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Clinton proposes incentives to close digital divide

President's plan would give tax breaks to companies that donate used computers

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Motorola to supply Navy with 'PC Radios'

New softwaredriven Digital Modular Radios positioned to become the 'PC of the radio world'

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GAO finds security plan lacking

Officials say federal agencies aren't equipped to protect critical U.S. infrastructure as called for by the National Plan for Information Systems Protection

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Unicenter TNG aims for total enterprise management but falls just short

Government agencies are prime candidates for enterprise management tools, given that many of them have large numbers of heterogeneous systems distributed across the country and even around the world.

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NSA says computer problem did not affect intelligence

The topsecret agency's computers went down for 72 hours on Jan. 24

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MicroStrategy, GTSI, target Defense

Industry leaders agree to get together to market data mining technology

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Tooth and nail fight for Navy contract goes another round

Winner will claim right to provide satellite services to deployed ships

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Of money and matrimony

Court orders related to divorce or separation can have a significant impact on your federal benefits.

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Andersen Consulting lends expertise to intell agencies

Contract promises to free up three of the Pentagon's top intelligence agencies from daily administrative burdens

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Navy focuses IT training on info ops

The Navy has revamped its training program for information technology technicians and officers, focusing on the skills required to conduct network-centric warfare and information operations.

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Critical Bosnia communication contract up for grabs

The Army is seeking bids on the integral communications network that links U.S. forces in Bosnia with a satellitefed widearea network.

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China trade and foreign workers top agenda for high-tech firms

U.S. hightech companies confront two critical problems securing new markets where they can sell their products and finding enough workers to keep producing them. Solutions to both appear to lie overseas, and the companies have charted a course for Congress to help them reach their goals.

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Navy taps into Microsoft's popular Flight Simulator product

Armchair jet jockeys play Microsoft Corp.'s Flight Simulator on their PCs to capture a bit of the thrill of the real thing, which replicates an actual flight experience closely enough that this week the Navy made its customized version of Flight Simulator standard issue for all student naval aviators.

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Agent Orange studies to hit the Net this year

The Air Force plans to make available by the year's end all raw data and analysis associated with a study into the health effects of the Agent Orange herbicide used during the Vietnam War. But a congressional study has criticized the service for dragging its feet on making the data available via the Internet and other electronic media.

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Roster Change

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Being a performance manager

Recently I taught in an executive education program that the Kennedy School conducted for senior General Accounting Office managers. My topic was performance measurement, especially the kind envisioned by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), the 1993 legislation designed to move agencies to use performance measurement to improve overall government performance.

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Savings plan needs options

Congress is contemplating muchneeded changes to the government's voluntary 401(k)type program, the Thrift Savings Plan, which places too many restrictions on its clients.

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Text of Adm. Jay Johnson's message to all Navy commands about the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet

Text of Adm. Jay Johnson's message to all Navy commands about the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet.

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The harvest of an IT career

Joe Leo's laugh fills the room as he types with two fingers to demonstrate that he knows how to use a computer.

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Embrace the new economy

As we enter 2000, perhaps the greatest challenge for all of us is to ensure that the public sector keeps pace with the social transformation it set in motion when it created and unleashed the Internet. We must embrace the fact that the communication made possible by the Internet really does change everything about how the public will expect us to organize service delivery.