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Army deals offer DOD price breaks
The Army Small Computer Program last month closed out the fiscal year by signing two enterprise licensing agreements, offering Defense Department customers significant price breaks on key management software packages. The new licensing agreements, the latest in a series of such deals with major sof
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A clickable Army
The Army's top soldier plans what he calls a 'major transformation' of the service from a tankheavy force designed to fight the Soviet Army on the plains of Europe into a lightweight deployable machine capable of quick response anywhere on the globe, relying heavily on technology to cut the fat. G
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TRADOC Tanked? The Fort Eustis, Va.based Training and Doctrine Command, headed by Gen. John Abrams, could end up a big loser in terms of funding and personnel in the sweeping 'transformation'' of the Army announced by Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki last week. A knowledgeable Army Pentagon source sai
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Civilian IT pay thwarts Army
The Army has kicked off an intensive project to determine how to better recruit and retain uniformed and civilian personnel in the highly competitive information technology field, with top leadership and soldiers in the trenches conceding that the Army cannot compete with the civilian marketplace i
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Congress cuts funds for life-saving radio
ongress slashed $20 million from the Pentagon's budget for a radio designed to help downed pilots stranded behind enemies lines call for help as well as automatically pinpoint their position and relay that information to rescue aircraft.
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Army moving forward on logistics modernization contract
The Army plans to award a contract in early December to outsource the operation of a major portion of its logistics system, now that the service has cleared the last procedural log jam standing in the way of its $1 billion logistics modernization program
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Army mulls cutting tanks in favor of lighter, high-tech force
Gen. Eric Shinseki, chief of staff of the Army, today called for a major transformation of the Army within the next decade that could include an abandonment of all tracked vehicles in favor of a lean fighting force that relies heavily on command, control and communications technology.
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Caldera denies union appeal to block logistics outsourcing
The Army has removed the last procedural hurdle standing in the way of its longdelayed $1 billion project to outsource its wholesale logistics system.
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11th Signal Brigade to provide comm support in East Timor
The Army Signal Command, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., will deploy 120 soldiers from its 11th Signal Brigade to provide communications support to U.N. forces operating in East Timor, with the first contingent leaving today at 1 p.m. MDT.
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Congress eliminates funding for new civilian GPS signal
Despite objections by the Clinton administration, Congress this week passed a Transportation Department spending bill that eliminates all funding for a new highprecision satellite signal for use by civilian users of the Global Positioning System.
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DOD gives medical systems clean bill of health
The Defense Department successfully completed an endtoend Year 2000 test of the computer systems in its Medical Health Care System and found no failures due to bad Year 2000 date code.
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Navy: Y2K will cause few waves
The Navy expects Year 2000 computer problems to result in few, if any incidents that would requite a heightened state of readiness, according to a Navywide message from Adm. Jay Johnson, Chief of Naval Operations.
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Navy, Marines ring in Year 2000
Sailors and Marines from the U.S. 7th Fleet and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) last week threw an early New Year's party festooned with streamers and balloons to celebrate the successful completion of a 10day test to validate that all of its computer code is free from Year 2000 bugs. The
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IT-rich USS Belleau Wood heads to East Timor
The Navy's 7th Fleet has deployed the USS Belleau Wood, a flatdecked amphibious assault ship equipped with one of the service's most advanced shipboard information technology systems, to support U.S. forces assisting U.N. peacekeeping operations in East Timor.
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A new reality
Visit soldiers at any Army infantry division outside Washington, D.C., and they will relate a universal complaint: The people who designed their gear and computer systems typically do not build equipment that can survive the rough terrain, choking dust and thundering vibrations of the battlefield.
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Army studying IT recruitment
The Army has kicked off a yearlong study to help determine how to better recruit and maintain its information technology work force, with an emphasis on how the service can use financial inducements to attract workers.
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Calculating costs, cautions from war
The hightech information systems that U.S. and NATO forces employed against Yugoslavia this year ended up contributing confusion, according to a toplevel draft briefing prepared for the commander of U.S. forces in Operation Allied Force. Draft briefing slides prepared for Adm. James Ellis in an a
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NAVSAT SETBACK. Stratos Mobile Networks prevailed in its legal protest against the award of an $112 million contract to Communications Satellite Corp. for 64 kilobits/sec satellite service to Navy ships worldwide, a key component of the Navy's Information Technology for the 21st Century project. Th
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Draft documents signal kickoff for N/MCI
The Navy intends to outsource almost all of its information technology infrastructure for Navy and Marine Corps units and bases in a mammoth undertaking that industry sources value at more than $2 billion.
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Navy, Marines throw early Y2K New Year's party
Sailors and Marines from the U.S. 7th Fleet and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit last week threw an early New Year's party festooned with streamers and balloons to celebrate the successful completion of a 10day test to validate that all of its computer code is free from Year 2000 bugs.
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