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Netscape unveils its blueprint
Netscape Communications Corp. last week announced plans for its nextgeneration client and server software products the springboard for the company's leap into the networked enterprise market. The products could help federal agencies access applications across different hardware and operating syste
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NIST issues standard for authentication
The National Institute of Standards and Technology last month published a new federal standard for authentication technology that is designed to extend agencies' use of digital signatures. The new Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 196 titled 'Entity Authentication Using Public Key Cryp
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AMS, KPMG, Lockheed vie for NASA deal
NASA has narrowed the field to three vendors for a 15year contract that will provide an agencywide integrated core financial management system using commercial software packages. The project is thought to be among the first in the federal government to integrate systems supporting various financia
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Cisco alliance seeks interoperability, lower integration costs
Cisco Systems Inc. has formed an industry alliance with seven other information technology companies to mesh security products and standards into an interoperable enterprise framework. Alliance members include Cylink Corp. HewlettPackard Co. Microsoft Corp. Oracle Corp. RSA Data Security Inc. Secu
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NASA adopts firewall plan
Battered by hacker attacks on its home page NASA will move all its publicaccess servers outside of an agencywide firewall designed to protect sensitive internal networks. When the new security architecture is in place NASA employees no longer will have open access to the World Wide Web they will b
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Feds to test security of transactions
The General Services Administration this month kicks off a yearlong test of an encryption project that it hopes will eventually allow participants to conduct secure transactions with the government from personal computers or public kiosks.
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V-ONE launches its new federal division
VONE Corp. launched a federal division to hone its focus on the government security products market and solidify relationships with integrators. The Rockville Md.based company announced last week the formation of VONE Government Systems which will be headed by Ken Newcomer formerly director of b
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Web shows IT specs, reinvention ventures
The country's largest network of government and industrial standards went live last week providing online access to more than 70 000 development and manufacturing standards including a large chunk devoted to information technology standards for government and privatesector users. Don't expect
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DOD crafts rules for electronic records
The Defense Department has released a final draft version of functional requirements for recordsmanagement software that within months could become official DOD policy and a governmentwide standard requiring federal agencies to store official electronic files and electronic mail. The Feb. 14 draft
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Texas AG probes Microsoft
The controversial decision at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) to move to an allWindows environment may fuel the antitrust investigation of Microsoft Corp. now under way by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas. The Texas AG's office requested documents from JSC as part of its larger antitr
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FCC ruling could boost wireless development
The Defense Department plans to remove the government key escrow software from its Fortezza cards used on the Defense Message System a move that signals the death of the Clinton administration's controversial Clipper initiative and one that should encourage civilian use of the cryptographic cards.
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Hartmanis sees beauty in applying hard science to life
Juris Hartmanis likes to imagine showing the Pentium chip to John Von Neumann the famed Princeton University scientist whose 1950s weatherforecasting machine filled up his entire basement. 'I think it would totally blow the mind of a firstrate scientist of the '50s or '60s if he would not have wa
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DOD sinks the Clipper
The Defense Department plans to remove the government key escrow software from its Fortezza cards used on the Defense Message System a move that signals the death of the Clinton administration's controversial Clipper initiative and one that should encourage civilian use of the cryptographic cards.
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Labs seek vendor input on ASCI project
Three national laboratories this month asked computer manufacturers and integrators to offer advice on how to structure a multimilliondollar project that will boost supercomputing speeds by 1 000 times what is now available. The Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories jointl
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Firewall vendors fight off hostile applets
SAN FRANCISCO Six of the world's largest firewall vendors some with significant presence in the federal market have partnered with a Santa Clara Calif.based security startup to incorporate technology that defends against hostile Java applets into their various products. CheckPoint Software Tech
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Sleuths in cyberspace
In his inaugural address last month President Clinton touted the phenomenal development of the Internet which he described as the 'mystical province of physicists' only 10 years ago. Indeed the Clinton administration through its National Performance Review and other projects has used the Internet t
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EPA buys monitoring software
In an uncommon move to secure its distributed networks agencywide the Environmental Protection Agency has purchased a software package to monitor and manage information security policy at more than 100 sites. The EPA plans to install Axent Technologies Inc.'s OmniGuard/Enterprise Security Manager (
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Apple gains tech, agency customers in Next deal
With its acquisition of Next Software Inc. Apple Computer Inc. will be gaining more than a source of operating system technology the company also will inherit Next's blooming federal division which has doubled revenue in the past year with a bevy of agency customers.
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10 Web sites take top honors for superlative NII offerings
Ten World Wide Web sites, including one government site, were chosen last month as winners of the 1996 National Information Infrastructure Awards.
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INDUSTRY WATCH
Navy awards workstation BPAs for Digital, HP, Sun wares A s expected, late last month the Navy established blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) for workstations and servers from Digital Equipment Corp., HewlettPackard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. The Tactical Advanced ComputerJoint Workstation BPA
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