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 <title><![CDATA[AF gets top CMM rating]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Ogden Air Logistics Center's Software Engineering Division is now among the pantheon of software development organizations. Last month the division at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, received the Level 5 Capability Maturity Model designation for its software development work. It is the first government organization to earn the top CMM rating.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Sen. Bennett lauds Clinton's 'call to arms' for 2000]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sen. Robert Bennett praised President Clinton's speech, but warns that agencies must hunker down for the next 17 months. The chairman of the Senate's year 2000 committee praised President Clinton for speaking out on the date code issue but warned that the next coming months are critical.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[USDA research group uses TeleMagic to tap multiple databases]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The USDA agency needed a way to define its customers and their needs, and how to match the two. The Economic Research Service, the 550-employee research and information arm of the Agriculture Department, has found an application to help it serve citizens. Each day, up to 50 ERS employees man the agency's phones, Web site and mail room to answer requests from a large customer base. ERS workers answer a daily]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[PEOPLE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Eugene A. Ludwig has completed a five-year term as comptroller of the currency, and Julie L. Williams, chief counsel for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will take his place. American Systems Corp. of Chantilly, Va., has promoted Henry Gruner to director of submarine programs and Ted Lockhart to program manager of its Trident Engineering Support Services contract. Lockhart will also serve as director of surface combatant programs.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Has Indian Affairs found a silver date code bullet?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[BIA computer specialists Rick Namm and Susan Ellison use Millennium Solution to fix bureau date code. There may not be a silver bullet with which to slay the year 2000 problem, but at least one agency official believes a small company's remediation software comes close.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tripp Lite helps unravel knotty UPS management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pros and cons: + Can monitor any UPS remotely &#150; Software not available separately &#150; Only one UPS monitored at a time Real-life requirements: A Tripp Lite UPS; Windows 95, Windows NT, IBM OS/2, Unix or Novell NetWare Strength without direction is weakness. Having enough uninterruptible power systems for all the computers on your LAN isn't necessarily to protect your data from power failures and fluctuations. You've got to have a way]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds develop freeware app to foil hackers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Shadow combines monitoring with statistical assessment to detect events that filters cannot decode. A consortium of agencies and private organizations has released a free network intrusion detector to combat about 40 types of cyberattacks. The intrusion detection team at the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Dahlgren, Va., primarily developed the Shadow freeware using Energy Department code.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[FAA will do away with paper in its airline safety inspections]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration is upgrading a system that tracks safety violations among the nation's commercial carriers. The new system, which FAA is testing in Honolulu, will let agency inspectors and officials share aircraft inspection and certification documents over an intranet. FAA's Flight Standards Service has 3,500 inspectors working at 110 field offices. The Operations Specifications Subsystem (OPSS) will let inspectors more easily monitor aircraft safety and certify the skills of flight crews and mechanics, said Dick]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Consolidation efforts give Navy leverage]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[GCN: During a recent briefing on the future of IT in the Navy, you didn't once mention the Information Technology for the 21st Century initiative. Is IT-21 still viable? MILLER: It's very much alive. IT-21 as an initiative is not going away, but it's not a program of record. What I'm trying to do is take IT-21, which is a fleet-driven initiative that doesn't consider all of the Navy, and extend it.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Date code work is No. 1 priority]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Education's Pauline Lynch coordinates the collection of data, abstracts, journal articles, dissertations, statistical reports and case histories on educational topics for the Education Resources Information Center database. The Ask ERIC database resides on a 167-MHz Sun Microsystems Ultra HPC 3000 server with 256M of RAM, a 36G hard drive and 30G of RAID storage. Users can visit Ask ERIC on the Web at http://www.aspensys.com/eric. Related articles Major programs Who's In Charge]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Major programs | GCN SNAPSHOT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Information Technology Investment Management&#151;Education's chief information officer works with principal offices, budget planners and other federal agencies to see that the department gets the most for its technology dollars. Staff members manage and evaluate investments in information systems. The IT Investment and Capital Planning Group evaluates and proposes systems and recommends improvements. The group works closely with the IT Investment Review Board, which advises the Office of the Secretary on major investments.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN SNAPSHOT | Education - Who's In Charge]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[| Education Donald Rappaport Chief Information Officer Hazel Fiers Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer Joseph Tozzi Group Leader, Assistive Technology Debra Schweikert Group Leader, Customer Support and Acquisition Assistance Kent Hannaman Group Leader, Information Management Steven Corey-Bey Group Leader, Special Projects Renaldo Harper Group Leader, Technology Services Sally Budd Director, Communications and Quality Assurance]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN SNAPSHOT | Education | TOP CONTRACTORS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[| Education TOP CONTRACTORS (for fiscal 1998, in thousands)]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Getting info out is center's focus]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Library of Education has launched EDPubs, the Education Department's one-stop information center. EDPubs distributes books, magazines, videos, brochures, posters and other documents about Education. It has a searchable database of the department's products and a customer call center for ordering. The emphasis is on exceptional customer service, including quick turnaround times for departmental product requests, department officials said.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Department consolidates its old financial systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Education Department's upgrade and consolidation of three legacy accounting and financial systems, a project that strained the department's budget over the past few years, is finished several months ahead of schedule, Education officials said. The Education Central Automated Processing System (EDCAPS) is composed of three financial packages and is under the supervision of the department's chief financial officer. The system reduces redundancy and lowers the department's staff needs, Education officials said.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[FEMA runs its Web page as a news site]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Starting with this issue, GCN will periodically review government sites on the Web, chronicling new Web management ideas and the technology behind them. Best and worst features + Daily news appears on the front page and on lead pages of several sections. + The local communities library details things such as arson investigation resources.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Webworks - Traffic statistics for May 1998]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Hits: 4.5 million Sessions: 944,000 Site size: About 11,000 pages Unique effort: Home page updated 135 times in June High traffic areas: Main page, tropical storm information section, details on current disasters, picture pages taken with Sony Corp. digital cameras at disaster sites]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[System details]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Server hardware: Dell Computer Corp. PowerEdge 4200 server with single 333-MHz processor RAM: 256M Storage: 20G Operating system: Microsoft Windows NT Web server: Microsoft Site Server Connection: T1 line Application interface: Allaire Corp. Cold Fusion, augmented by Unix perl scripts. Java applications are available in the kids' section. Host: A Washington-area FEMA office Personnel: Technical support from Bell Atlantic Federal Services Webmaster: Dave Wellman of Bell Atlantic Corp. Content manager: Mark Wolfson of FEMA Graphics:]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Breaking news]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS has selected Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., to network 25 geographically dispersed customer service call centers into a virtual call center. The IRS receives about 60 million taxpayer calls a year, 25 million of them between Jan. 1 and April 15. Marilyn Soulsburg, the acting assistant commissioner for customer service, said the IRS needs to improve the efficiency of service to callers.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies are behind in ITMRA conformance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[+ Most agencies include staff from program, IT and financial offices in the capital planning process. &#150; Few agencies have procedures for ensuring senior management participation. Executive-level investment review boards: + Most agencies have adopted investment review boards. &#150; Few have procedures for senior management to monitor approved projects. + Most agencies link capital planning and budgeting. &#150; Only a few agencies have completed reviews of this process. Cost-benefit and risk analyses: + Virtually all of]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[LETTERS TO THE EDITOR]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Call or write to the appropriate editor DiGiorgio denies reported statements Regarding your story on the USS Yorktown [GCN, July 13, Page 1], just for the record: I did not say that the Yorktown was towed into Norfolk. Logic does not allow the combination of the words "self-proclaimed whistle-blower." It may sound good, but there is no such thing.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cartoon By Carl Estes]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[Who will grab a seat?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The contracts for the General Services Administration's Seat Management Program are going to be the most heavily touted buying vehicles in a long time. Charles Self, assistant commissioner of GSA's Information Technology Service, said GSA would put its own dollars behind selling the program and encourage the eight contractors to do the same. I just hope I get a Seat Management mug.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[coming UP]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Take a tour of the front lines. The Aug. 10 GCN Spotlight will look at the daily trials and triumphs of six federal systems managers who work in the trenches, from the General Services Administration to the Navy. Webmasters, hone your page-making talents with authoring tools. The Aug. 10 Buyers Guide will have all the details on packages to build sites.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Government webmasters need lots of wiggle room]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Hey, agency webmasters, are oversight agencies going to start hopping onto your back? The Justice Department recently issued guidance for managers of federal Web sites. The guidelines cover the implementation of the Electronic Freedom of Information Act. Last November was the deadline for implementation of most of the act's provisions. Six particular agencies may wish that Justice had been more prompt in issuing their recommendations; they were sued by the Naderite group Public Citizen for delay]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Should U.S. pledge not to make first cyberstrike?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[During World War II, the United States faced two enemy regimes that deserved to be put down by any means: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Yet neither the militaries of those regimes nor those of the United States and its allies used the terrible chemical weapons that devastated the Western front late in World War I. Such weapons were difficult to use and would have caused severe counterstrikes by the opponents.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Illustration app duel ends in near draw]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Version 5.5: rix and Solaris Current version: NT or Alpha (Mac coming soon) Version 3.5: Irix, HP-UX, Solaris and AIX Overall grade B+ B- Price $325 GSA $82 upgrade GSA $448 NIH ECS2 $225 upgrade GSA Microsoft Windows' Paint function can't always do the job when you need an illustration program. But Adobe Illustrator 7.0 and CorelDraw 8 can daunt even the techno-savvy.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[LAB NOTES]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You make the call. Microsoft Corp. has argued that the Justice Department's antitrust actions are stifling innovation. After working with the new Windows 98, the GCN Lab wonders whether it means innovation or renovation. Some Win98 users that the lab has talked with describe it as the biggest bug fix of all time and express surprise that Microsoft can charge $89 for it.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[FEMA opts to make Windows 98 standard]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Emergency Management Agency has become one of the first agencies to standardize on Microsoft Windows 98 as the operating system for any new PCs it buys. Concern about year 2000 readiness prompted FEMA's Information Technology Policy Branch to approve a plan to buy new PCs with Win98, said Paul L. Alberti, a computer specialist in FEMA's IT Services Unit. The agency's installed PC base, however, will "bite the bullet" and stay with Windows 95,]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Correction]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The speed of the chip is 166 MHz, not 200 MHz.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Graphics app's upgrade caters to Web designers on tight budget]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pros and cons: + Supports most new Web graphical formats, such as PNG and progressive JPEG + Compatible with after-market plug-ins &#150; Some common operations harder than they should be Real-life requirements: Win95 or NT (24M RAM for NT), CD-ROM drive, 65M free on hard drive]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Digital's latest and final notebook line hits a HiNote]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pros and cons: + Solid design, above-average performance and battery life &#150; 7.4-pound weight GCNdex32 scores: Digital Gateway HiNote Solo 745 9100 Floating-point math 4.59 4.93 Integer math 7.95 7.77 Video 6.73 7.08 Small-file access 4.52 4.58 Large-file access 4.70 4.74 CD-ROM access 4.31 4.70]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[SQL Server gets an overhaul]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[C2 security is extremely important, and historically SQL Server has not been C2-certified. Jim Gray, a senior researcher at Microsoft Corp.'s Bay Area Research Center, is the company's database guru and chief scalability architect for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. Besides supporting terabyte databases, Gray said SQL Server 7.0 will have an integrated online analytical processing (OLAP) server and an application programming interface called OLE DB for OLAP.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds eye single sign-ons for full access to network apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal users have a growing need to simplify their password access to dozens of applications, according to industry officials who develop access control software. "Last year it was mostly tire-kicking. This year there are funded, dedicated projects for single sign-on," said Michael McLaughlin, federal sales manager for PassGo Technologies of Boxborough, Mass.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[TECH REFRESH]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense Department and intelligence agencies are the target market for two products Pulsar Data Systems Inc. recently added to its General Services Administration Information Technology Schedule and National Institutes of Health Electronic Computer Store II contracts. The 2in1 TSDNet secure communications switch from Voltaire Advanced Data Security Ltd., an Israeli company, can connect a desktop PC to two Ethernets over a single cable.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies discover tool set to cure development ills]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Program managers at NASA and the National Security Agency recently bought automated tools from Software Emancipation Technology Inc. of Burlington, Mass., to attack some of their most vexing client-server software development problems. The software craft is less than 50 years old, company president Donald Henrich said, and it lacks the structured processes that older engineering disciplines have evolved to handle complexity.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[ENTERPRISE COMPUTING | New Products]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[| New Products IdealScanOS software, which indexes images as it scans them, now works on all Ideal/Context scanners from Ideal Scanners and Systems Inc. of Rockville, Md. The IdealScanOS provides index fields&#151;File Name, Scan ID, Operator Names and Scan Time&#151;and lets users print scanned images directly to a large-image plotter.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Fliers scout with GIS package]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy is installing a geographic information system on notebook PCs in E-2C Hawkeye early warning aircraft to overlay map data on targets in real time. Co-pilots in two Navy squadrons started using the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) Moving Map Tactical Information Display System (JMMTIDS) in late March, said Cmdr. Kevin T. McCarthy of Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Not every agency considers UPS protection a priority]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The gospel of uninterruptible power systems has yet to win converts at all agencies. Early on, data centers installed proprietary UPSes for their mainframes and minicomputers. But most agencies do not routinely connect UPSes to client PCs or servers, although data loss from power problems is 15 times more common than from virus attacks, according to a survey by Contingency Planning Research Inc. of White Plains, N.Y.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Serious about surfing? Try out these browser alternatives, plug-ins]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Faster Internet connections do make a difference for serious Web searches, but software helpers can be even better. Software is easier to acquire and install than, say, buying and setting up an Integrated Services Digital Network link. If you have to wait for what seems like forever to get to hot links, try a browser accelerator. These handy utilities store locally the pages you most recently visited. A browser accelerator's best feature is its ability to]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Software helps create an inventory of network assets]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The NetworkCharter Pro diagramming tool draws all the products on an IP or IPX network and supplies their corresponding addresses. The information lets administrators keep an inventory of PCs, peripherals and servers for year 2000 readiness and other tasks. The package from Micrografx Inc. of Richardson, Texas, gives precise names and other data for Simple Network Management Protocol devices. When the administrator indicates a device on the network, NetworkCharter can link it to specifications in its]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Dolch Computer sells a 400-MHz rugged notebook]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Dolch Computer Systems Inc. has released one of the first ruggedized 400-MHz Pentium II notebook PCs. The MegaPAC-P2 has Intel Corp.'s new 440BX chip set and 100-MHz motherboard bus. It can hold as many as nine full-size ISA/PCI expansion boards. The notebook runs on 120- or 220-volt alternating current or on 160-watt Power Anywhere power supplies or uninterruptible power systems. The 25-pound, shock-mounted unit has an alloy chassis and composite case.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA to decide soon on PC outsourcing protest]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration plans to make a decision tomorrow on an agency-level protest of its Seat Management Program awards. Boeing Information Service Inc. filed the protest July 15. In its protest, the Vienna, Va., company claimed that GSA misled vendors about the criteria it would use in evaluating the Seat Management bids.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Set your sights on smart sites]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Heading into the new millennium, the Internet will evolve into an ever-more sophisticated tool for communications and collaboration, according to industry analysts. Just about everything that can be done on a standalone computer now probably will be fused to the Net. Several emerging technologies have a head start in transforming the Internet over the next few years.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cabletron adds new backbone switch for ATM]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new member of Cabletron Systems Inc.'s SmartSwitch family rounds out the Rochester, N.H., company's asynchronous transfer mode products. The SmartSwitch 6500, designed for data centers and campus backbones, fits between the Model 2500 workgroup and wiring closet switch and the 9500 enterprise switch. The 6500's 10-Gbps ATM switching chassis works at T3 to OC-12 rates.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Combining e-mail from multiple accounts is a very messy process - COMMUNICATIONS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many government employees have e-mail accounts tucked away all over the Internet: perhaps a Novell GroupWise account at work, a NetCom or America Online account at home, and an extra account at http://www.hotmail.com for watching mail lists. It's nice to be so plugged in, but multiple accounts mean lengthy address books at each location. If you want to merge address books or combine message folders, compatibility problems often ensue.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Voice and data traffic travels through the Corporate Communicator over a single private branch exchange digital connection. Users can place, answer, forward, hold and conference calls themselves. A Caller ID feature recognizes incoming calls and brings up a personal information manager to display data about the caller. The network manager can turn on or off all inbound and outbound data and fax traffic for single users or for groups. Compaq resellers price the Corporate Communicator at]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Walter Reed prescribes ATM]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Walter Reed Army Medical Center is replacing its tired and sickly information systems network with a new architecture. At the Washington medical center&#151;the Army's largest&#151;an asynchronous transfer mode network project will give the hospital better speed and fluidity in its information systems, hospital officials said. It will also put more flat-panel displays in patient wards and support as many as 470 X Window terminals, said Capt. Richard J. Gordon, the center's chief information officer.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force recently lifted a six-month ban on creating new blanket purchasing agreements and issued a policy statement on the agreements. Concerned about the unregulated growth of BPAs on General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedules, the Air Force in October 1997 banned the creation of new BPAs until an integrated product team could study the issue. The policy is based on a series of team meetings held in December.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[2000 rollovers. The Army's White Sands Missile Range last month conducted an unusual year 2000 test, which its computer systems passed with flying colors, Army officials said. White Sands, deep in the New Mexico desert, is the Defense Department's premiere test range. The facility relies heavily on computers to measure the performance of missiles and other munitions. This time, however, it tested its own systems.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[An official with a British conservation group alleges that someone using a Navy computer at the Pentagon tried to hack into the group's server. In an e-mail to the media, the group claimed that an unknown user at the Pentagon tried and failed three times to breach a secure link on a Web server used by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society located in Bath, England.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[COLOR laser printers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Laser printers make the grade Most color laser printers are optimized for workgroup service. Within two years, they'll replace high-end color ink-jets in many organizations. Color laser reproduction is adequate for most print jobs. Good printer management software is as important as hardware. Web remote printer management is a good option for large organizations.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Navy hosts exercise without Coalition WAN]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For Rim of the Pacific '98, a monthlong international maritime wargame, navies from six nations are running exercises without the benefit of the Coalition WAN. CWAN is the common coalition backbone that provides real-time collaborative planning, interoperability and connectivity between U.S. and allied forces. Forces set up the secret-level network for each use and dismantle it afterward.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Lew: Don't overdo oversight]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies shouldn't have to report their year 2000 progress as often as Congress might like, said the man nominated to be the next head of the Office of Management and Budget. "The greatest immediate challenge is the year 2000 computer problem," OMB deputy director Jacob J. Lew told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee during his confirmation hearing June 22.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Labor promotes IT programming job openings on Web]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Labor Department's online job bank now has a section exclusively for information technology and year 2000 positions. "The Clinton administration wants to call attention to the Y2K problem and the need for more IT workers," said Jim Vollman, associate assistant secretary in the Employment and Training Administration. Clinton this month announced the America's Job Bank IT program at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. In his speech, Clinton called for the public and private sectors]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[24-26 Managing Information Security Programs Seminar. New York. Contact Michael I. Sobol Training Institute, 498 Concord St., Framingham, Mass. 01702; tel. 508-879-7999. 28 Management Problems of TechnicalPeople in Leadership Roles Seminar. Washington. Contact Fred Pryor Seminars, P.O. Box 2951, Shawnee Mission, Kan. 66201; tel. 800-255-6139. 9-11 Federal Database Colloquium Exposition and conference. San Diego. Contact Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, 4400 Fair Lakes Court, Fairfax, Va. 22033; tel. 703-631-6133. 14 Federal IT Systems]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD raises concerns over possible AT&amp;T, British Telecom deal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A proposed $10 billion global venture between AT&amp;T Corp. and British Telecommunications PLC has raised security concerns about a major Defense Information Systems Network contract held by AT&amp;T, Defense Department officials said. The Defense Information Systems Agency is studying whether the deal would compromise AT&amp;T's $5 billion DISN Transmission Services for the Continental United States contract. AT&amp;T is providing backbone and access area transmission services at bandwidth rates of T1 and higher to DOD facilities in]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[To find time to fix date code, HHS delays other work]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Health Care Financing Administration is 70 percent through rewriting 49 million lines of code, an agency spokeswoman said. HCFA hired retired federal employees to work on the code under a $128 million budget that runs through September, HCFA administrator Nancy-Ann DeParle told the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem last month.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[New Intergraph graphics bundle is a whiz at 3-D apps, company says]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Intergraph Corp. is claiming that its Wildcat 3-D graphics system can perform up to 10 times better than current 3-D desktop systems running Unix or Microsoft Windows NT. The Huntsville, Ala., company announced the graphics package last month at the Siggraph trade show in Orlando, Fla. The performance boost comes by way of the Intense 3-D Wildcat 4100 accelerator chip set and ParaScale architecture, which will be standard in all Intergraph TDZ 2000 ViZual workstations. Users]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Software execs state case for Microsoft antitrust suit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sen. Patrick Leahy says he wonders whether Congress should rewrite antitrust laws. Executives of large and small software companies gathered on Capitol Hill last month to plead again for enforcement of antitrust laws against Microsoft Corp. Mitchell Kertzman, chief executive officer of Sybase Inc., told the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating Microsoft's business practices that Microsoft abuses monopoly power through intimidation and other practices that "should be viewed as violations of the]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[SUFFOLK, Va.&#151;The sign in the lobby of the Joint Training, Analysis and Simulation Center here said it all: "Warning! All Portable Computers and Diskettes Brought Into the Center Must Be Virus-Scanned And Marked." As visitors entered the facility, security guards at the front desk used a scanning station to enforce the edict.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[FTS' Charles Self says sellers have a personal interest in a contract instead of in customer needs. GSA will change that. Just eight months after a major reorganization, the General Services Administration is again tinkering with its Federal Technology Service. This time the effort focuses on streamlining FTS operations.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[President Clinton has appointed Robert Elliot Kahn to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. Kahn, of McLean, Va., is chairman of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives. The presidential committee advises the administration on systems issues, with an emphasis on ways to bolster future systems and communications R&amp;D efforts. Originally formed to focus on high-performance computing and communications, the group has expanded its agenda to other IT topics. It was formerly known as the Advisory Committee on High-Performance]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Rat roars a rallying cry: 'Parts, shmarts&#151;we gotta replace servers!]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The dawn of yet another ozone action day found the Rat sweltering in his server room. When the air conditioning had gone out over the weekend, three servers had stewed in their own juices. The Rat managed to switch the applications over to standby systems but at a lower performance level than the users had accustomed themselves to, and they didn't like it.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Bracing for a rush of fiscal-year-end orders, the Bureau of Prisons and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently negotiated blanket purchasing agreements. The Justice Department's BOP signed BOPNet 2000 BPAs with IntelliSys Technology Corp. and Vanstar Government Systems Inc., both of Fairfax, Va. Under the BPAs, the companies will supply PCs, printers, servers, software and related peripherals, said Ron Williams Sr., BOP's director of ADP contracting.]]></description>
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