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JIEO services deal is a boon for small businesses
The Defense Information Systems Agency's Joint Interoperability and Engineering Organization Systems Engineering program is a showcase for small businesses with skills ranging from satellite communications to logistics systems. DISA in January awarded the $610 million multipleaward pact to seven s
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Northrop Grumman takes on IDIQs
Northrop Grumman Data Systems and Services Division reached a milestone recently when the company landed its 15th indefinitedelivery indefinitequantity contract. The win pushes the company further into the professional services market from its base in systems integration. The General Services Adm
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Avatar aims 250M drive at mobile computer users
Avatar Peripherals Inc. founded last November today unveiled a removablemedia hard disk drive designed for mobile users that with its small footprint and high capacity the company believes can take on established competitors. The company's Shark 250 available immediately is a portable device that
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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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GTSI focuses on mobile computing, Net security
Government Technology Services Inc. is bundling products and services into specific solutions in areas such as Internet security and wireless mobile computing. The new solutions are spearheaded by a GTSI "technology team" focused on networking and emerging technologies. The team is offering solut
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Access signs sales pact with Cordant
Cordant recently signed a sales agreement with Access Corp. to market Cimage document management software to federal organizations. Access is the exclusive North American distributor for Cimage.[ ]Cordant a unit of Tracor Inc. Austin Texas is selling Cimage under the Naval Facilities Engineering Co
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Federal Data woos NYMA
In a bid to boost its presence in the professionalservices arena Federal Data Corp. is negotiating to acquire NYMA Inc. a former 8(a) company based in Greenbelt Md. A source close to Federal Data a Bethesda Md. integrator said the company's discussions with NYMA are "moving along " and an agreem
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OMB will issue Year 2000 cost updates
The Office of Management and Budget last week announced it will issue quarterly updates on the federal government's cost of fixing the Year 2000 problem as well as on the agencies' progress in fixing systems. Sally Katzen administrator of OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs said at a
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GSA seeks backup systems
The General Services Administration last week kicked off a disaster recovery procurement that will succeed a $50 million contract awarded to Comdisco Inc. in 1993 but with a greatly expanded scope. The Federal Systems Integration and Management Center's Computer and Communications Recovery Services
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Services lure agencies
Interest in the General Services Administration's Schedule B/C integration program has exploded in recent months with an array of vendors queuing up to offer services and government buyers tapping the schedule for projects large and small. Since opening Schedule B/C to services early last year GSA
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Toshiba readies for its desktop product foray
Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. a heavyweight in the federal notebook market is entering the desktop market with Pentium and Pentium Pro models. Toshiba which plans to formally announce its desktop products March 10 recently briefed federal agencies and resellers on its product plans. Indu
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Virtual Data Center Services may melt FAA's ICEMAN
The Federal Aviation Administration may drop plans for a new outsourcing contract in favor of purchasing services through the General Services Administration's recently awarded Virtual Data Center Services program. The FAA's current outsourcing pact Computer Resources Nucleus (Corn) will expire in
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GSA virtual data center deal sparks agency interest
The General Services Administration's Virtual Data Center Services program awarded to three computer services firms last month has already attracted interest from a number of agencies [FCW Feb. 17]. The data center program offers data processing outsourcing services and is open to all federal agenc
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Owens makes rich career in integration
Retired Adm. William Owens earlier this month was named president and chief operating officer of Science Applications International Corp. But for Owens this integration post is just the latest stop in a professional life that has revolved around the subject. Owens a former vice chairman of the Join
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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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Sylvest claims first TDPI pact
In the first of a series of awards the Treasury Department has selected Sylvest Management Systems Corp. to provide Unixbased workstations and servers under its Treasury Distributed Processing Infrastructure (TDPI) program the followon to the expiring Treasury Multiuser Acquisition Contract. The
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Eight to share JIEO pie
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week initiated the government's latest multipleaward services program awarding eight contracts under a $610 million deal to provide engineering services. DISA's Joint Interoperability and Engineering Organization Systems Engineering program was awarded t
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Apple takes dual OS approach
Apple Computer Inc. earlier this month said it will continue to support its current operating system while developing a new operating system based upon Next Software Inc. technology. Apple announced its strategy at the Macworld conference in San Francisco. The company's current operating system Mac
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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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