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Army trims field to four
The Army cut at least four bidders from the competition for its Portable2 contract including industry leader Compaq Computer Corp. industry sources said last week. The downselect leaves a field of four companies vying for the $150 millionplus prize: Comax Technologies Inc. Government Technology
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Guidelines seen as core to Web policy
The World Wide Web Federal Consortium has published a revised set of homepage guidelines that could make up the core of the eagerly anticipated agencywide Web policy being formulated by the Office of Management and Budget.
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Listings highlight `plum' positions
If you think the transition to the second Clinton administration and its attendant personnel shuffling makes this a good time to try a career move check out the new "Policy and Supporting Positions" listing better known as the "plum book." This quadrennial summary of political and other nonco
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California dreamin'.
My Orange County antenna site has picked up mediumstrength signals that Deborah Castleman would like to replace Emmett Paige Jr. as ASD/C3I. Castleman served as a DASD/C3I to Paige before resigning to help design and develop an electric car. Now I hear she's charged up by the results of the last e
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AWARDS
CACI International Inc. A $14.7 million award for logistics support facility operations and maintenance services for the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek Va. Remtech Services Inc. A $127 321 award for mainframe
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Exhibitions and rules on the Web
For those who plan to leave the Washington metropolitan area during the holiday season but fear they will miss the area's rich cultural offerings check out the new World Wide Web site of the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
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Navy to move $850M in services to BPAs
The Naval Information Systems Management Center has recast an $850 million indefinitedelivery indefinitequantity services procurement into what may be the government's largest servicesoriented blanket purchase agreement. NISMC is close to issuing a request for quotation for multiple BPAs accordi
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Digital Market wins pact to fine-tune EC product
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency last month awarded a $3 million contract to Digital Market Inc. to advance the testing and development of the company's electronic commerce (EC) product to support electronic systems manufacturing. The contract which will be managed by WrightPatterson
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Military to consolidate print shops
The Defense Automated Printing Service plans to absorb 190 military printing facilities in a consolidation the Pentagon launched last month. DAPS which was the Defense Printing Service until it was renamed in October is the military's printer.
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Air Force taps uncommon officer
As a rule second lieutenants don't end up in charge of much of anything especially projects visible to anyone higher than a major. But the Air Force Standard Systems Group (SSG) tapped 2nd Lt. Chad Lynch to run its most visible event of the year: the annual Air Force Information Technology (AFIT)
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IRS, Customs look for common HR system
The Internal Revenue Service and the Customs Service are exploring whether they can integrate their multiple human resources systems into one platform using commercial offtheshelf technology.
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Navy favors outsourcing IT smorgasbord
The Navy plans to conduct a pilot information technology outsourcing program in the Pacific Fleet that could lead to a whole new way the service acquires computer and communications products and services used on shore and at sea.
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Sprint team lands $50M pact to upgrade distance-learning net
The Army's Training and Doctrine Command has awarded Sprint a contract worth nearly $50 million to upgrade its dedicated video distancelearning network in a deal the company says is the largest of its kind in the government. Under the fiveyear Video TeleTraining (VTT) Network contract Sprint and
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Feeling at home at the Pentagon
Not many people can claim to have landed the ultimate job perfectly geared to their interests. Anita K. Jones director of Defense research and engineering can. 'If you are interested in science and technology policy if you want to make a difference at that level in the U.S. this is the best job
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NIH to offer training
The National Institutes of Health next week plans to launch a training course in recent procurement and information technology management reforms that it expects will eventually be open to students from throughout the government and from industry. Jefferson Solutions LLC a subcontractor to Cordant
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Intercepts
* Basic enjoyment. Emmett Paige Jr. the ASD/C3I finally made his departure official in a talk he gave here at the annual AFCEA AsiaPacific Conference saying he planned to formally submit his resignation by Nov. 15. Paige who will continue to serve as long as necessary said he did not 'enjoy the jo
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HP offers servers covering Unix, NT
In a maneuver to tap the burgeoning Internet market HewlettPackard Co. last week announced Internet servers and software that cover Unix and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT platforms. HP unveiled the HP Domain Enterprise Server family and integrated HP Domain Business Suite software system Unixbas
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ROSTER
Col. Otis Ferguson took over as chief of the Army Space Command Colorado Springs Col. Ferguson who previously served as deputy commander for the Space Command's Theater Missile Defense Element succeeded Col. Bill MacArthur who retired. Col. Teddy Bitner replaced Ferguson as commander of the Theater
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GTE, PRC snag $674M support services contract
The Air Force last week awarded contracts to GTE Government Systems and PRC Inc. as part of a $674 million program to provide support services for information systems at 20 bases under the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). Under the MIS Technical Support II program the two contractors will fill ta
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