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IntelliSys, GTSI start PC-3 battle
The two companies that hold Army PC3 contracts have kicked off an oldfashioned sales war, racing to open their doors for business and battling on prices. The competition between IntelliSys Technology Corp. and Government Technology Services Inc. should result in 'an excellent deal for the Army; t
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Building the infrastructure
In the eight years since Operation Desert Storm, Navy commands have operated out of temporary office trailers and shelters, but now the main Navy compound in Bahrain looks like a New York City construction site
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Air Force squadron keeps eyes on southern no-fly zone
The U.S. Air Force 9th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron operates a key node from Kuwait that enables the unit to track air traffic in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq
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Army unit provides comm support to forces in the Gulf
The 500-acre warehouse complex that serves as the U.S. Army headquarters west of Kuwait City, houses an impressive array of vehicles and equipment, including computers to outfit an entire armored brigade
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READY FOR KOSOVO. Government Technology Services Inc. has stockpiled Panasonic rugged laptop computers in case the Army asks it to provide laptops for forces deployed in Kosovo. Joel Lipkin, business development poohbah at GTSI, said, 'We've taken a stocking position in rugged computers so we coul
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U.S. tests GPS satellites for Y2K compliance
The U.S. Space Command plans to begin today testing the Year 2000 compliance of the Global Positioning System. The test will involve a single satellite and will not interfere with the daytoday operations of GPS users.
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DOD leaders mull Internet disconnect
Hammered by relentless hacker attacks against its unclassified network for years, the Defense Department may back away from using the Internet, which it invented, in favor of relying on intranet enclaves, according to a top Army official. Lt. Gen. William Campbell, Army director of information syst
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Radio shortage compromises crew safety
In the midst of doubling its air armada operating in Kosovo, the Defense Department is experiencing a 'critical shortage' of survival radios used by aircraft crews to call for help, according to internal DOD documents. This shortage, which resulted from design problems with the radio, including a s
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MONOPOLY MONEY. Acquiring wellsituated property is the theme of the Monopoly board game, and it's starting to look as if it is the key factor in the sale of Boeing Information Systems, the integrator arm of the aircraft company that hasn't distinguished itself recently in the hurlyburly battle fo
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Hackers can turn network cameras, microphones on you
Do you have a microphone or video camera connected to your computer or network? If you value your privacy, turn those devices off, a top Army computer protection official warned today.
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Iraq-bound pilots make do with old technology
ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK Pilots of strike aircraft aboard this aircraft carrier, which recently headed toward the Persian Gulf for air operations over Iraq, routinely rely on commercial handheld Global Positioning System receivers to help navigate their older 'Tomcat' fighters not equipped with
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DOD boosts telecom, computers in Balkans
The Defense Department has started to beef up its computer and communications assets to support tactical and humanitarian operations in and around Albania, Macedonia and Yugoslavia, with planning for even more extensive networks under way to support ground operations in Kosovo, FCW has learned. Def
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CLEMINS EXTENDED? I picked up a lot of scuttlebutt during a Western Pacific swing earlier this month that Adm. Archie Clemins, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet and the chief proponent of the Navy's IT21 strategy, could have his tour extended well beyond the threeyear mark, which would be i
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MCI gets call for pay phones in Albania
MCI Worldcom next week plans to install a satellitebased pay telephone facility to serve 2,000 troops stationed at a base in Tirana, Albania.
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Captive soldiers lacked critical GPS radios
The Army last week acknowledged that the three U.S. soldiers captured by the Yugoslav army were not outfitted with a specially designed radio that could have provided their rescuers with accurate information on their location. A spokesman for the Army confirmed that the three soldiers patrolling in
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ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK IT21 ON THE BRIDGE. Sitting high above the complex ballet of aircraft and crew on this aircraft carrier's flight deck, Capt. Matt Touhy's eyes do not stop moving as he guides the ship through the flight operations off the coast of Saipan (the largest of the Marianas Is
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'Cruel' budget pinches pilots' IT on aircraft carrier
Faced with not enough funds to upgrade systems in older aircraft, pilots aboard this aircraft carrier must rely on commercial handheld Global Positioning System receivers to help navigate their older Tomcat fighters, which are not equipped with builtin military systems.
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U.S. Army failed to issue systems that may have aided captured soldiers
The Defense Information Systems Agency today awarded Motorola Inc.'s Government Systems Operation a $219 million contract for equipment and accessories to support Defense Department communications through the Iridium LLC satellite network.
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United States, Australia create WAN during exercise
Innovative use of satellite technology has tied four Royal Australian Navy ships into a widearea network that spans the Western Pacific Ocean, allowing the ships to exchange essential data with the joint Australian/U.S. staff aboard this command ship.
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Melissa virus stows away aboard Navy ship
The wildly proliferating computer virus Melissa, which has infected email servers across government and the private sector, has made its way to email accounts on this command ship of the U.S. 7th Fleet, operating 20 miles of the coast of Guam in the western Pacific Ocean.
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