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Hill proposes $200M more for Year 2000 fix
Congress, faced with the ticking of the Year 2000 clock, used the 1998 supplemental appropriations bill to add more than $200 million in funding to help the Federal Aviation Administration and the Treasury Department rectify computer date problems in key systems before the turn of the century. The
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Agencies ramping up outreach programs
The federal government is stepping up its efforts to compel outside organizations that share data with agencies to fix their Year 2000 computer problems, administration and agency officials told a congressional panel last week. The departments of Transportation and Health and Human Services as well
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Feds ramping up Y2K outreach program
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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White House assures Congress it is on top of Y2K
John Koskinen, chairman of the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion, assured the House Banking and Financial Services Committee today that President Clinton is giving the Year 2000 computer problem high priority.
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GAO offers guidelines for contingency plans
The General Accounting Office last week released a draft report to guide federal agencies through developing Year 2000 contingency plans in case computer systems fail in the next millennium. Claiming many agencies 'may face major disruptions in their operations' because of Year 2000 problems that w
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Senators consider creating separate Y2K committee
Senate leaders are considering creating a special committee that would take a lead role in overseeing agencies' and industry's Year 2000 problem, according to sources familiar with Senate plans. Sen. Robert Bennett (RUtah), a member of the Governmental Affairs Committee and chairman of a Senate su
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Gore report seeks more IT reliance
Vice President Al Gore's task force report on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service was met last week with criticism and praise by Congress and individuals familiar with the agency's modernization program. The 92page report, 'Reinventing Service at the IRS,' calls for the IRS
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Senators consider creating separate Y2K committee
Senate leaders are considering creating a special committee that would take a lead role in overseeing agencies' and industry's Year 2000 problem, according to sources familiar with the Senate plans.
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OMB responds to Year 2000 criticism
In response to a recent General Accounting Office draft report that criticized the Clinton administration's management of Year 2000, the Office of Management and Budget last week reiterated its Year 2000 strategy. OMB responded to a draft report GAO released this month recommending that the recentl
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IRS establishes BPA for Dell PCs
With its nextgeneration PC procurement still under evaluation, the Internal Revenue Service has awarded a oneyear blanket purchase agreement to Intellisys Technology Corp. to provide desktop PCs from Dell Computer Corp. The IRS originally bought Dell PCs from BTG Inc. under the Treasury Departmen
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Curtis tapped for Y2K post
The Defense Department has set up a highlevel Year 2000 oversight office and last week named William Curtis, a former deputy director for procurement and logistics at the Defense Information Systems Agency, to head it. Curtis, with 33 years of federal service, including a tour in Vietnam as an Arm
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White House mulls Year 2000 legislation
In the wake of a report showing most agencies still far behind in reprogramming computers for the Year 2000 problem, the Clinton administration said last week it may seek legislation that would give some agencies a stronger role in overseeing the millennium fix for service contractors, insurance co
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More Americans filing taxes electronically
With less than one month to go in the 1998 taxfiling season, the Internal Revenue Service reports that millions more Americans are filing their taxes electronically this year.
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Rubin says Treasury needs $453 million for Y2K fix
The Treasury Department will need nearly half a billion dollars in the remaining two years of the century to meet the deadline to have its computers be Year 2000compliant, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin told House appropriators March 4.
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CDC contract to expand its HIV/AIDS database
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month tapped Analytical Sciences Inc. (ASI) to establish a national database to distribute timely information about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV, to medical facilities nationwide. CDC awarded ASI a fiveyear, $33 million con
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Report slams DOD's Y2K efforts
Describing the Pentagon's Year 2000 problems as a national security risk, a Defense Science Board (DSB) task force recommended the Defense Department appoint a fulltime executive with 'requisite authority and staff' to oversee DOD's Year 2000 fix, according to an interim report obtained by Federal
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Labor added to critical list in latest Year 2000 report
The Office of Management and Budget has added the Labor Department to its most critical list of agencies that are showing insufficient progress in Year 2000 computer conversion efforts, according to OMB's latest Year 2000 quarterly report, obtained by Federal Computer Week.
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CDC Awards $33M Contract to Expand HIV Database
CDC Awards $33M Contract to Expand HIV Database
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Latest data refutes FAA claims on Year 2000
While the Federal Aviation Administration contends that it will meet its Year 2000 conversion deadline, the latest data the agency submitted to the Office of Management and Budget shows that it will have less than 40 percent of its systems operational by Jan. 1, 2000, a source familiar with the dat
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Warfare center views Y2K fix as chance to upgrade system
Faced with fixing the Year 2000 software glitch in its financial management and related administrative programs, one Navy organization is turning what many agencies see as an onerous task into an opportunity to upgrade and modernize its computer systems. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (
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