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Army awards $248 million ID contract
The Army awarded a $248 million contract Tuesday to Symbol Technologies Inc. to field and deploy a wide range of automatic identification devices including bar code readers, magnetic stripe cards and radio frequency tags to track supplies and parts for Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine users worldwide.
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Navy outlines $2B intranet program
Last week the Navy kicked off its plans to develop, acquire and deploy by the end of 2001 a highspeed intranet to serve 700,000 users at 300 onshore sites at a cost estimated as high as $2 billion. Joe Cipriano, the Navy's new program executive officer for information technology, said the Navy/Mar
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DOD puts vast nets to Y2K test
The Defense Department this week will complete what it described as 'the largest simultaneous Year 2000 test of information systems in the world' as part of a series of endtoend tests of how the Pentagon's missioncritical systems will operate after Dec. 31. The current series of tests focuses on
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GTE wins $400M net support deal
The Defense Information Systems Agency now has two support and engineering contracts to tap, thanks to the recent award of a $400 million contract to support the agency's worldwide networks. Awarded last month to GTE Corp., the new contract also will provide the agency with an integrated network ma
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BOEING CLOSE CALL. DISA 'seriously considered' not exercising its options beyond the second year of the twoyear $2 billion DISN Support ServicesGlobal (DSSG) contract held by Boeing Information Services, a top agency official told the Interceptor. The contract was awarded in 1996. The official a
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Navy puts intranet on fast track
The Navy plans to develop, procure and deploy an intranet to serve 700,000 Navy and Marine Corps users in the United States by 2001.
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Army jump-starts $1B global services buy
The Army has kicked off a systems integration and engineering procurement worth up to $1 billion that will provide Army installations and operations worldwide with the talent and expertise required to develop and maintain secure, stateoftheart global information technology systems. Total Enginee
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Small firm wins Army MTS pact
Comtech Mobile Datacom, which has 18 employees and annual revenues of $40 million, has bested a competitive field of bluechip aerospace companies and systems integrators to win a $418 million contract to develop the Army's Movement Tracking System (MTS). Comtech Mobile Datacom, a Germantown, Md.,
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FEEDING FRENZY. An industry briefing that will kick off the acquisition process for the Naval Intranet (NI) this Wednesday should attract a huge crowd of systems integrators, telecom providers and PC vendors. The Navy has booked the commodious (despite its name) Little Hall at the Quantico, Va., Ma
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Hill freezes GPS funds
Congressional concern about a Federal Aviation Administration program has the potential to jeopardize civilian and Defense Department initiatives based on the satellitebased Global Positioning System. In fiscal 2000 Transportation Department appropriations bills, the House and the Senate have kill
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Navy kicks off radical intranet buy
The Navy plans to use a radical strategy to build its much anticipated megaintranet, which will provide 450,000 users worldwide with items ranging from PCs to communications pipes and could cost as much as $2.2 billion. In an industry briefing set for July 7, the Navy plans to back what it describ
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Navy eases shipboard purchasing
The Navy Supply Systems Command has upgraded its standard logistics software and communications program to enable deployed ships to electronically sign government credit card invoices, allowing those ships to avoid paying interest on late payments. This upgrade to the Navy's Standard Automated Logi
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GTE sells 3 government units
General Dynamics Corp., a manufacturer of 'heavy iron' military platforms such as tanks, submarines and fighter aircraft, placed a $1 billion bet last week on the future of digitized warfare with the purchase of the majority of GTE Government Systems. General Dynamics, which manufactures M1 tanks f
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QUICKLY ENABLED. The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit managed to move its satellitebased Joint Task Force Enabler system, which provides NIPRNET, SIPRNET and Joint Worldwide Communications System access for deployed forces, into Kosovo from Macedonia almost as quickly as the grunts themselves. The 2
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Comtech wins Army battlefield communications contract
The Army awarded Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. a $418 million contract today that will provide commanders the ability to precisely locate and communicate with battlefield support vehicles, such as ammunition and fuel trucks, anywhere in the world.
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Hacker groups target Navy sites
In the wake of attacks on the FBI World Wide Web sites earlier this mont
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Cyberattacks spur talk of 3rd DOD network
As part of a strategy to defend its unclassified networks against relentless cyberattacks, the Pentagon may establish a new network to handle electronic commerce and other interactions with the public while cutting off all other existing connections to the Internet. The proposal follows an increase
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Navy faces IT training, support woes
(This is the fourth in a series of articles looking at DOD efforts to bring new technology into the battlefield.) The Navy has hit a few bumps in translating the grand vision of networkcentric warfare embodied in its Information Technology for the 21st Century project into gritty operational reali
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Nets aid Kosovo force
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to insert rapid, highpower, commercial communications links in Kosovo and Macedonia to extend the Defense Department's longhaul communications network to support the peacekeeping effort in the Balkans. The U.S. European Command (Eucom) also has started
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A REAL ASD/C3I AT LAST? The White House, freed of the pesky distractions of the past year (Monica, impeachment, etc.), has finally nominated Art Money, the longestterm senior civilian official in history, as assistant secretary of Defense for command, control, communications and intelligence. If e
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