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SAIC to leverage Boeing fed work
Science Applications International Corp. has been busy buying up small technology companies at the rate of more than one per month since January, but it had not shopped in the federal marketplace until this month, when it announced plans to buy Boeing Information Services Inc. SAIC's purchase of Bo
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Unisys expands e-commerce site for fed biz
Unisys Corp.'s Federal Systems Division has revamped its 2yearold electronic commerce World Wide Web site known as Select IT so that federal buyers can access databases holding Unisys' governmentwide acquisition contracts. Select IT, which will remain part of the revised site, has served governme
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NCR wins USPS pact
The U.S. Postal Service last week awarded a contract for the second stage of its effort to put pointofservice computer terminals in most post offices.
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USPS taps NCR for customer terminals
The U.S. Postal Service awarded a $67 million contract this week to NCR Corp. for terminals that the Postal Service plans to use to offer more services and information to customers at retail windows.
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HHS taps CCD for Y2K verification
The Department of Health and Human Services has selected CCD Online Systems Inc. to provide Year 2000 verification tools to the Health Care Financing Administration, which administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
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Symantec upgrades remote-access tool
Symantec Corp. last week released a new version of its dialup remoteconnectivity software, adding centralized management, security and other features. Many federal employees already use pcAnywhere software to dial in to their localarea networks and gain access to Microsoft Corp. Windowsbased de
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Rep. floats GSA reform proposal
The General Services Administration should be partially privatized, and the compensation of the agency's top officials should be based on performance, under a proposal described today by Rep. Tom Davis (RVa.).
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NSA nears approval of remote-access solution
A remoteaccess solution developed by Kasten Chase Applied Research Ltd., two other companies and the National Security Agency has passed NSA's technical and security tests, giving the companies the green light to begin marketing the solution to government. NSA initiated development of the solution
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Microsoft ships Office 2000
Microsoft Corp. last week announced the official release of its Office 2000 desktop application suite, which company officials say will offer government users a substantial upgrade to a commercial offtheshelf product with new collaborative features and easier enterprisewide deployment. Government
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IT vendors seek relief from award audits
A group representing federal information technology contractors last week asked the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to eliminate General Services Administration policies that allow government buyers to conduct audits after a contract is awarded and to demand price adjustments. The Government E
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Senate OKs accounting revisions
The Senate has agreed to a proposal sought by Defense Department officials to revise cost accounting standards (CAS) that are designed to ensure that contractors do not overcharge the government.
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GSA hopes smart card gains fans
The General Services Administration hopes an upcoming governmentwide program for buying smart card products and technologies will help jumpstart the use of the cards by federal agencies. The Smart Access Card program, run by GSA's Office of Electronic Commerce, will cover a wide range of smart car
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OMB orders feds to post privacy notice
The Office of Management and Budget last week directed agencies and departments to post clear privacy policies on the home pages of their World Wide Web sites by Sept. 1. The policies must inform visitors to federal Web sites what information the agency collects, why it is collected and how the age
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OMB: Agencies must post Web privacy policies
The Office of Management and Budget yesterday directed agencies to post clear policies of what information they collect about visitors to their World Wide Web sites by Sept. 1.
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Northrop to merge DPC into Logicon
Northrop Grumman Corp. plans to expand its federal systems integrator subsidiary Logicon Inc. in Herndon, Va., through the $33 million acquisition of Data Procurement Corporation Inc. of Laurel, Md. DPC, an 8(a) company with 180 employees, had revenue of about $60 million in 1998, all of it through
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Former Army officers now Web entrepreneurs
Former Army officers Ed McDaries and Clarence Briggs already had talked seriously about founding some kind of Internet company back in 1995 when suddenly McDaries was plucked from a training class at Fort Bragg, N.C., and sent to Bosnia. But McDaries' departure did not cool Briggs' Internet fever,
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Tracking time
The question people most often ask Sen. Robert Bennett, chairman of the Senate's Special Committee on the Year 2000 Computer Problem, is a logical one. 'Are we going to be all right come Jan. 1?' He is asked that question all the time from other members of Congress, constituents, commentators
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PalmPilot seeks greater role in fed tasks
Palm Computing Inc., maker of the PalmPilot family of personal digital assistants, has launched an initiative to convince federal buyers that the devices have the ability to go beyond keeping dates and organizing personal information. 3Com Corp., the parent company of Palm Computing, is touting rel
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House panel aims to bolster security law
The House Science Committee plans to make another push to update a 1989 law that requires civilian agencies to take measures to protect their computer systems, according to Rep. Constance Morella (RMd.), chairwoman of the Technology Subcommittee of the House Science Committee.
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Most agencies miss performance, budget link
Most government agencies are doing a good job defining relationships between proposed information technology programs and performance goals, but less than half are explaining how money spent will achieve those goals, according to a report by the General Accounting Office released earlier this week.
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