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GAO claims OMB's plan falls short
The Office of Management and Budget assigned the task of overseeing agencies' finances and managerial efforts has fallen short in developing its own strategy to track and improve its managerial capabilities General Accounting Office officials told Congress this month. OMB like other agencies is req
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Cameras, GPS integrated to fight illegal immigration
The Immigration and Naturalization Service next month will begin adding cameras to an automated system that electronically monitors illegal immigration across U.S. borders. During the next year the INS plans to install dozens of remotely operated cameras along the U.S./Mexico border. The cameras wh
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Education halts $1 billion direct-loan program
Facing less demand than expected for its direct collegelending program the Education Department has pulled the plug on an estimated $1 billion fiveyear project to service student loans. Education awarded the Federal Direct Student Loan Program (FDSLP) in September 1996 to Electronic Data Systems
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INS displays IT to fight dismantling
Amid calls to dissolve the agency and merge its functions into other agencies the Immigration and Naturalization Service last week showed off its technological muscle to illustrate that enforcing immigration laws and providing benefits and services to newcomers are virtually inseparable. A congress
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INS upgrade reaches for $1.2B Stars
The Immigration and Naturalization Service this month launched a $1.2 billion project to bring the agency 'out of the Dark Ages.' INS released the request for proposals for the Service Technology Alliance Resources (Stars) project a multipleaward contract that the agency will use to provide itself
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DOD tests BPAs for leasing pilot
In what the Defense Department views as a stepping stone to a new era of computer acquisition, DOD's Health Affairs branch this year plans to award multiple blanket purchase agreements for leasing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of hardware a year. If the program proves successful, Health Aff
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Firms air fed piracy complaints
An industry group asserted that federal agencies are stealing software and this month asked congressional leaders to help stop the theft. The Software Publishers Association (SPA) testifying before the House Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property on Sept. 11 called for a congressional res
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INS awards Wang $538M pact
The Immigration and Naturalization Service last week awarded Wang Government Services Inc. a $538 million information technology services contract that will support the whole range of INS systems. Under the fiveyear Facilities Operations Support (FOS) contract Wang Government Services will manage
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GIS maps out approach for 'democratization' of government data
Geographic data that has long been in the purview of the federal government is slowly finding its way into the public domain as agencies and vendors take advantage of the Internet CDROMs and other pervasive technologies. Observers in the geographic information systems (GIS) industry peg the federa
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Agencies sign pledge to award improved IT acquisition
In an effort to improve the way agencies purchase information technology representatives from more than 20 agencies last week signed a pact to offer incentives to employees who come up with innovative procurement ideas that save money or improve business practices. The Office of Federal Procurement
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Agencies earn failing grades for draft plans
Three congressional Republican leaders last week slapped a failing grade on agencies' draft reports that detail ways agency managers plan to measure how their business practices including information technology help them meet mission goals. The drafts are agencies' first crack at complying with the
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INS to issue digital green cards
As part of its widescale effort to rebuff illegal immigration the Immigration and Naturalization Service this month plans to replace the 'green card ' which legal immigrants use for identification and employment purposes with what agency officials hope will be a more secure card bearing encoded dig
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NEC seeks new markets for ID tech
Reaching a sales plateau with buyers of law enforcement technology NEC Technologies has begun targeting new markets for the company's fingerprint identification technology. The primary target of the new market thrust for NEC is commercial operations such as hotels that could use fingerprint technol
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Sperry Marine, NIMA team on ocean chart project
Nautical electronics company Litton Marine Systems Inc. last month began work with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency to develop a commercial computer program that will read and display information from a vital NIMA database housing information on maritime features. The relationship between th
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Open GIS Consortium ratifies software interface standards
The Open GIS Consortium Inc. last month ratified software interface standards that will pave the way for products that could allow agencies to share mapping data more easily. Vendors in coming months are expected to incorporate the new standards written for simple geographic features in the OLE/C
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Report on Web site hack: This is what not to do
The privately funded Intranet Institute late last month released a lessonslearned report based on an incident involving hackers breaking into a Justice Department World Wide Web site a year ago last month. Intruders broke in electronically to DOJ's Web site Aug. 16 1996 and supplanted Attorney Gen
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VA managers use special software to make health, budget decisions
The Department of Veterans Affairs last month ratcheted up training at its medical centers on how to use a special software program to assess the costs and benefits of providing health care findings from which the agency will use to make management and budget decisions. The software is the heart
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CD-ROMs to replace Navy medical books
The Navy and the University of Iowa College of Medicine next month will begin developing a CDROM that will give naval doctors quick and easy access to medical information to treat sailors at sea. The information contained on the CDROMs will be similar to what is available on a young but popular W
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DOD branch eyes mega software deals
The health care arm of the Defense Department is considering huge departmentwide blanket licensing deals to supply office automation email and database software for the tens of thousands of workstations throughout the branch's Military Health Services System (MHSS). Sources said the DOD Health Aff
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SHARP vendors eye D/SIDDOMS II
The three vendors who walked away this month with juicy Defense Department hardware contracts will be able to leverage their knowledge of DOD health care programs in fulfilling requirements for an estimated $600 million project and they may find themselves staring at even bigger opportunities. All
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