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DOD centers boost super power
Two new supercomputers purchased for $12 million by the Aeronautical Systems Center at WrightPatterson Air Force Base, Ohio, will nearly double the peak computing capacity at the center's computer lab. Two systems, an IBM Corp. RS/6000 SP with the company's new Power 3 processors and a Compaq Comp
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PC Docs upgrades management suite
PC Docs Group International Inc. next week will announce an upgrade to its document management product suite that is designed to make accessing documents easier. Version 3.0 for each of three products would enable users to run a PC Docs system across multiple servers, allow offline use of the syste
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NIH readies services contract follow-on
The National Institutes of Health last week confirmed that it will recompete its Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners (CIOSP) contracts, with a plan to award new pacts before the current ones expire in August 2001. Leamon Lee, NIH's associate director for administration, said he wants a
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New device wipes CD-ROMs clean of data
What looks like a bomb, sounds like a coffee grinder and can destroy a compact disc's contents in 40 seconds? A new device, called the DXCDe, which pulverizes the data layer on CDROM and CDRecordable discs so that it cannot be reconstructed, even with an electron microscope and a supercomputer.
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Supercomputer field opens up
When the Energy Department launches its next competition to build the world's fastest supercomputer, some new vendors will bid for entry into a club that has been dominated by two companies, Silicon Graphics Inc. and IBM Corp. Compaq Computer Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. last week said that they
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NARA issues electronic records guidelines
The National Archives and Records Administration last week issued instructions to agencies for cataloging their email and word processing files. The guidelines, outlined in NARA Bulletin 9904, cover copies of programrelated records that remain on agencies' 'live' email systems, file servers and
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SRA lands EPA pact
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday awarded SRA International Inc. a fiveyear, $124 million contract to help it update its business processes and its information systems architecture.
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HHS tackles recordkeeping with workflow
The Department of Health and Human Services is deploying a workflow system in Secretary Donna Shalala's office that will include electronic recordkeeping capabilities possibly the first such system to be installed in the top reaches of a federal agency. The installation is significant because it
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DOE preps next ASCI buy
The Energy Department is preparing to issue a request for proposals for a new supercomputer that can calculate 30 trillion floatingpoint operations per second (teraflops), which would be three times more powerful than any system currently being used.
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OFPP readies new GWAC rules of the road
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has begun working with agencies on a new set of principles for running governmentwide acquisition contracts that would help agencies determine when such procurements are appropriate and how they should be structured. Deidre Lee, OFPP's administrator, last we
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Storage vendors enter records fray
When a federal judge ruled 17 months ago that agencies had to start managing their electronic records, one of the first questions raised by information technology managers was how they would store millions of files. Now some storage system vendors think they have the answer. At FOSE last week, two
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NARA adds history to Digital Classroom
As more schools come online, teachers are searching for ways to use the World Wide Web in the classroom. Last month, the National Archives and Records Administration released its first set of online materials for teaching American history, containing nine lesson plans that use digitized documents t
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Expert: NIH needs $200M for research
The National Institutes of Health should invest $100 million to buy a stateoftheart supercomputer and another $100 million to develop software and train scientists to use the system for biomedical research, the head of a pharmaceutical company told Congress last week. Frederick Hausheer, a physi
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Customs regroups its info tech staff
In an effort to improve its compliance with the ClingerCohen Act and address persistent criticism of the way it manages its information systems, the Customs Service has reorganized its information technology staff. S.W. 'Woody'' Hall, Customs' chief information officer, said the new structure will
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DOD upgrades super tech
The Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (CEWES) late last month announced it had awarded $25 million in contracts to upgrade its supercomputers and to take advantage of some of the newest and most powerful technology available. The upgrades, which also are occurring at other Defens
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EPA to create central IT modernization fund
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to establish a central information technology fund that eventually will provide $30 million a year for systems modernization projects.
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EMC builds storage network
EMC Corp. last week rolled out a new set of storage solutions aimed at letting customers consolidate their data storage across multiple computing platforms. The product line, called the Enterprise Storage Network (ESN), would let users capture data from many more servers across a wider geographic a
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Energy to open assignment of supercomputing time
The Department of Health and Human Services' top information technology executive told Congress today that the agency's electronic payment system, which processes about $170 billion a year in federal grants, should be Year 2000compliant by June, but the general Accounting Office is skeptical the system will be ready by then.
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Bill seeks to double FY 2000 budget to fight child porn
A House bill introduced this month would double the Customs Service's budget to expand a lab and provide more information technology training for agents to investigate child pornography on the Internet. The bill, introduced by Rep. Nick Lampson (DTexas), would authorize $20 million over the next f
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Coping with digital recordkeeping
Responding to court rulings mandating that the government maintain its digital documents in electronic form, federal information technology managers are moving electronic records management (ERM) to the front burner. But as agencies start looking for ways to maintain a digital record of agency busi
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