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New preference policy may change little
Changes announced to federal affirmativeaction policies last week may not spark more business for minorityowned firms, according to agencies and industry. The Clinton administration's new policy extends governmentwide a program authorized for the Defense Department, NASA and the Coast Guard that
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NARA floats plan for storing records about IT systems
A draft proposal from the National Archives and Records Administration would establish set lengths of time for maintaining records about the development, operation and maintenance of federal information systems throughout the government. The plan, which is modeled after an information technology re
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NARA circulates draft records management plan
The National Archives and Records Administration has begun to circulate a plan for managing the government's digital documents, but the plan lacks a clear policy that information technology managers and records management experts deem critical to solving their recordkeeping problems. A draft policy
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NARA circulates governmentwide draft records plan
Federal agencies would have until early next year to devise a plan for maintaining, preserving or disposing of their electronic records or at least have a timetable for doing so according to a draft electronic records policy being circulated governmentwide.
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SGI/Cray system lowers vector computing cost
Silicon Graphics Inc./Cray Research last week unveiled a new supercomputer based on its popular vector technology that is designed to provide users of its earlier, proprietary Cray computers with a migration path toward future systems built from commodity parts. The Cray Scalable Vector 1 (SV1), in
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DOE calls for upgrade to Los Alamos super
The Energy Department has launched a $65 million upgrade of a supercomputer that is used to monitor the nation's nuclear stockpile, and the agency was expected to begin installation last week of a new machine that is capable of 3 trillion floating point operations per second at Los Alamos National
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IRS to merge 11 data centers into 2 sites
The Internal Revenue Service plans to move forward this month with the merger of 11 data centers into two sites that will handle 3 trillion mainframe transactions annually. As one of the largest mainframe consolidation efforts in the federal government and possibly in the world, the project will up
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GAO wraps IRS' Y2K contingency plans
In a report issued June 15, the General Accounting Office said the Internal Revenue Service, like other agencies, needs to develop better contingency plans to guard against the possible failure of its computer systems in 2000.
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House panel matches $2.25B Y2K funding
A House Appropriations subcommittee voted June 11 to set aside $2.25 billion in emergency funding for civilian agencies to pay for century date fixes in fiscal 1999. The Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Subcommittee also said agencies that are in danger of not having their computer s
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USAID picks CSC for Y2K fix, gear
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), one of a few agencies that are the furthest behind schedule in fixing computers for the Year 2000 problem, last month awarded a $192 million task order to Computer Sciences Corp. to make millennium date repairs to its legacy systems and otherwise modernize its information systems.
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Retired programmers lured back by Y2K work
When Thomas Copfler retired from his job as a computer specialist with the National Finance Center (NFC) in New Orleans six months ago, he planned to build a house on 10 acres of land that he had bought in Amite City, La., and to grow blueberries and day lilies.
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Clinton calls for more IT research funding
President Clinton said Friday that he plans to ask for significant increases'' in the federal budget for computing and communications research and that the Office of Science and Technology Policy is developing the plan.
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Customs improves system to track drug smugglers
During the next six months, the Customs Service plans to complete a threeyear, $17 million upgrade to the computers it uses to track airplanes flown by suspected drug smugglers, creating what the agency claims is the most modern air surveillance system in the country. The Domestic Air Interdiction
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Lights out for original 'fastest super'
The lights will go out on a piece of computing history May 29 when the California Institute of Technology pulls the plug on the first scalable parallel supercomputer to earn the title of fastest in the world. Built by Intel Corp. as a prototype seven years ago, mostly with federal funds, the 512pr
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SMS unveils e-mail management package
SMS Data Products Inc., McLean Va., last week introduced an email management application focused on storing the millions of messages agencies send and receive daily. Unveiled last week at the Special Interest Group on CD Applications and Technology conference in Baltimore, the package bundles soft
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Records management goes commercial
ANAHEIM, Calif. Seven months after a federal judge spurred agencies to start accounting for their electronic records, records management solutions are hitting the software mainstream. Here at the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) '98 trade show last week, vendors began showc
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New products make images and info more manageable
ANAHEIM, Calif. Vendors at the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) '98 trade show last week introduced a slew of products covering every aspect of information management, from document capture and workflow solutions to handwriting recognition software. The following is a round
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Agencies, 8(a)s now can negotiate pacts directly
In an effort to make contracting with socially and economically disadvantaged firms more competitive with schedule purchases and indefinitedelivery, indefinitequantity contracts, the Small Business Administration said last week it will stop acting as the middleman for agencies' 8(a) buys. Federal
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Curran Data Technologies nabs Army records contract
Curran Data Technologies Inc. will digitize 4.3 million pages of Army personnel records over the next year under a contract with the U.S. Army Enlisted Records and Evaluation Center, Indianapolis.
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SBA cuts out contracting middleman
Federal agencies may now contract directly with socially and economically disadvantaged firms in the Small Business Administration 8(a) program, according to an agreement SBA signed May 4 with 25 other agencies.
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