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Unisys wins $200 million network job on SEWP
Unisys Corp. is the sole winner of the $200 million networking portion of NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement II awarded late last month. Under SEWP II Unisys will provide Asynchronous Transfer Mode switches routers hubs telemetry systems network management software network in
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Presidential candidates use Web as forum for platforms
Despite Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole's bumble while plugging his World Wide Web page during the first presidential debate this month the Dole campaign's home page has been a popular stopover for those wishing to get more information on the former senator and his policy positions.Accordi
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FedCIRC emerges to halt leaks
To help stem an exploding number of computer security breaches the first governmentwide computer security response team begins offering this week services to civilian agencies. The Federal Computer Incident Response Capability (FedCIRC) part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology wi
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Netscape bids to dominate fed intranets
Netscape Communications Corp. which has dominated the federal browser market with its Navigator product has revamped both its browser and client/server products as part of a move to capture part of the blooming intranet market. The company's newest browser dubbed Communicator has integrated Naviga
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Protest delays $50M NYMA award
NASA's Langley Research Center was slapped with a second protest on a oneyear $50 million services contract awarded to NYMA Inc. Greenbelt Md. Work under Langley's Systems Analysis and Engineering Research Support (SAERS) contract has been delayed until the protest filed Oct. 11 with the General A
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Cray eyes new DOE performance levels
Cray Research Inc. last week won a $110 million contract with the Energy Department's Los Alamos National Laboratory to build the world's fastest supercomputer to simulate underground nuclear testing. Cray's fouryear contract is the third award under DOE's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiativ
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Nine companies to share $1.8B SEWP II contract
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center last week selected nine winners for the fouryear $1.8 billion followon to the popular Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement. Open to the entire government SEWP II will provide up to 34 000 Unix workstations peripherals and networking components. Of
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Hackers attack CIA home page
The CIA Web site breakin early Thursday morning came only hours after the Senate passed a bill designed to crack down on computer crimes by hackers. Hackers apparently affiliated with a Swedish group changed the name of the intelligence agency to the 'Central Stupidity Agency ' altered links to se
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Draft policy would treat Web info as fed records
Agencies will have to treat all information posted to their World Wide Web sites as federal records and establish oversight bodies to manage sites and control content according to an early draft release of Office of Management and Budget guidelines obtained by FCW. The guidelines prepared in July a
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NASA systems fight Western blazes
As forest fires ravaged Western states last month NASA tested two information technology systems that could improve firefighting strategies by providing realtime data on the location and movement of wildfires. Last month NASA launched the $6 million Satellite Telemetry and Return Link (StarLink) s
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