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NASA JPL hooks into SuperNet
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will be the first organization outside the San Francisco Bay area to hook up to a new network that is being touted as the forerunner of the Next Generation Internet. Federal officials announced last week that JPL would connect to the National Tran
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Justice report scolds INS over automation programs
Immigration and Naturalization Service officials have not adequately managed programs for automating the agency's business processes, according to a blunt report from the Justice Department's inspector general. The report, released earlier this month, criticizes INS for failing to manage its major
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Disaster maps put online
In an effort to provide the public with more information to prepare for natural disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency last month added an electronic mapping feature to one of its educational programs. The public can access the electronic maps on the World Wide Web to view the history o
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FBI turns on new crime-fighting system
FBI officials announced today that they have successfully rolled out a massive new computer system that state and local law enforcement officials will use to fight crime.
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White House asks Hill for more IT research funding
President Clinton's top technology adviser told a House committee today that Congress must beef up funding for federal information technology research and development programs.
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Greystone unit eases hard drive transfers
Greystone Peripherals Inc. next month will begin shipping a handheld device that can copy data from one hard drive onto another, a capability that company officials hope will be welcome among whitecollar crime investigators as well as average systems administrators. The device, the DataFast D101,
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Justice eases access to community programs
As the debate on school violence and possible solutions continues, the Justice Department recently unveiled a World Wide Web site that may prove useful to parents and educators trying to attack the problem at its roots. DOJ's Building Blocks for Safe and Healthy Communities site promotes itself as
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DOD taps two vendors for technology advice
The Defense Department's Health Affairs office early this month tapped two small businesses to replace the department's homegrown computer systems with offtheshelf products under a potential $500 million program. The awards to Planned Systems International Inc. and Puma Systems Inc. are part of
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Most agencies not complying with Results Act, officials say
Agencies still have much to do to comply with a 6yearold law that requires them to show what they accomplish with the money they spend, according to federal officials speaking at a congressional hearing last week. Many agencies still have not complied with the Government Performance and Results A
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DOD Health Affairs awards Lot IV of D/SIDDOMS II
The Defense Department Health Affairs office late last week awarded contracts to Planned Systems International Inc. (PSI) and Puma Systems Inc. under a potential $500 million program that seeks to replace the agency's homegrown computer systems with offtheshelf products.
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Hill gives $35M for initial IRS modernization
Congressional leaders today gave the Internal Revenue Service the goahead to spend $35 million on the first phase of its mammoth computer modernization project.
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Feds submit access plans for disabled
Federal agencies last week submitted to the Justice Department reports that explain how the agencies plan to comply with a law that requires them to provide disabled workers with access to computers. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 requires agencies to ensure that federal employees who are bli
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Clarke leaves IT legacy at DOD
This weekend, as Army Col. John Clarke begins to ease out of federal service and into civilian life, he'll be doing something that he finds very familiar: building and repairing things. In this case, the things will be houses in Appalachia. Clarke will be pitching in for an entire week on a service
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HCFA joins desktop outsourcing ranks
The Health Care Financing Administration last week awarded a task order to Boeing Information Services Inc. to provide turnkey desktop computer services, adding momentum to the federal government's fledgling seat management initiative. The $50 million, threeyear pact, awarded off the Outsourcing D
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Spatial data plan gets Interior boost
In an apparent aboutface on a proposal to revamp the way federal, state and local governments collect and share geographic data, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt last week told a House subcommittee that it should consider key points of the plan. The proposal, issued by the National Academy of Publ
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INS taps Logicon to assess development projects
Logicon Inc. last month landed an estimated $61 million deal to act as an independent auditor of work performed under a sprawling Immigration and Naturalization Service contract. The fiveyear blanket purchase agreement covers independent verification and validation (IV?#038; Amp;V) services for INS' Service
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Education expands data center outsourcing
The Education Department takes another step closer to completely outsourcing the operation of its mainframe systems this week as it turns over the management of another of its major mainframe systems to Computer Sciences Corp. The 10year, $97 million deal for management of the Central Processing S
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Wireless net boosts shuttle operations
Before the space shuttle Discovery rocketed into space late last month, scores of NASA workers used a wireless computer network to track the thousands of pieces of equipment needed to launch the craft. Using a wireless localarea network built with technology from Intermec Technologies Corp., NASA
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House urges upgrade
The inspector general of the House of Representatives last month released a report that concludes that upgrading computer systems that track information on lobbying activity and congressional members' financial holdings would help eliminate security risks and human error, but advocacy groups said t
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Feds seek IT cure for fire
In trying to determine when to let wildfires run their course and when to put them out, two federal agencies are working together on technology projects to monitor fires and smoke on federal lands. The Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service manage about 450 million acres of land, and each
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