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FCW@20: Worn down from budget battle
IRM officials said they fear that many of their staff members, tired of being caught in the middle of the budget battle, may look for jobs in the private sector.
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Designing the Virtual Statehouse
Have you ever wondered why state capitols have domes? Or why some bank entrances are flanked by tall columns? Over time, architects have crafted elaborate codes for designing city structures and spaces.
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California firm projects agencies into 3-D Worlds
Worlds Inc. is helping the U.S. Information Agency and the National Park Service develop online 3D environments designed to make searching for information electronically a little more like visiting a library or touring a park. Worlds San Francisco specializes in the field of multiuser networked v
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NASA executive keeps mission operations flying high
Dolly Perkins sits in her office and quietly describes the electric feeling of suspense that envelops NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center during a launch. Walking down the hall, 'you can feel people are very intent,' Perkins said. 'They can be very anxious. If you're in the control room, there's ten
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IBM snares $93M ASCI pact for machine at Livermore
Silicon Graphics says it is onboard with DOE too IBM last week won a $93 million contract with the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to build a supercomputer capable of processing 3 trillion to 4 trillion calculations per second. The award is part of DOE's Accelerated Stra
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Search high-court cases or catch the buzz at the HIVE
You can read a selection of recent and past decisions of the Supreme Court on a World Wide Web service maintained by Cornell University at http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/supct.table.html. Visitors to the site especially those more fluent in legalese than in computer code will be relieved to f
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Informix, Netscape, BTG team on servers
BTG Inc., Informix Software Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp. have announced a strategic alliance to compete in a growing federal market for highpower Internet server solutions. The trio is assembling software packages for developing highcapacity World Wide Web sites that can store and serve
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SEWP to reopen for non-NASA buyers
NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement (SEWP) contract, one of the most popular agencywide vehicles for Unix workstations, peripherals and networking gear, will reopen to nonNASA customers as early as this week. The General Services Administration closed SEWP to nonNASA agencie
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Pictures from Galileo are over the moon
Gaze at the aweinspiring images of the Jupiter moon Ganymede made available by NASA at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo. The site, which gives an ongoing account of Galileo's voyages through space, also brings to light images of the Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 and its spectacular crash into Jupiter. Nex
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Panel sets sights on infrastructures
Securing the nation's critical infrastructures including the national telephone and computer networks from attack will be the task of a new presidential commission. The commission, formed last week by executive order, will be staffed mainly with representatives of law enforcement and Defense ag
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NARA draft report calls for more fed involvement up front
A draft strategic plan issued by the National Archives and Records Administration calls for increased involvement in the 'frontend' design of federal agencies' recordkeeping systems. 'We see ourselves in the future providing more attention to the life cycle's front end, where record systems are d
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Raptor and Milkyway add security features
Aiming to help managers secure networks that are adding more Internet users all the time, two leading network security companies are releasing product upgrades to make security management easier. With the latest announcements, Raptor Systems Inc., Waltham, Mass., and Milkyway Networks Corp., Ottawa
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GATEC system orphaned again
With only six months left to comply with the president's electronic commerce mandate, the Energy Department is banking on an EC solution developed and now abandoned by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. As its agencywide solution for EC, DOE has chosen the Government Acquisition Through El
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Commerce plans panel on key use
The Commerce Department will form an advisory committee to set up a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) to support the development of a federal key management infrastructure, another important step toward realizing a recent White House plan for a key escrow encryption infrastructure. 'Th
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New encryption plan to be tested in federal pilots
Vice President Al Gore last Friday announced a plan to encourage the widespread use of encryption that can be decoded by law enforcement with a court warrant. The move clarifies the emerging outlines of a new administration encryption policy. The vice president also announced that federal agencies
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Training spells Doom for Marines
You know the government is serious about commercial offtheshelf software when the popular video game Doom becomes a training tool for the Marines. Point your Web browser to http://138.156.15.33/doom/doom.html to access the Marine Doom home page. A project of the Marine Corps Modeling and Simulati
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RFP for COTS financial system hits the streets
As part of its highprofile effort to streamline and consolidate its hardware, software and network systems throughout the agency, NASA has released a request for proposals for its planned Integrated Financial Management Project. The RFP follows the agency's decision last year to dump the NASA Acco
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Infrastructures, encryption and education on the World Wide Web
The draft of the Government Services Information Infrastructure (GSII) Plan, developed by a working group of the Government Information Technology Services Board (GITSB), is online at http//www.er.doe.gov/production/octr/mics/gsiiplan.html. The plan, open for comment from government and nongover
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DOE leads outsourcing trend
A draft solicitation for a fiveyear, $600 million telecommunications contract at the Energy Department, one of the first examples of a developing outsourcing trend, was published at the end of June. The Telecommunications Integrator Services (Telis) contract will provide complete integration servi
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DISA taps Netscape Navigator for DII
Planning to make World Wide Web technology a key component of the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII), the Defense Information Systems Agency last week announced it has purchased 180,000 copies of Netscape Communications Corp.'s Navigator 2.0 browser. DISA purchased the browsers for $3.3 milli
