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Army taps two for $90M laptop pact
GTSI and Intelligent Decisions Inc. won a contract valued at $90 million to provide the Army with portable computers over the next three years.
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Outsourcing pact back under fire
A Republican congressman has attached an amendment to a Defense Department spending bill that could derail the Pentagon's efforts to save billions of dollars by outsourcing operations of information technology support services to commercial contractors. Observers said the amendment, attached to the
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LOGISTICS CZAR? The House version of the 20002001 Defense authorization bill calls for the establishment of a director of defense logistics, empowered with broad Title 10 oversight. (That's the portion of the U.S. Code that defines the roles and missions of the Office of the Secretary of Defense a
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DOD buried under
Software problems have delayed the fullscale deployment of a computer system that the Pentagon plans to use to buy everything from staples to submarines in an electronic, paperless environment an initiative that top Defense Department officials want functional by January 2000. The $326 million S
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Park Service puts R&R resources on Web
The arrival of spring means that practically everyone's favorite time of year vacation sits right around the corner. For many families, summer vacation includes a visit to a national park. ParkNet, the World Wide Web site of the National Park Service (www.nps.gov), definitely reduces the effort
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Amendment may scrap Army's WLMP plans
An amendment attached to the fiscal 2000 Defense Department authorization bill could come close to scuttling the Army's plans to proceed with a $1 billion effort to modernize and outsource the service's wholesale logistics operations.
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Visio wins DOD BPA
Visio Corp. said it signed a $10.7 million, twoyear blanket purchase agreement with the Navy covering the company's line of technical drawing and diagramming software designed to help develop and manage information systems. The new Visio contract will be open to all military services and Defense D
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Navy preps intranet, smart cards
Norfolk, Va. The Navy continues to evaluate the costs for its global intranet with an eye toward kicking off contracting this summer and also has decided to use smart card technology as a 'cyberidentity' for allowing entry into buildings and secure networks, according to speakers here at the se
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Norfolk, Va. NEW DASN C4I NEEDED. Dr. Anne Miller resigned earlier this month as deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for C4I, a move that was somewhat of a 'surprise,' according to Navy CIO Dan Porter, speaking here at the Navy Connecting Technology Conference. Miller, who has taken an inform
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Pentagon confirms 'nuisance' cyberattacks
The Pentagon identified what it called nuisancelevel attacks against its World Wide Web sites that resemble the attacks by Chinese hackers against sites operated by the departments of Energy and Interior earlier this week.
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Navy: DOD must balance Y2K preparation, public perception
The Defense Department must be careful to prepare for possible Year 2000 problems while at the same time not alarming the public, a top Navy official said.
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Microsoft probes Unix territory
Microsoft Corp., making an unprecedented foray into Sun Microsystems Inc. territory, is scrambling to put together a Unix version of its messaging software after being shut out of the Army's strategic program for deploying commercial hardware and software to the battlefield. The Army has chosen to
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Army expects PIII swap
NORFOLK, Va. The two Personal Computer3 contractors should upgrade their offerings to include Intel Corp.'s forthcoming Pentium III processors at no additional costs to the customers, an Army procurement official said last week. Intel Corp. plans to begin phasing out its Pentium II line in Augu
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DOD-wide database pact imminent
The Defense Department plans to award the first in a series of departmentwide licensing agreements for database management systems as early as this week. Under the arrangement, Oracle Corp. will provide its software at volume discount pricing that is unavailable through existing contracts. The Pent
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Army accelerates radio deployment
The Army has speeded up delivery of hightech aircrew survival radios to units operating in the European theater, following several modifications to address mechanical and design problems. A spokeswoman for the Army CommunicationsElectronics Command (Cecom), Fort Monmouth, N.J., said the Tobyhanna
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COMPOUNDING CONFUSION. The Army has selected the unbelievably userunfriendly Cecom Acquisition Center World Wide Web page as its front end to handle 'complex' bids for all Army procurements, from tanks to helicopters, according to Kevin Carroll of the Program Executive Office Standard Army Managem
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Air Force awards BPAs for rugged portables
The Air Force last week awarded three contracts for highpowered, rugged portable computers to Cytec Corp,. Government Technology Services Inc. and Inacom Government Systems.
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DOD net overhaul to thwart hackers
The Defense Department has started an overhaul of its global unclassified network to fight off the barrage of hacker attacks the department's systems suffer and to increase capacity to handle a huge rise in traffic to and from the Internet. The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to redesign i
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BACK TO THE FUTURE. TRW Inc., which has the megacontract for the Army's Force XXI battlefield digitization contract, has switched hardware companies to supply computers with Applique command and control software that are destined for installation in tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and practic
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IT on the high seas
In the newly connected world, information access and information exchange become essential tools in the missions of the warfighters
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