GSA expects a smooth cutover to WITS 2001
The General Services Administration last month set the stage for a six-month transition that it contends will lead to lower prices and more services under the new Washington Interagency Telecommunications System 2001 contract.
PACKET RAT
The Rat rode the Metroliner to New York City for PC Expo.
Clinton taps former lawmaker to head up Commerce
President Clinton has nominated Lockheed Martin Corp. senior vice president Norman Y. Mineta, a former Democratic House member, to take over as secretary of the Commerce Department.
What would governmentwide CIO do?
ATLANTA'Debate over a governmentwide chief information officer focuses on two issues: Is the job really needed, and what would such a systems czar actually do?
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Agencies set schedule deal
The Small Business Administration and the General Services Administration have reached an agreement that will let agencies get credit for buys from small businesses under Multiple-Award Schedule contracts.
GSA creates depot offices
The General Services Administration is creating two new offices in the Federal Supply Service to manage its eight distribution warehouses.
Site will offer reusable code
A new software exchange site on the Web will host developers' reusable software and intelligently find and download requested modules to a user's browser, regardless of programming language.
GSA names services vendors
The General Services Administration has awarded the final set of systems services contracts under its Millennia Lite program.
Mobile chip clocks 600 MHz
Three new ultralight portable PCs powered by Intel's 600-MHz mobile Pentium III SpeedStep processor have a battery-saving work mode in which the CPU draws less than 1 watt.
CSC will vie for NSA project
At least four bidders are likely to compete for a National Security Agency 10-year outsourcing contract.
NASA hacker pleads guilty
A Boston man late last month pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to breaking into and taking over government systems.
Three win Dallas MAA pacts
The General Services Administration has awarded three contracts for local telecommunications service in the Dallas'Fort Worth area of Texas.
Credit card transactions are ignition keys to Transportation's usable site
The Transportation Department is a big organization with a tall order: Provide the public with information and easy-to-use services from its range of agencies, which include the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, Research and Special Programs Administration, Maritime Administration and U.S. Coast Guard.
Turnkey e-commerce software
With apologies to Calvin Coolidge, the business of America these days is e-business. And that goes for government too.
Former AF Y2K head turns down promotion, will retire
When the Air Force in February offered its year 2000 readiness director a second star, he said, 'Thanks, but no thanks.'
Army centralizes depot work
The Army Materiel Command encompasses eight subordinate commands with 60,000 people at 285 locations in more than 40 states and 24 countries. And although the Army is 40 percent smaller than it was a few years ago, deployments are up 300 percent. To meet the challenge of deploying its dispersed work force, the command has turned to technology.
BRIEFING BOOK
Decentralize it. The Defense Department should rethink its approach to long-haul communications services, said Dan Porter, the Navy's chief information officer.
Sun launches certification program for device drivers
JULY 6—Sun Microsystems Inc. has started a device driver verification program for peripherals connected to Intel platforms running the Solaris operating system.
Is it or isn't it a conflict of interest?
A Maine lawmaker's role as head of a data processing company that holds about $10 million in contracts with the state has prompted a public controversy about legislative conflict of interest that has broken into newsprint and likely will embroil the state's ethics commission.
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