Digital Government
GAO recommends EC integration
A General Accounting Office report released earlier this month concluded that the mandated Federal Acquisition Computer Network (FACNET) is used infrequently for procurements and recommends that an integrated strategy be developed for using other electronic commerce technologies in addition to FACN
Digital Government
Treasury pitches its e-mail to feds
The General Services Administration and the Treasury Department signed an agreement last month that will permit Treasury to offer messaging services for a fee to other agencies through its Treasury Communications System (TCS).
Digital Government
Mail carriers prep to go wireless
In an ongoing effort to make it more competitive with private carriers the U.S. Postal Service plans to improve its mail tracking and tracing capabilities and delivery performance through two wireless pacts that could top $1 billion. The first procurement estimated to be about $500 million will all
Acquisition
Overhaul of blue pages to help users
The General Services Administration is moving closer to updating government listings in all local telephone books around the country in an effort that should make populating the X.500 governmentwide directory blue pages faster and easier. The goal of the blue pages project is to provide a more user
Digital Government
USDA slaps new moratorium on large buys
The Agriculture Department has frozen all spending on information technology products and services until it develops an agencywide plan for how its IT purchases should be conducted.The moratorium affects all orders over $250 000 from existing IT contracts and the General Services Administration's m
Digital Government
NWS to offer long-term forecasts
The National Weather Service is developing a new system that for the first time will provide longterm river forecasts to better predict the probability of floods and droughts. The Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System (AHPS) will rely on advanced modeling to produce flood and drought forecasts tha
Digital Government
Switches challenge routers
Federal agencies are turning increasingly to switching equipment and less to traditional routerbased networks in their quest to meet users' seemingly boundless appetite for bandwidth according to resellers manufacturers and federal network managers. Although the router market is thriving in the fe
Digital Government
Report suggests GILS, X.500 link
Agency users will find it a lot easier to track down government information if the recommendations are followed from a recent study that suggested connecting two major data systems.
People
Sprint team lands $50M pact to upgrade distance-learning net
The Army's Training and Doctrine Command has awarded Sprint a contract worth nearly $50 million to upgrade its dedicated video distancelearning network in a deal the company says is the largest of its kind in the government. Under the fiveyear Video TeleTraining (VTT) Network contract Sprint and
Digital Government
Signal, Garcia Consulting land $30M award to simplify patent process
The Patent and Trademark Office awarded last month a $30 million contract to Signal Corp. and Garcia Consulting Inc. to provide information research and system development support for patent examiners. Signal and Garcia Consulting will compete for task orders under the Information Research and Faci
People
Survey asks agencies to calculate costs
Spooked by the amount of money agencies may be spending on building and maintaining Internet systems Congress has ordered a governmentwide survey of such costs. The survey which the General Accounting Office sent to agencies Nov. 1 has sparked some fear of a future crackdown on Internet use. Congre
Digital Government
Bay pursues GSA sked
For the first time in many years Bay Networks will hold its own General Services Administration schedule and will appoint and manage agents to sell the company's products to government users. Bay's new GSA schedule program will help the company increase its schedule revenue and take advantage of wh
Digital Government
Sun, EPS team to offer Java-based mail forms
The U.S. Postal Service announced last month that it will work with Sun Microsystems Inc. and Enterprise Productivity Systems Inc. to develop a series of Javabased applications for electronic forms that should save USPS time and money. Under the agreement EPS will make available on USPS' Internet
Digital Government
Bringing computers into the courtroom
If you think a federal judge who deals with highprofile cases involving terrorists and government skullduggery wouldn't have much of an interest in computers think again. Royce C. Lamberth U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia talks as enthusiastically about plans to build the courtroom
Digital Government
Lotus nabs largest software acquisition under DMS
Lotus Development Corp. recently completed the largest software sale to date on the Defense Message System contract a 15 000seat purchase of the Notes DMS product by the Naval Supply Systems Command (Navsup). The acquisition was made under an earlybuy program introduced earlier this year by Loc
Digital Government
Manager forecasts AWIPS success
Mary Glackin modernization systems manager at the National Weather Service remembers heading home as a child from the New Jersey shore with her family caught in the middle of a hurricane that had hit without much warning. That event appears to have been a defining moment for a woman whose career ha
Digital Government
Companies competing for FAS4T
The Administrative Office of the U.S Courts (AOUSC) this month chose Computer Data Solutions Inc.'s Business Applications Solutions Co. and American Management Systems to compete for the right to provide financial management system software in a procurement potentially worth about $20 million over
Digital Government
Hughes snags $27.8 million NOAA pact
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week awarded a contract worth an estimated $27.8 million to Hughes STX Corp. to support the National Weather Service's modernization and restructuring programs. Under the Systems Engineering and Technical Support Services (SETSS) contract Hug
Digital Government
PTO buys despite protests
Three vendors filed protests last month with the General Accounting Office arguing that the Patent and Trademark Office made mistakes in evaluating bids for a $171 million purchase of desktop systems. But in an unusual move PTO officials decided late last month not to suspend the contract and to co
Digital Government
Language caps AWIPS spending
Congress has placed a cap of $525 million on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) and recommended that the Commerce Department delay a decision to deploy the system nationwide until it conducts more operational testing. In conf
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