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PUBLIC AFFAIRS? Linda Tripp yes, that Linda Tripp began her first full day of work last week in a new Defense Department job, a federal government spokesman confirmed. Tripp will work as a public affairs specialist for the Defense Manpower Data Center an informationintensive operation that m
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Roster Change
President Clinton nominated Kelly Carnes as assistant secretary for technology policy at the Commerce Department. Carnes is the deputy assistant secretary for technology policy in Commerce's Technology Administration. Kerry Miller has been named administrative law judge at the Government Printing O
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Preference cutoff handcuffs DOD
The government's effort to funnel more business, including information technology contracts, to small and minorityowned businesses took a hit last month when the Defense Department suspended for one year the preference it gives small and disadvantaged businesses when awarding contracts. The prefer
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Clinton Administration to Develop Y2K Contingency Plans
The Clinton administration announced that it will develop contingency plans to keep federal/state social programs operational in case stateowned computers fail because of the Year 2000 computer problem.
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Federal Bytes
HAVE A COW. Moove over, Gateway. Edge Technologies has taken the cow theme to bigger pastures. Edge operates a cowmating service on the Internet to help farmers find the perfect bull genetically, that is for their cow. Edge collects data from the Agriculture Department and other organizations
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Fedwire
Bell Atlantic's Ghion, 58, dies Ray Ghion, vice president of sales at Bell Atlantic Federal from 1996 until October 1998, died last week of brain cancer. He was 58. Ghion, a Bell employee since 1968, was active in industry organizations such as the Industry Advisory Council and the Armed Forces Com
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FTS 2001 caveat emptor
With the recent FTS 2001 awards to Sprint and MCI WorldCom for longdistance service, agencies may rejoice at the potential for substantial savings in their longdistance bills. The two companies bid aggressively against AT?#038; Amp;T and promise savings of about 60 percent for standard voice calls beyond t
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17 High-risk Agencies
The Year 2000 problem and information security practices leave the federal government susceptible to fraud, waste and abuse, according to a series of reports the General Accounting Office released last month.
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Marketplace
For the EBuyer, EDI Getting Easier The key to California's plans to launch a system that state workers can use to purchase equipment and services via the Internet may be technology that Sunnyvale, Calif.based Ariba Technologies Inc. has developed to make electronic data interchange (EDI) applicat
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Marketplace
Psych 101 Helps Xerox ReEngineer Documents and GTE's inResponse Rescues the Deluged Webmaster
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Intercepts
THINKING MACHINES. The Defense Information Systems Agency does not fare especially well in the General Accounting Office's recent report on multipleaward contracts. Through fiscal 1997, according to GAO, DISA received only one bid for about 44 percent of the task orders placed against its vehicles
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Hill demands feds defend IT spending
In many of the fiscal 1999 appropriations bills Congress still hopes to pass before it adjourns Oct. 9, legislators tied funding to performance and have pushed agencies for detailed plans on information technology projects under development before any more money is distributed. Eben Townes, senior
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Technology, Reviews and Business
During investigations police officers are likely to share information only sporadically with other jurisdictions.
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