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HP, Microsoft ally for NT
HewlettPackard Co. and Microsoft Corp. earlier this month announced a sweeping strategy for jointly delivering products and services that could further boost the role of Windows NT and other Microsoft products in the enterprise environment. The strategy covers everything from Windows NT servers an
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Hayes seeks to build upon Microsoft's federal success
When Peter B. Hayes came to Washington D.C. to become general manager of Microsoft Corp.'s federal district earlier this month he assumed control of one of the most successful divisions in one of the most successful businesses in the world. Hayes replaces Phil Lavery who recently left the federal d
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DOD issues `shared vision' for IT
Defense Department chief information officer Emmett Paige Jr. last week issued the Information Technology Management Strategic Plan which lays out the overarching vision of how DOD will manage and leverage technology in the years ahead. The ITM Strategic Plan addresses many requirements of the Clin
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Marines test handheld computers for battle
CAMP PENDLETON Calif. The Marine Corps put some leadingedge technology through its paces during the last two weeks as part of a highprofile battle exercise conducted in the desert of Southern California. As part of the Advanced Warfighter Experiment "Hunter Warrior " the Marines deployed a nu
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DISA preps own virtual IT store
Following in the footsteps of the National Institutes of Health the Defense Information Systems Agency plans to create a huge virtual computer store in which many vendors would offer hardware and maintenance services to agencies and offices throughout the Defense Department according to industry so
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Vendors tout cost of ownership in new wares
As the fiscal 1997 buying season kicks off this week with the FOSE show in Washington D.C. federal PC buyers can choose from a host of new desktop options designed to reduce the cost of maintaining and supporting standard PCs. On display at FOSE will be "network computers " or NCs one of several
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Three agencies collaborate on contractor database
Three federal agencies are working on a plan that will save time and money for government contractors and agencies conducting electronic commerce by creating a single interface to a distributed database of contractor data. The Office of Management and Budget recently asked the Defense and Treasury
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DOD director revels `in the fray'
Over the last year or so Cynthia Rand has seen her life overrun by the Year 2000 problem the ClingerCohen Act and outsourcing issues. And she could not be happier. In her role as principal director for information management at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command Control C
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Air Force to expand software reuse project
The Air Force awarded late last month contracts to Hughes Aircraft Co. Raytheon Co. and TRW Inc. under a $500 million program that could dramatically reduce the cost and development time of major command and control software programs. The fouryear Command and Control Product Line (CCPL) program ru
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DISA pulls plug on $350M pact
With momentum building behind a proposal to turn over many basic operations to the private sector the Defense Department last week instructed the Defense Information Systems Agency to cancel a $350 million setaside program for data center support services. As announced by DISA director Lt. Gen. Al
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Schedule A expands 15 percent
Buoyed by the new flexibility in the General Services Administration's program regulations GSA Schedule 70A business for workstation and mainframerelated products and services grew dramatically during fiscal 1996. Overall Schedule A revenue for the fiscal year which ended Sept. 30 reached nearly
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FAA pressed to revamp sooner
Even as the Federal Aviation Administration struggles to find money to keep key modernization programs on track a White House commission last week called for the FAA to develop a plan in the next six months to accelerate the revamp of the nation's aging air traffic control system. Rather than proce
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Integrators keep in step with new buying practices
Over the last several weeks four of the biggest information technology contractors in the federal market have moved to refine their business structures to respond to recent changes in how agencies are buying goods and services. Boeing Information Services Computer Sciences Corp. Electronic Data Sys
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Hardware, software sellers pursue Intel MMX business
Hardware and software vendors are lining up behind Intel Corp. and its MMX multimedia technology announcing products that will arrive on federal contracts during the next few weeks.Intel two weeks ago announced its Pentium processor with MMX technology which aims to boost the performance of multime
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EMC revamps Symmetrix product line
EMC Corp. last week revamped its Symmetrix line of storage systems with six new models of mainframe and opensystems products featuring new disk drives and other components that improve capacity and performance compared with the company's current systems. The new lineup of integrated cache disk arr
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Raytheon wins auction for Hughes Aircraft
Raytheon Co. last week came away the winner of a $9.5 billion bidding war for Hughes Aircraft Co. a division of Hughes Electronics Corp. In outbidding Northrop Grumman Corp. the sole competing bidder in the last week of negotiations Raytheon will pick up a full cache of federal business even beyond
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Sun Microsystems debuts mainframe-class machine
Sun Microsystems Inc. this week will introduce what it calls a mainframeclass Unix server which the company will position as a platform for database consolidation and other applications that might otherwise reside in the data center. According to Sun executives the Ultra Enterprise 10000 codena
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Intel chip to speed multimedia apps
Intel Corp. this week rolls out its nextgeneration MMX microprocessor which is designed to speed up multimedia applications on Pentium and Pentium Probased computers. MMX hardware and applications vendors are already poised to infuse the federal market with the new technology. MMX improves the a
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SI Outlook
Nichols Research grows IT business Nichols Research Corp. continued its winning ways last month when it captured one of four information technology services contracts awarded by the Army's Space and Strategic Defense Command.
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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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