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OMB nears new FMS reg The Office of Management and Budget last week released the final revision of its changes to the regulation that requires federal agencies to buy all their financial management systems from a single contract. The changes to OMB Circular A127 will lift the requirement that agen
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Roster Change
Jerry Russomano plans to leave his post as director of program systems service at the Education Department to become director of software development at the Customs Service. His last day at Education will be July 16, and he will step into his new role at Customs on July 19. John R. Watson was selec
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NSA, NIST tools urged Federal security experts last week urged a House panel to include in a rewrite of the 12yearold Computer Security Act language that would require agencies to use security solutions provided by the National Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technolog
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Federal Bytes
LONG ARM OF THE (BROTHERIN) LAW. Fresh off his tour as California chief information officer, John Thomas Flynn, now a vice president for Litton/PRC Inc., regaled attendees at last week's Federation of Government Information Processing Councils' Management of Change Conference with a story about h
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FCW wins online award
Federal Computer Week received a top national award last week for its online news coverage. The award was part of the 21st annual Publication Excellence Awards of the American Society of Business Press Editors. ASBPE gave its gold award to FCW, an International Data Group Corp. publication, for bes
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The Association for Federal Information Resources Management this month gave out its annual awards. Bruce McConnell, director of the International Y2K Cooperation Center, won AFFIRM's Executive Leadership Award for his efforts to promote international cooperation in handling the Year 2000 computer
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Hamre, McGuirk win Eagle Awards John Hamre, deputy secretary of the Defense Department, and James McGuirk, president of Unisys Federal Systems, last week won Federal Computer Week's Eagle Awards for outstanding accomplishments in the world of federal information technology. Hamre won the top govern
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Hot Iron Awards brand best buys
AIM Technology last week presented its Summer '99 AIM Hot Iron Awards during the GovTechNet International trade show in Washington, D.C. The AIM Hot Iron Awards, presented twice a year, are based on an array of systemlevel performance tests that are designed to closely model reallife computing en
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SEAT MANAGEMENT: YEAH, BABY! The General Services Administration's Seat Management contract may never achieve the popularity of 'Star Wars.' But the program drew a comparison to 'Austin Powers' last week. Federal agencies' reaction to the Seat Management desktop outsourcing contract has been as div
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Anthony Galante, chief information officer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will retire from government service at the end of this month. Stuart Reiter, who joined the agency last month as deputy CIO, will be named CIO. Reiter previously worked as director of infrastructure services for IMC Gl
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Networking, security take center stage at GovTechNet
Network technology took center stage at the GovTechNet International Conference and Exposition last week, as industry vendors introduced or previewed a slew of products designed to ease data communications in the office and in the field. Other announcements include encryption technology for recorda
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CKO: A welcome addition
When Congress passed information technology procurement and management reforms, the idea was to push stodgy federal IT managers to think out of the box about how IT could support agencies' missions. Many agencies certainly have taken the reforms to heart, with the latest change coming in the form o
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Set-Asides
Panel slices IT research funds The Senate Appropriations Committee has denied the Energy Department's $70 million budget request for its Scientific Simulation Initiative, a piece of the Clinton administration's proposed $366 million information technology research program that would pay for cuttin
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Hill must fully embrace the Net
When it comes to agencies developing information technology systems, Congress can be quick to offer helpful criticism. But when using IT or developing systems for the Hill, Congress frequently does not get it. The latest case in point is the House of Representatives' effort to upgrade a system that
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Y2K SURVIVAL GEAR. During a recent hearing on personal preparedness for the Year 2000, Sen. Robert Bennett (RUtah), chairman of the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, presented Sen. Chris Dodd (DConn.), the committee's vice chairman, with a special gift. Dodd received a
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Molaski named DOT CIO George Molaski has been named chief information officer at the Transportation Department. Molaski, who previously was president of International Data Corp. Government, also serves as chairman of the Economic Development Authority for Falls Church, Va. SAIC to acquire Boeing se
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Round Two
In the June 7 issue of FCW: Because of an editing error, the federal Web sites that the group F0rpaxe had hacked were incorrectly identified. The group hacked into the FBI's Web site. The program for which K. Adair Martinez won a Federal 100 award was incorrectly identified. Martinez won the award
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De'Borah Applegate has accepted a position with the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service. Applegate will be an investigator for the Office of Management's internal control staff. She was a member of the security team in the USDA's Information Systems Security and Telecommunic
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Industry Watch
Intel unveils new processors Intel Corp. this week will announce its new Pentium II and Celeron 400 MHz mobile processors. Besides raising processor performance for the last time before Intel releases its Pentium III mobile processors this fall, the PII 400 is the first processor to use the 0.18mi
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