Federal Contract Law: Remember when CICA, GSBCA held sway?
GCN last month celebrated its 20th anniversary, so I looked back over my first columns. When I started in 1984, the hot topic was the recently enacted Competition in Contracting Act. The IT community was also interested in the new bid protest jurisdiction of the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals.
GAO makes portable office go
It didn't take Tony Cicco long to realize the benefits of issuing notebook PCs to all General Accounting Office employees.
GSA releases RFP for new procurement data system
The General Services Administration earlier this week released a request for proposals for a new federal acquisition management system to collect contracting data from all agencies. <br>
Post Newsweek honors veterans of federal IT
Three executives who had a hand in molding federal IT programs and policies over two generations were honored last night at Post Newsweek Tech Media's annual awards gala in Washington. <b>Miriam F. Browning</b> joined GCN's Hall of Fame.<br>
Five pro-level digital cameras shoot it out
Although professional digital cameras still have drawbacks, even skeptics are swapping their 35mm film for 256M compact flash cards.
The lowdown on jukeboxes
<b>What are they?</b> Optical jukeboxes contain optical drives, storage shelves with hundreds or thousands of disks and software-driven robotic arms that instantly retrieve data from any of the disks in the system. The systems listed in this guide contain 5.25-inch media.
How OMB will limit contract bundling
Agencies that buy from multiple-award schedules will see their task orders undergo stricter reviews to make sure the procurements are not bundled and are open to small-business participation, the Office of Management and Budget announced today. <br>
UDO: Is there a blue light in your future?
Magneto-optical disks could take a big leap forward next fall, when Plasmon is scheduled to release products with its Ultra Density Optical (UDO) technology.
Ready to play
Government agencies will never face a shortage of data'it pours in daily, ballooning storage requirements and complicating the task of tapping that data for online services.
Marine Corps buys 62,000 Dell computers
The Marine Corps has signed a blanket purchasing agreement with Dell Computer Corp. to lease 62,000 OptiPlex desktop and Latitude notebook computers as part of the agency's Enterprise Sustainment Initiative.
Internaut: Place your bets in Web services race
Government managers were startled this summer when the Office of Management and Budget seemed to endorse two Web services platforms for enterprise architectures: Microsoft .Net and Java2 Enterprise Edition.
Energy lab creates bioterrorism tool
An Energy Department laboratory is developing a simulation tool to help public health officials decide how to deal with a bioterrorism attack.
Power User: Consumer gadgets could prove useful to agencies
As soon as the price dropped, I invested in an Xbox game system'but not to play games. The Xbox cost about $200, probably less than it cost Microsoft Corp. to produce, and it's a powerful computer as well as a decent DVD player.
Going Paperless
Military veterans who apply for home loan benefits are answering the doorbell to appraisers toting handheld wireless devices instead of clipboards.
Editorial Cartoon
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Getting up close and personal with a technology can often clarify its usefulness. In that spirit, the General Services Administration's Center for Information Technology Accommodation operates the Assistive Technology Center to help federal executives evaluate systems that help employees with disabilities.
Another View: Match competition strategy to requirements
Procurement is getting too personal. Lately, I've seen displays of surprising emotion in the business of federal acquisition policy in not-so-public forums and in the trade press about usually mundane topics such as the merits of the competition.
Gun database blues
Residents of greater Washington, after weeks of siege, could finally stand up straight when police apparently closed in on the infamous sniper. The public-event cancellations and school lockdowns had real effects on nearly everyone's lives and psyches.
Major programs within DISA
<b>Defense Research Engineering Network.</b> DREN is a 10-year, $450 million contract with WorldCom Inc. to build a high-speed research network for 6,000 scientists and researchers. The network will bring long-haul telecommunications to Defense Department laboratories, test centers, universities and industrial sites. Networking services for DREN are currently provided by a virtual WAN built on a public communications network supplied by AT&T.
Network will deliver more bandwidth
The Defense Information Systems Agency is reconfiguring its command and control assets, a move that ultimately will change the way the military fights wars.
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