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 <title><![CDATA[Flying Pickle]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I fly a lot. I've got about a million miles in my frequent flyer accounts. Sometimes my suits take on that vague kerosene smell you notice inside jets. And I've spent many an hour bumping around in pea soup at night trying to land in crowded places like Boston or Los Angeles.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD news briefs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Abraxas Software in Portland, Ore., has released a package of computer language tools aimed at designers of military field programmable systems. Known as MIL-LANG 6.0, the package includes mechanisms for integrating applications written in Ada, VHDL and Fortran-90. Field programmable systems make it easier to reconfigure software on military equipment by using standard and more flexible and computer languages. MIL-LANG 6.0 is available in versions for Microsoft Windows 95, Windows NT, IBM OS/2, Macintosh and]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hill holds off on IT reforms until autumn]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Changes in how the government buys computers are likely to be included in a broader, governmentwide procurement reform, not in the plan proposed by Sen. William Cohen, House and Senate staff members speculated last week. The Senate has adjourned for its summer recess, postponing final action on the fiscal 1996 Defense authorization bill. The Maine Republican succeeded attaching his Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995 to that bill before lawmakers left town earlier this]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA moves IT policy offices from IT Service into new unit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After more than a decade of shaping the government's IRM landscape, the General Services Administration's Information Technology Service is getting out of the systems procurement policy-making business. GSA Administrator Roger Johnson has drafted plans for incorporating ITS' policy functions into a new Office of Governmentwide Planning, Policy and Leadership.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[NT is Posix-compliant, GSBCA decides; ruling raises questions]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[All operating systems certified as Posix-compliant ought to be equal. But some, as George Orwell might say, are more equal than others. A recent ruling by the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals affirmed the Posix compliance of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT operating system. Several months ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology certified NT as complying with the Posix standard, Federal Information Processing Standard 151-2 for open operating systems. However, C3 Corp.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Postal Service gives digital signatures a dry run in-house]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Through the award of a small contract to create electronic forms, the Postal Service hopes to learn a thing or two about digital signatures. Under a $692,000 contract, the service will use software from F3 Software Corp. to automate hundreds of paper forms used internally by the service. The electronic forms will bear digital signatures that meet the federal Digital Signature Standard issued by the Commerce Department last year.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Celebris GL for Win95]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[This Thursday, we'll witness the birth of Microsoft Windows 95, an operating system that's already too big for its britches. At least half our current Windows PCs just can't handle it. Win95 is feature-rich, graphically powerful and easier than its Windows 3.1x predecessors. To exploit it, a PC needs Plug and Play capability, true-color video at fairly high resolution and a bus architecture wide enough to shuttle lots of data fast. You can run Win95]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[White House retreats on clipper mandate]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Cementing the Clinton administration's retreat from a centrally imposed encryption policy, a new joint defense-civilian board has pledged to accommodate a mix of commercial and federal methods for protecting electronic transactions. "This administration is not going to come out and say you have to use this or that product" to conduct electronic business with the government, said Deane Erwin, a co-chairman of the Security Infrastructure Program Management Office (SI-PMO) and director of materiel and logistics]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[First Stetson Awards honor six of the Trail Bosses who rode herd on a wild bunch ofIRM acquisitions]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA["No news is good news" is a saying clearly understood by the winners of the first Trail Boss Stetson Awards. The six federal information technology procurement managers honored this month know that when things go right, they won't be in the public eye. With systems buys, "the success measure comes far, far after the program award," said speaker George Coulbourn, vice president of Boeing Information Services.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The PC makers won't make you wait for Win95]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The imminent release of Microsoft Windows 95 has PC manufacturers hustling to preload it with Windows 3.x, so that buyers can choose which one to install. A few PC makers, including Dell Computer Corp., plan to list Win95 PCs on their General Services Administration schedules by mid-September. Dell, Advanced Digital Systems Inc. and other makers with flexible, build-to-order manufacturing processes have begun accepting government orders for Win95 PCs.]]></description>
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