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Explore deep space with NASA DS1
NASA's Deep Space 1 mission, launched late last month, has caught the fancy of the general public with its emphasis on science fictionlike technical wizardry. As it has done in the past, the space agency is making use of the World Wide Web to explain the significance of the program and to provide
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Sun lifts curtain on new Unix OS
NEW YORK Sun Microsystems Inc. last week introduced a new version of its Solaris operating system with which the company expects to expand its business in lowend and highend networked environments. With Solaris 7, Sun is targeting Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT and other Unix purveyors, calling i
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U.S. Bank wins DOD purchase card pact
U.S. Bancorp, Minneapolis, today announced that its U.S. Bank International Merchant Purchasing Authorization Card Government Services Division has been selected as the provider of government purchasing cards for the Defense Department.
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GTSI adds seat management to NIH ECS II
Government Technology Services Inc. today announced that it would add socalled seat management services to its National Institutes of Health's Electronic Computer Store II contract.
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Michael Yoemans champions BPR activities at Pentagon
With the Defense Department undergoing major changes at its highest levels, Michael Yoemans, one of the Pentagon's lead advocates for business processing reengineering (BPR), keeps in mind that change rarely happens easily or quickly.
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Gelco bolsters travel management
Still fresh from winning a major role in the Defense Department's Defense Travel System project, Gelco Information Network last week began shipping a new version of its travel management software, which includes support for Oracle Corp. databases. Gelco Travel Manager 7.1 is the latest version of t
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GTSI elects Young as chairman
Government Technology Services Inc. today announced that Lawrence J. Shoenberg resigned as the company's chairman of the board on Monday and that the board had elected Dendy Young, GTSI's president and chief information officer, as his replacement.
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DOD announces reorg of C3I office
The Defense Department today announced a restructuring of its command, control, communications and intelligence office that streamlines oversight functions, but not as dramatically as once expected.
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DOD picks four officers to fill top IT posts
The Defense Department today announced a series of nominations to fill some of its top information technology management slots.
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Litton/PRC piles up contracts with CIO Inbox strategy
Litton/PRC Inc.'s William James, formerly a staff member of the Air Force chief information office, has crafted a services strategy that has helped his company win four Defense Department services contracts potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. James, Litton/PRC's vice president of com
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INS awards $400M pact to SAIC
The Immigration and Naturalization Service on Friday awarded a $400 million contract to Science Applications International Corp. to oversee the continued development of the agency's farflung information systems. Under the contract the first of five to spin out of the agency's $1.2 billion Servic
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INS awards $400M pact to SAIC
The Immigration and Naturalization Service on Friday awarded a $400 million contract to Science Applications International Corp. to oversee the continued development of the agency's far-flung information systems.
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4 get high ranks in pre-bid evaluation for $430M FBI pact
Using pastperformance evaluations, a General Services Administration contract office has identified four out of more than a dozen potential prime contractors that have the best chance of winning a $430 million systems integration deal at the FBI.
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BDM's Stottlemyer joins BTG
Todd A. Stottlemyer has joined systems integrator BTG Inc. as senior vice president and director of corporate development, the company announced today.
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Air Force calls for Unix-to-NT port
In yet another sign of the growing predominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT, the Air Force last week tapped a fourvendor team to pilot an initiative to move command and control applications from Unix to Windows NT. Under the cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) signed last we
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DOD awards $50 million to industry, universities for Next Generation Internet
The Defense Department today announced it would spend $50 million over the next three years to fund privatesector research into technology that will support the government's Next Generation Internet initiative.
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HP slashes technical workstation prices
Looking to expand the market for its Unixbased technical workstations, HewlettPackard Co. last week slashed prices by up to 37 percent on its most popular models. The price cuts come 16 months after HP began consolidating its workstation manufacturing facilities and restructuring its business ope
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HP slashes Unix workstation prices
Sixteen months after restructuring its manufacturing and business operations, HewlettPackard Co. today slashed prices by up to 37 percent on its Unixbased technical workstations.
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Compaq increases effort to leverage federal channels
Despite the lure of better margins that come with bypassing resellers and selling PCs directly to federal agencies, Compaq Computer Corp. actually is increasing its investments in the federal channels, according to the company. During the last year, Compaq has about tripled the staff of its federal
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Dell to bundle OpenNT free with Workstation 400
Responding to users who want to replace Unix workstations with Microsoft Corp. Windows NTbased systems, Dell Computer Corp. plans to announce this week that it will bundle a UnixtoNT software package free of charge to federal customers buying Dell Workstation 400 systems. OpenNT 2.1, from Softwa
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