Digital Government
INS courts airlines for help tracking foreign visitors
The Immigration and Naturalization Service is considering ways to automate the collection of nonimmigration documents to better track visitors who remain in the United States illegally. INS officials are discussing with various airline executives how the airlines may automate the collection of I9
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NIH considers early follow-on pact
A largerthanexpected volume of sales has prompted the National Institutes of Health to begin early development of a followon contract for its governmentwide virtual computer store. Since appearing on the Internet in January, the 17 vendors who offer PCs, software and peripherals on the NIH Elect
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Amdahl claims SSA contract favors IBM
Amdahl Corp. charged that the Social Security Administration's multimilliondollar mainframe buy unfairly favors IBM Corp. to the exclusion of other bidders. In a prebid protest filed with the General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals earlier this month, Amdahl claimed SSA "virt
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Draft bid due for imaging, workflow wares
The National Institutes of Health plans to release next week a draft statement of work to acquire imaging systems and workflow solutions to control the mountain of paperwork that the agency's institutes, centers and divisions create. NIH plans to award by September multiple taskorder contracts, in
Digital Government
Java to stimulate federal mapping applications
Federal agencies and geographic information systems vendors are exploring how Java, the hot software language for building Internetbased applications, might be used to open GIS to more users and create a new set of applications. "Java's really going to revolutionize how we interact in GIS," said
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Java interest percolates
Java, a software language that is all the rage among Internet users, is still too new to make a big splash in the federal market. But many agencies are exploring how they might benefit from this new concept in network computing. Developed by Sun Microsystems Inc., Java supports a new form of softwa
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HUD sets rules for use of new software
The Department of Housing and Urban Development this year will require state and local governments to use a mapping software to apply for the $7.5 billion HUD doles out every year to support housing and community development programs. The software, called the Consolidated Planning System (CPS), is
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Interior, HHS and GSA jump on HR bandwagon
The Interior Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and the General Services Administration are rushing to upgrade their human resources systems with the hope of selling the new services to other federal agencies. Spurred on by outmoded systems based on 1970s technology, agencies a
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Koskinen and council put the Net to the test
For the past two years, Larry Koskinen has preached the virtues of the Internet and how it will redefine the way government works. Now he has the chance to prove it. Formerly a staff member of Vice President Gore's National Performance Review, Koskinen begins a new job this week as vice president o
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PeopleSoft lands HR deal at DOJ
PeopleSoft Federal last month nabbed a contract to provide offtheshelf human resources software to the headquarters offices of the Justice Department. The contract marks the second federal award for PeopleSoft Federal, a division of PeopleSoft Inc., Pleasanton, Calif. Last fall the Department of
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Clinton to expand computer donations
President Clinton plans to issue an executive order next month that will direct federal agencies to donate millions of dollars worth of surplus computers and peripherals to a wide range of educational organizations and programs, according to White House officials. The order will broaden President B
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Rhoda Davis to retire March 1
Rhoda M.G. Davis, director of the Office of Strategic Management and senior information resources management official at the Social Security Administration, plans to retire March 1. Davis, who assisted in managing major technology upgrades at SSA, will be the second key information technology execu
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Flood data rides Internet wave
As the East Coast battled record floods last month, the U.S. Geological Survey used the Internet to distribute minutesold data about rising rivers to federal, state and local agencies responding to the emergency. The availability of USGS' satellitederived river data on the Internet's World Wide W
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National Computer Center preps for mainframe facelift
The Social Security Administration Last Month Issued A Request For Proposals To Upgrade Mainframes The Agency Uses To Process Everything From Social Security Benefits To Administrative Programs. Under The Mainframe Acquisition Project (Map), The Cost Of Which Should Reach Well Into The Tens Of Mill
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Replacement bill promotes IT, creates `new model' for gov't.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development would be transformed into a much smaller agency that is heavily dependent on information technology under the terms of legislation expected to be introduced this month. The goal of the bill is to get the federal government out of the public housing bu
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Two buys kick off year
The National Institutes of Health is moving on two of four procurements that will replace a controversial computer system and eventually take NIH into distributed computing by fiscal 1997. NIH last month released a request for proposals for a support services contract for the estimated $415 million
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Budget battles may fuel ongoing government IRM brain drain
Agencies yet to receive fiscal 1996 funding were left with skeletal staffs to keep systems up and running last week. But the more damaging longterm impact of the threeweek shutdown may be the departure of disgruntled federal information technology personnel. Information resources management offic
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GTE nabs $200M networking pact
In a move that surprised the information technology vendor community, the Justice Department last month named GTE Government Systems Corp. the apparent winner of an estimated $200 million office automation contract. GTE topped five other vendors to win the sevenyear Justice Consolidated Office Net
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