Army takes a giant step toward totally paperless contracting
The Army has retired its front-end procurement system after deploying the Defense Department's Standard Procurement System at more than 300 contracting sites.
Budgets block services from issuing PCs to all recruits
Army and Navy officials want to give PCs to all incoming recruits to boost recruitment and retention but say their fiscal 2001 budgets probably won't allow it.
Marine sets a career example
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.'While Pentagon officials review recruitment pitches and struggle to develop financial incentives to encourage re-enlistment, one young Marine Corps officer is testing his own retention strategy.
BRIEFING BOOK
Follow the leader. The budget for R&D work at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego shot up from $434 million in fiscal 1998 to $497 million last year, said Thomas LaPuzza, an SSC San Diego spokesman.
Bell Labs expands fiber-optic capacity to 1,000 channels
Scientists at Bell Labs, the research arm of Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., have put more than 1,000 data channels on one strand of fiber-optic cable, said Gerald Butters, Lucent group president for optical networking.
Quality document management programs serve the enterprise
Early versions of workflow, imaging and document management programs worked well in limited workgroup environments. But they fell short in bringing usable knowledge across the enterprise.
Expert: There ought to be a law against bad software
Government security is hamstrung by the poor quality of the software and hardware that make up information systems, a panel of security experts said at a recent conference.
GSA Region 8 sets up connectivity for remote users
The General Services Administration's Rocky Mountain Region is setting up virtual private networks for its telecommuting employees.
WinStar Federal protests WITS award to Bell Atlantic'it's worth up to $1 billion
A protest last month from WinStar Federal Services put the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System 2001 contract on hold.
Fore Systems introduces new Ethernet switch
New wiring-closet Ethernet switches from Fore Systems Inc. sit at the edge of Ethernet or asynchronous transfer mode backbones.
Workflow and imaging software
No app is an island, especially not in today's network computing environment. Applications that had operated separately are now bound in tightly integrated suites. A case in point: Workflow and imaging software, once relative strangers, now are often found together under the document management umbrella.
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING: New Products
The ProClarity Analytical Platform bundles free developer tools, including an upgraded version of the ProClarity client for online analytical processing under Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services.
Template's tool integrates office applications
Business-process software from Template Software Inc. of Dulles, Va., lets users drag and drop objects to model their organization's rules and procedures.
FTS gauges user satisfaction
The Federal Technology Service in November pioneered a direct-mail survey using prepaid phone cards to gauge government users' satisfaction with its services.
Microsoft designs Office Online to work with handheld devices
Microsoft Corp. has configured a full online version of its Office suite to work with small computing devices, despite the suite's large footprint.
NetObjects Fusion 5.0 includes planning guide and posting tool
NetObjects Inc. has added new types of views and growth-planning capability to its Fusion 5.0 Web building software.
Energy works on high-end supercomputer WANs
The Energy Department's weapon-simulation supercomputers will talk over WANs at a target speed of 100 Gbps by 2004, a Sandia National Laboratories official said.
Compaq introduces four varieties of 700-MHz Pentium III workstations
The new Compaq Deskpro Workstation AP240 represents a bridge between desktop PCs and the company's higher-end AP400 AP550 and SP750 workstations.
Add engine program to one of four platforms and make math visual
The Maple 6 math engine program for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Unix and Linux integrates symbolic and numerical solvers and can work as an add-in to Microsoft Excel.
Defragmenting NT and Win 2000 files online has element of risk
Is it safe to defragment critical Microsoft Windows NT system files online using third-party utilities?
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