Digital Government
Internet site boosts bookstore's federal biz
Computer Literacy (Bookshops + Online) an online and retail bookstore for computer professionals has added purchasing options to its online site to make it easier for large government buyers to use the store. The Sunnyvale Calif.based bookseller has more than 20 000 books and technical manuals ava
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Asymetrix pitches sea-faring CBT solution to Navy
A symetrix Corp. recently made its third overture this year to capture a larger portion of the Defense Department computerbased training market by demonstrating that the company's CBT products can be used in real time by even the most remote of military users: sailors aboard ships at sea. The rece
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Feds, states agree to Year 2000 interfaces
PITTSBURGH Information technology officials last week hunkered down here to decide how to develop Year 2000 interfaces between federal and state computer systems sidestepping tough issues such as the hefty cost for fixing state computer programs and the portion of that bill the federal government
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Police Get Back on the Beat With 'COPS MORE' Funding
The Clinton administration's plan to put 100,000 additional police officers on U.S. streets by 2000 is generating some healthy technology funding opportunities for local law enforcement agencies
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Missouri Schools Activate EC 'Buy Board'
Missouri Schools Activate EC 'Buy Board'
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New Technology and Business in the Civic Sector
New GIS Software Increases Ease and Accuracy of Property Maps The geographic information system (GIS) software industry is becoming increasingly specialized toward the needs of state and local government users.
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Bridging the Gap Between Citizens and City Decision-Makers
During a computer simulated drive over a new design for San Francisco's Bay Bridge, elected city officials gasped as they accelerated over an incline into a panoramic view ofblue sky.
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Healthy Technology Options for State and Local Health Care Agencies
Laura Larsson gave up hope long ago that the public health nutritionists she helps train would get access anytime soon to the technology necessary to mine the wealth of health information now on the Internet. '
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CIO crusades for equal federal and industry payscales
Amid mounting rumors that he will soon leave his post as chief information officer at the General Services Administration Joe Thompson stops short of confirming any immediate plans to retire. But he will look you right in the eye and say he has had offers from industry offers that pay far better
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Aldmyr pitches travel package to fed agencies
Government travelers frustrated by the administrative lead time often associated with booking flights might find relief through a new version of a travelplanning software package aimed exclusively at the federal sector. Aldmyr Systems Inc. Lanham Md. recently released Version 4.0 of PerDiemAzing w
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OPM rethinks strategy for retirement system
After abandoning a nearly decadeold effort to develop a computer system to manage the federal government's retirement systems the Office of Personnel Management last month completed a review of what services a revamped system should support. OPM undertook the review this past spring months after i
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New Technology and Business in the Civic Sector
The (3D) Streets of Philadelphia Virtual reality is starting to transform City Hall. Bentley Systems Inc. an Exton Pa.based engineering software firm made a prototype of 'ModelCity Philadelphia ' an interactive 3D software model of the city
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Gateway taps small biz as GSA supplier
In a departure from its almostexclusive practice of dealing directly with government customers Gateway 2000 Inc. has decided to augment its General Services Administration schedule business through a small disadvantaged systems integrator Government Acquisitions Inc. With the GSA agreement Gateway
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Industry surrenders to rewrite of Part 15
Despite some lingering doubts from small businesses that they could be put at a competitive disadvantage for future federal information technology contracts the IT industry has capitulated and accepted the proposed rewrite of Part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. The rewrite of Part 15 w
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FEC system to track money electronically
The Federal Election Commission recently released a request for proposals to begin automating its receipt of campaign finance disclosures. Unlike other electronic transactions which woo end users with promises of gained efficiencies the FEC's initiative is more politically charged by the uncertaint
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Imaging Software Suite Assists Police Identifications
This spring the California Highway Patrol was looking for help for the witnesses to a childabduction case who were faced with manually examining hundreds of photos of cars thought to have been used in the crime.
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EPA makes invoice payments EASY
Federal agencies each year take a financial beating from private companies imposing steep interest charges on late invoice payments. Although the Environmental Protection Agency boasts an ontime invoice payment rate of better than 99 percent officials there now are installing an electronic invoice
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