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Commanding by computer
Col. David Fulton, commander of the Okinawa, Japanbased 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), summed up the unit's recent fivemonth deployment to the Persian Gulf by borrowing a phrase from the TV show 'Star Trek': 'The 31st MEU has truly gone boldly where [it has] never gone before,'' Fulton sai
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Eucom offers window on its operations
If you want a quick snapshot of deployed U.S. forces engaged in everything from peacekeeping missions to air strikes, check out the home page of the U.S. European Command (www.eucom.mil), whose 13millionmile area of operations extends from Bosnia and Kosovo to the northern nofly zone over Iraq.
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Old IT risks pilots over Kosovo
Air Force and Navy pilots flying missions over lethal antiaircraft sites in Yugoslavia this month lack advanced technology systems that could better ensure their safety, including a new survival radio for downed air crews that the Pentagon rushed into development. A mix of political decisions, Def
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URBAN ENVY? The Air Force has decided to imitate the Marine Corps' highly touted Urban Warrior exercise, which was held this month, with its own urban warfare exercise next year, to be called the Expeditionary Force Experiment. The Marines and their commandant, Gen. Charles Krulak, garnered a lot o
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Report: Allow cyberwar response
The Pentagon's policy of prohibiting the Defense Department from mounting a counter cyberattack if its computers are attacked puts the military at risk, according to a report released last week. DOD's 'purely passive' approach to protecting its information systems from cyberattacks could result in
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Sprint wins bulk of DOD low-speed network services
Sprint captured the largest initial order on a new $600 million, multiple vendor, 10year Defense Department contract to provide relatively lowspeed network services departmentwide across the United States. The Defense Information System Agency created the program to meet the needs of DOD organiza
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DOD scales back GPS feature
Citing security reaspons, the U.S. Space Command this month stopped issuing important supplemental data on it
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DISA picks three for DISN pact
The Pentagon awarded contracts to AT?#038; T Government Markets, MCI WorldCom and Sprint Communications Co. as part of a $600 million program to provide lowspeed network services throughout the United States.
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SPECTRUM WARS. Vice President Al Gore announced with great fanfare this year the administration's financial and policy backing for two new civilian frequencies on Global Positioning System satellites scheduled for launch early in the next century. But according to reports I picked up last week at t
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DOD to step up defense of GPS signals
The Defense Department plans to add a new set of military antijam frequencies to the next series of military Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to protect its users in what a top DOD official called 'navwar,' or navigation warfare. New generations of precision munitions as well as U.S. att
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Coast Guard to expand enhanced GPS system
The Coast Guard last week announced plans to double the coverage provided by its enhanced Global Positioning Satellite system that serves marine users navigating coastal and inland waterways.
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Report: DOD needs cyberattack authority
The Pentagon should consider changes to policies that currently prohibit the Defense Department from mounting a counter cyberattack if its computers are attacked, the National Research Council recommended in a report released today.
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DOD to step up defense of GPS
The Defense Department plans to add a new set of military antijam frequencies to the next series of military Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, to prevent the loss of critical positioning information during a battle, a top DOD official said today.
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EU to launch homegrown satellite navigation system
The European Union plans to go ahead with development of its own $2.4 billion to $3.2 billion global navigation satellite system (GNSS), partly out of concern about having to rely on the existing Pentagonmanaged Global Positioning System.
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INFODOCTRINE DEFENSE. Don't worry about those 80 to 100 cyberattacks that DOD 'routinely' experiences in a day: 'We've got the doctrine for it.' That's the curious message delivered last week by an Armed Forces News Service article on the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Aff
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U.S., Russia form Y2K nuke center
The Pentagon has reached an agreement to set up a joint warning center with Russia to help avoid an accidental launch of nuclear weapons that could result from system malfunctions caused by Year 2000related computer problems. The Defense Department intends to provide Russians working in that facil
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ASD/C3I MAIL CLERKS? Art Money, the longterm senior civilian official acting as ASD/C3I, pleaded with Rep. Stephen Horn (RCalif.) to think twice before he issues any more Year 2000 report cards to the Pentagon. Money told Horn, who has spearheaded House probes into the Year 2000 bug, that the hig
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GTSI, Intellisys win $300 million Army pact
Government Technology Services Inc. and Intellisys Technology Corp. won the battle for the Army's $300 million Personal Computer3 (PC3) contract by offering highend desktop machines from HewlettPackard Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. Steve Baldwin, president of Intellisys a Fairfax, Va.based
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Navy charts own network course
The Navy took another step toward running its own networks last week with the release of a draft planning document that said the service may acquire longhaul telecommunications on a competitive basis rather than sticking with Defense Departmentwide networks operated by the Defense Information Syst
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Pentagon details U.S./Russian Y2K center to avoid nuclear exchange
The United States has reached an agreement with Russia to set up a center to ensure that neither nation launches a nuclear attack erroneously if computers controlling the two nations' nuclear weapons malfunction because of Year 2000 date code problems.
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