Digital Government
Cordant's Johnson tapped as Industry Advisory Council chair
After several months of bruising conflict, Industry Advisory Council (IAC) members elected Kenneth Johnson of Cordant Inc. as their new chairman, on a promise of reconciliation with the organization's government partners. IAC's previous board of directors became embroiled in a dispute over financia
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GSBCA looks to its ADR role
Aiming to play a continuing role in resolving disagreements between information technology vendors and federal users, the General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals plans to issue today a notice of its intent to offer alternative disputeresolution (ADR) services. Although Congress
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Proposal would establish PBO status
The Federal Supply Service is working on a proposal that would establish it as a Performance Based Organization (PBO), exempting it from regulations it believes hinder it from buying equipment and supplies at the lowest cost for federal agencies. FSS commissioner Frank Pugliese said his proposal wo
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N.E.T. introduces frame-relay products
N.E.T. Inc. hopes to improve its standing in the framerelay market with a new set of products that will reduce the perport cost of frame relay over the company's IDNX switch by 50 percent. Sandy Orlando, N.E.T.'s manager of internetworking products, said the company has developed an entirely new
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GSA, Hill at odds over Post-FTS 2000 contract
With just two months to go before a planned August solicitation, an escalating dispute between congressional lawmakers and the General Services Administration has thrown into doubt the future of the followon contract to the governmentwide FTS 2000 longdistance network. GSA's Federal Telecommunica
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DOD overspends on phone bills
The Defense Department could save more than $3.5 million a month on longdistance phone bills by switching voice traffic from an AT&T DODspecific contract to the company's FTS 2000 network, according to the General Accounting Office. The GAO study was ordered by Sen. Bob Kerrey (DNeb.), ranking m
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Cabletron adds ATM with ZeitNet buy
Cabletron Systems Inc. will offer federal customers a broader range of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) products following its acquisition of ZeitNet Inc., a network access provider.
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Group prepares first open election
The Industry Advisory Council (IAC), with the public spat between it and the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils (FGIPC) apparently over, last week prepared for its first open elections
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Fore tackles 25-megabit/sec ATM
Fore Systems Inc., the leader in 155 megabit/sec desktop Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) installations in the federal government, last week unveiled its first 25 megabit/sec product. Company officials hope the new switch will attract users of PCs and lowerend workstations. Jeffrey White, product
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Revamped rules unleash buying frenzy
Vendors holding General Services Administration Schedule B/C contracts are reporting record sales in the usually slow months of March and April, as agencies place multimilliondollar orders that were previously prohibited.
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Navy inks $98.6M sked deal
The Naval Information Systems Management Center (NISMC) late last month signed an ordering agreement worth up to $98.6 million with AmeriData Federal Systems that appears to be the largest ever deal off the General Services Administration's Schedule B/C.
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FTS, RBOCs join forces to overhaul federal listings
The General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications Service is working with regional Bell operating companies nationwide to redesign the structure of federal listings in local telephone books and to include electronicmail addresses. FTS commissioner Bob Woods said the redesign will ma
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Sprint to offer ATM to NASA on FTS 2000
ATLANTA Apparently succeeding where its chief competitor failed, representatives from Sprint's Government Systems Division said last week they have negotiated a deal to offer Asynchronous Transfer Mode capability to NASA on the FTS 2000 network. Intense negotiations between Sprint, the General S
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Plan puts all employees on the Net by summer
The General Services Administration plans to make the Internet available to every one of its 15,000 employees by this summer, claiming it is the first federal agency to put every worker, regardless of grade, into cyberspace. In one of his first messages to GSA employees this month, acting administr
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Sprint to cut its rates
The General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications Service last week struck a deal with Sprint to decrease its rates on FTS 2000 and save an estimated $86 million over the remainder of the contract. John Okay, deputy commissioner of FTS, said those savings are in addition to an estima
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Firm adds PC front ends to mainframe apps
Network Software Associates Inc., a 12yearold, Arlington, Va., government contractor specializing in SNA gateway products, has expanded its offerings to include PCbased graphical user interfaces (GUIs) designed to let mainframe applications run in Microsoft Corp. Windows environments. The compan
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House rethinks GAO overhaul
The leadership of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee has begun to rethink its plans to restructure the General Accounting Office, in light of recent testimony opposing some aspects of the committee's draft legislation. A committee staff member said the most controversial recommenda
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Clinger, Horn ask GSA to pare Post-FTS 2000
Key members of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee this month asked acting General Services Administration chief David Barram to reduce the duration of the PostFTS 2000 contract from 10 to three years and to prohibit companies that win the contract from offering local services. The
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Stillman removes six from board
Neil Stillman, president of the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils (FGIPC), last week succeeded in his attempt to remove six FGIPC board members who opposed his recent moves against the Industry Advisory Council (IAC), setting the stage for a potentially rancorous FGIPC annual
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Current rules hamper states' FTS 2000 use
A representative from Maryland's House of Delegates last month contacted General Services Administration chief David Barram about the state's potential use of the FTS 2000 contract but was later told that GSA lacks the authority to offer longdistance services to state and local governments. Delega
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