will get broadband access, jump-started by a state tax credit
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DISA pilots wireless portal
The Defense Information Systems Agency has established a prototype wireless portal for customer account managers
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DISA piloting wireless portal
Customer account managers can download information to PDAs to provide better service
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System offers better remote interaction
Videoconferencing technology has improved to the point where participants all over the world can see and hear one another with acceptable quality and reliability
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System speeds nuclear messages
Commanders of nuclear forces soon will have a new emergency action message system
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FAA charts course for WAAS
The Federal Aviation Administration remains committed to incrementally developing its satellite navigation system but also acknowledged that the business case for a key system in that effort may have changed.
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Industry's wallets willing for spectrum
Money talks, and to free radio spectrum for 3G applications, it will need to speak up
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Protect and serve
Lt. Gen. Harry Raduege Jr.'s plan to shake up DOD's biggest IT provider
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Davis seeks probe of MAA management
Davis has expanded his investigation into how the GSA telecommunications contracts
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