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DOE's supercomputer man
Gil Weigand, the Energy Department's deputy assistant secretary for strategic computing and simulation since 1996, has been thinking big for more than two decades. In the early 1970s, before supercomputers had even been invented, Weigand chose to pursue his doctorate in engineering at Purdue Univer
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U.S. Mint changes old software for new Coins
The U.S. Mint last week unveiled an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that replaces three antiquated financial management and order tracking systems with a complete suite of products from PeopleSoft Inc.
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NARA OKs DOD records plan
The National Archives and Records Administration last week endorsed a Defense Department standard for electronic recordkeeping systems for use governmentwide, giving civilian agencies for the first time an officially sanctioned framework to build digital records management applications.
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Trade system gathers international support
Members of the international trade community earlier this month threw their support behind a U.S. government plan to build a $256 million computer system for processing imports and exports. The International Trade Data System ultimately would link 350,000 businesses with 104 U.S. federal agencies t
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Super Web tool rescues GILS
A group of federal agencies and vendors are creating a super World Wide Web crawler and search tool that would help agencies automatically index their electronic documents and make it easier for the public to find federal information. The software, called the Advanced Search Facility, is being deve
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DOE seeks super CPU funding
The Clinton administration is considering an Energy Department proposal to invest up to 100 times more money over the next five years in highperformance computers to process complex computer models. DOE Undersecretary Ernest Moniz outlined the Scientific Simulation Initiative (SSI) last week at th
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Lotus nabs two mega Notes buys
The installed base for Lotus Development Corp.'s messaging and groupware product recently expanded, as two federal agencies began rolling out the software to tens of thousands of users. The Environmental Protection Agency will deploy Notes to cover 26,000 email addresses, and the Army Battle Comma
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NARA floats electronic records plan
According to a new draft policy distributed throughout the government last month by the National Archives and Records Administration, agencies should decide whether to keep their electronic records based on their need for the documents, a policy similar to how agencies now make decisions about reta
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Panel backs GILS for data sharing
A study produced for an intergovernmental group last month backed a controversial online indexing system as the best available solution for coordinating government information and federal, state and local services. The study suggested that the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) could pro
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Feds ask court for relief on storing electronic docs
The government asked last week for a reprieve from a court order requiring federal agencies to account for their electronic records. In a motion filed in U.S. District Court, the Justice Department asked Judge Paul Friedman to 'partially stay,' or at least modify, an order that demands agencies sta
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Excalibur digitizes GSA pay info
The General Services Administration has purchased a searchandretrieval engine from Excalibur Technologies Corp. that will make it possible to automate the distribution of payroll information and, eventually, customer billing on the World Wide Web. Excalibur's RetrievalWare, like other Internet se
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Agencies struggling with maintaining electronic records
Federal agencies, including the agency in charge of government recordkeeping, are not ready to account for and maintain email and word processing files as ordered by a federal court, said National Archives and Records Administration Archivist John Carlin on Monday.
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Creating virtual meeting rooms
For a hardware and software investment of less than $1 million, NASA is using collaborative computing tools to transform the way it works. During the past two months, the space agency has switched on a roomful of the latest collaboration tools in each of its 10 research centers, providing scientists throughout the country with the means to meet online.
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EPA opens floodgates on water-quality data
For more than three decades, comprehensive data about water quality has been locked inside an Environmental Protection Agency mainframe, accessible only to researchers with the expertise to query it. But that will change as the EPA updates the systems, which are a major source of information about the condition of the nation's waterways.
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Senate to OK GPO bill; House wary
With the clock running out on legislation that would reform how the government maintains public access to its print and electronic documents, feverish negotiations by a Senate committee appear to have mollified many opponents who had been working to delay and effectively kill the bill. However, opp
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GAO to study electronic recordkeeping
Concerned that the government's recordkeeping rules may be outmoded, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee this summer asked the General Accounting Office to study how information technology affects records management. In a letter sent to GAO in midJuly, Sen. Fred Thompson (RTenn.), who heads
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Connecting the dots
The National Cancer Institute soon will launch a project that uses digital mapping technology available on the market today to develop applications with an unprecedented capability to help researchers find links between cancer and environmental and social factors. The pact, to be awarded as early a
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Interagency panel reviews recordkeeping policy
An interagency committee working on a new policy for preserving federal electronic records plans to suggest ways that agencies can set priorities for cataloging their digital files. The decision, reached at a meeting of the Electronic Records Work Group last month, is in response to comments from g
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Spirit of GILS drives DOT search engine
When a government watchdog group singled out the Transportation Department last month for failing to make its information easily available to the public, Crystal Bush, an information technology program analyst, thought her department's efforts were worth a second look. The report by OMB Watch said
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Customs will use StarLive for broadcast
The Customs Service will use new video streaming technology from Starlight Networks Inc., to broadcast live over the Internet a briefing on a system for collecting information from importers. The briefing, planned for Sept. 3, will be distributed over the Internet at the same time it is broadcast b
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