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Eastman, Microsoft team on Exchange-based workflow
Eastman Software Inc. and Microsoft Corp. last week introduced a suite of workflow and document management tools designed to be used with Microsoft's Exchange email platform. The Work Management for Microsoft Exchange package marks Eastman's entry into the market for ''collaborative'' software use
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Judge's ruling on storage of digital files expected this week
A federal judge may decide this week whether agencies have to evaluate all existing electronic files and decide how long they should be preserved. Despite efforts by the National Archives and Records Administration to craft a shortterm digital records policy, a top NARA official said it is not pra
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Users await results of Tera road test
On the cutting edge of computing, where hardware designers think of their machines as race cars, a new highperformance engine is undergoing a test drive. The experimental computer architecture created by Tera Computer Co., Seattle, promises to solve the most daunting problem of supercomputing toda
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Agencies start to wield past-performance club
Federal agencies have started to wield the pastperformance stick that Congress gave them in information technology reform legislation by using vendors' success rates on previous IT contracts to evaluate bids on pending pacts. One of the more strict pastperformance evaluations in government is the
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Recruits use smart cards for supplies
Army recruits entering basic training at Fort Sill, Okla., this month received smart cards that store copies of their fingerprints to identify them whenever they spend more than $10 to purchase supplies on base. The pilot project, the last of three digitalcash applications being tested at Army bas
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Group issues framework for storing electronic records
A working group examining options for managing federal electronic records late last week issued for public comment a framework for managing digital files over the next two years while the government develops more permanent electronic recordkeeping solutions.
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NIH adds leasing to 3 pacts
The National Institutes of Health has entered the leasing market with plans to add clauses to contracts in its three multipleaward procurement programs that would allow customers to lease computer equipment. Vendors are requesting the clauses, and several vendors have been allowed to add the claus
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NARA guides agencies in digital file disposal
The National Archives and Records Administration told agencies last week that they should make specific plans to preserve or dispose of important electronic records, but plaintiffs who are challenging federal recordkeeping practices in court said the new policy will not protect key digital files. A
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FMS launches trial for digital checks
In a pilot that may help the government meet a mandate to electronically issue all federal payments by next year, the Financial Management Service plans to cut its first electronic check perhaps as early as this week. During the next 18 months, FMS expects to issue as many as 1,000 digital checks p
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NASA, DOE help Ukraine avoid nuclear disaster
The Chornobyl (formerly spelled Chernobyl) nuclear power plant's concrete enclosure, which is the only barrier between Ukrainians and deadly nuclear radiation, is crumbling, and two U.S. federal agencies are involved in a project to build a stateoftheart information technology system to fix it.
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Document management vendor officially enters federal market
Documentum Inc., a leading vendor of software for managing large repositories of electronic documents, formally entered the federal market last week. Based in Pleasanton, Calif., Documentum's offerings include the Enterprise Document Management System, which is designed to allow organizations to ma
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NIH, Friendship Computer settle ECS II complaint
The National Institutes of Health gave Friendship Computer, Rockville, Md., a contract with its $2 billion Electronic Computer Store II program March 9, settling a protest against the agency in which the company charged it had been evaluated unfairly.
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NARA releases interim records-management policy
With a critical court ruling still under review, the National Archives and Records Administration yesterday issued interim guidelines for how agencies should preserve electronic records.
Digital Government
Thousands of federal computers attacked
Tens of thousands of federal government machines fell victim to a nationwide denialofservice attack earlier this week on Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT computers, according to a government emergency response team member.
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Administration revamping Access plan
The Clinton administration is overhauling its strategy for delivering federal services electronically, seeking closer cooperation among agencies, state and local governments and private entities that serve similar constituencies. The new strategy departs from the 'Access America' plan, which the Na
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Court asked to save feds' digital files
Plaintiffs suing the government over its failure to preserve electronic records went back to court last week, charging that agencies have ignored a judge's ruling that they must save their digital files. In a motion filed Feb. 25 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the consumeradvocacy gro
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EPA manager creates environment for data
BOSTON On an afternoon in January, Mike McDougall, information resources manager for the Environmental Protection Agency's New England office, glanced out his 10thfloor office window at the traffic streaming along Boston's elevated Central Artery below. Road crews working on the nation's biggGMT
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Lawsuit challenges feds' right to put data on Web
In a case that could challenge the authority of federal agencies to publish data on the World Wide Web, a former top reviewer of federal regulations has sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its plans to enhance one of its most popular databases on the Internet. Jim Tozzi, a former Office o
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Energy, IBM sign $85M pact for world's fastest computer
The Energy Department signed an $85 million contract with IBM Corp. Feb. 12 to build the fastest computer in the world within the next two years. The pact, under which IBM will produce a supercomputer capable of performing 10 trillion operations per second (10 teraflops), is the newest piece in DOE
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Four vendors win DOE research pacts
Under $50 million in contracts awarded earlier this month by the Energy Department, four vendors will spend the next four years developing the technology to build supercomputers that are 100 times more powerful than any that exist today. As part of the DOE program, Digital Equipment Corp., IBM Corp
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