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Atlanta's Fingerprint ID System Not Just For Criminals
Atlanta's Fingerprint ID System Not Just For Criminals
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DEA to roll out booking system
The Drug Enforcement Administration next month plans to launch a longawaited program to automate the process of booking suspected drug runners. The agency says it will release in July a request for proposals for the Automated Booking StationLite (ABSLite) project which will digitize all the info
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Vendors demonstrate electronic solutions to FOIA requests
Urging federal Freedom of Information Act specialists to trade thick black markers and Exacto knives for technology four companies last week demonstrated solutions designed to ready the government for a Sept. 30 deadline by which agencies must respond electronically to some FOIA requests. BTG Inc.
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Feds find limited applications for multimedia technology
Multimedia technology which combines sound video text and graphics is the engine behind a National Biological Service (NBS) effort to inventory Florida's waning manatee population and the fuel for a new naval doctrine series that incorporates old Hollywood movie footage. Applications such as th
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Vendors see STARS in INS program
The Immigration and Naturalization Service later this month plans to release a draft request for proposals for a halfbilliondollar megacontract to provide INS with a full range of information technology services. The upcoming Service Technology Alliance Resources (STARS) program will supply INS
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CDC molds nationwide collaboration of immunization databases
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that slightly more than threequarters of the nation's children are properly vaccinated by the age of 2. As part of an effort to increase that figure to 90 percent by 2000 the agency is developing a nationwide 'mosaic' of immunization databas
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NEW TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS IN THE CIVIC SECTOR
Enhanced 911 Solutions to Local Governments
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Demand declines for midlevel multimedia products
Midlevel multimedia software packages marketed strictly for use in creating jazzedup presentations complete with sound animation and video have experienced a downturn in sales in recent months. The decline is due in part to an explosion at the high end of the multimedia arena where Internet a
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Maryland Child Support Contract Enables Quick Payment
Maryland Child Support Contract Enables Quick Payment
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LA Unveils Criminal History Reporting System
Los Angeles County law enforcement officers will have access to an extensive new criminal history database
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Tenn. Taps Library System Vendor
Tennessee recently selected Auto-Graphics Inc., Pomona, Calif., to design and operate a Web-based library catalog and inter-library loan system
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Should States Fund Citizen Tech Programs?
Just what is state and local governments' role in ensuring that citizens have access to the latest communications and computing tools? That's one of the questions that Jane Leonard, the community development manager for Minnesota's fledgling Office of Technology, is trying hard to answer
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Dow Jones affiliate unwraps on-line products for feds
In an effort to bring Wall Street to Washington D.C. a New Yorkbased financial publishing database and software consulting firm is targeting the federal market with online products and services designed to make the average federal employee a smarter investor. IDD Enterprises under the majority ow
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NTIS uses vendors to help agencies create sites
The National Technical Information Service will issue a solicitation within the next few weeks to create a pool of vendors that will provide agencies with World Wide Web development services necessary to build quality Web sites. The Web services solicitation will become a vehicle for a series of ba
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Macs hang on in fed market, but future remains uncertain
Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh is not dead in the federal market but the platform's future prospects are uncertain. That is the analysis of industry executives and analysts who have been following the company. On the one hand they report that agencies so far are not scrapping their Macs in favor o
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Last-minute bargains lure desktop shoppers
With two weeks left in the busy government buying season and a budget of $2 000 what desktop machine can you put on your desk? According to an informal survey undertaken by Federal Computer Week PC vendors and resellers are offering a wide range of desktop configurations for about $2 000 the pric
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Navy's Spawar offers options to students
Still mired in cumbersome federal regulations government training programs overall have failed to keep pace with technology in terms of convenience and availability. But the Navy is using two major contracts to forge faster and more progressive training methods. Under PRC Inc.'s $3 billion Supermin
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