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Funding sought for satellite navigation
Top Federal Aviation Administration and industry officials say the FAA needs an assurance for multiyear funding to enhance the Global Positioning System so that the agency can proceed with a revolutionary navigational system for aircraft.
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Kosovo ushered in cyberwar
The United States formally established a team of information warriors to support its bombing campaign against Serbia this year, a move that has convinced some military experts that the Defense Department already has engaged in its firstever cyberwar, electronically attacking critical networks and command and control systems.
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RAISING THE CYBERWAR ANTE. Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre has repeatedly forecast that DOD and the United States' critical infrastructure will sooner or later face
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DOD may have waged first cyberwar in Serbia
The United States put together its first small group of information warriors, a move that has convinced some Defense experts that the military waged a cyberwar against Serbia this year.
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Navy Seventh Fleet undertakes Y2K landing exercise
The Navy's Seventh Fleet has kicked off an operational Year 2000 exercise on and around Okinawa with eleven ships and thousands of Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, which will conduct an amphibious landing with their clocks rolled forward to the new year.
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GPS satellites live longer than expected
Nashville, Tenn. The Air Force Navstar Global Positioning System Joint Program Office has a problem rarely encountered in a society that treats many products as disposable items: The GPS satellites have a longer life span than anticipated, so the office will have to come up with a plan to take a
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FAA plans to expand GPS use
Nashville, Tenn. The Federal Aviation Administration has forged a series of agreements that will widen the use of enhanced Global Positioning System navigation aids into Central and South America as well as a vast swath of North Atlantic airspace extending to Iceland. Dave Peterson, director of
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RETIRING WITH STYLE. Adm. Archie Clemins, who changed the face of Navy computing with unprecedented commander in chief support for the Information Technology for the 21st Century project, will complete his naval service in a retirement ceremony on the USS Missouri, moored at pier Foxtrot5, on Ford
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Navy deploys mobile HQ to support East Timor peacekeeping
The Navy has deployed a mobile command post packed with computers and equipped with longhaul communications systems to Darwin, Australia, in support of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in East Timor.
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DOD commercializes Kosovo comm
The Defense Department has begun rapidly commercializing the communications infrastructure for U.S. peacekeeping troops in Kosovo, with satellite links, localarea networks and voice and data communications in forward base camps. The Army also wants to quickly install commercially based cellular t
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FAA pushes back GPS
The Federal Aviation Administration has delayed by 15 years its ambitious plan to begin phasing out its last ground navigation systems and to leave the satellitebased Global Positioning System as its sole means of air navigation, according to a forthcoming Transportation Department report. The FAA
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GPS funding cuts could delay system for five years, official says
Modernization of the Global Positioning System could face a five-year delay unless Congress restores $17 million in funding that President Clinton asked for in his fiscal 2000 budget, according to top administration officials.
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Airlines: Summer flight delays stem from modernization woes
The long-delayed modernization of the nation's air traffic control systems have lead to the "horrendous" flight delays that have plagued travelers this summer, according to a top official from the association that represents the U.S. commercial airline industry.
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Australia deploys GPS for pinpoint landings
Australia will become the first country worldwide to use the $10 billion, U.S.built Global Positioning System to help aircraft make precision landings when it inaugurates next month an enhanced GPSbased landing system on tiny Norfolk Island, 938 miles east of the Australian continent.
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Y2K global warning
International travelers venturing abroad to celebrate the millennium should be aware that Russia, China, Japan and Italy top a list of countries that the State Department views as vulnerable to widespread failures because of the Year 2000 problem, according to department sources.
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PRIVATE N/MCI CLUB? Though the Navy chief information officer shop canceled the comeone, comeall presolicitation conference for the $2 billionplus Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (N/MCI) so that it could keep its request for proposals train running on time, it did hold a rather cozy meeting with som
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Air Force tunes in radio for e-mail link
The Air Force soon could use one the oldest forms of telecommunications highfrequency (HF) radio to provide email worldwide to its aircraft, including Air Force One, at a cost far lower than satellite links. The House inserted an extra $3.8 million into its version of the fiscal 2000 Defense
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Montgomery, Ala. Frye Hanging In. The Interceptor mobile unit spent last week here focused on the Air Force Information Technology Conference (AFITC). It was hosted by the Air Force Standard Systems Group, which is headed by Robert Frye. Frye debunked reports from inside the Beltway (ITB) that he
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Cold War bunker made Y2K post
Montgomery, Ala. In a facility once used to track Soviet bombers and missiles at the height of the Cold War, the Air Force last week opened a command post to monitor and engage the last threat of the millennium: Year 2000 datecode bugs that could infect the service's worldwide computer systems a
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