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DOD in never-ending cyberwar
The pace and intensity of cyberattacks against Defense Department computers and networks has increased so much that the Pentagon now considers itself continually at war.
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DISN price hike/desertion? That was the buzz at last week's AFCEA TechNet show, where service and industry officials predicted the agency will need to impose stiff rate increases in fiscal 1999 for users throughout DOD on the agency's premier DISN network. These rate increases stem from accounting
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Beefed-up command and control system doubles soldiers' battlefield vision
The newest version of the Global Command and Control System (GCCS) recently fielded by the Defense Information Systems Agency nearly doubles the number of friendly or enemy forces that a user can view, according to a top DISA official.
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Army, Congress at odds over WLMP
The Army and Congress remain at loggerheads on the service's $1 billion project to outsource key portions of the Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program (WLMP), with Capitol Hill vowing to stop the program and the Army planning to proceed.
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OMB drops three on Year 2000 tier
The departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Interior have slowed in their efforts to fix Year 2000 problems in the past three months, according to officials familiar with a draft report by the Office of Management and Budget.
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Fifth-graders pick Navy ship's name
A new Navy hightech research ship that will map the world's oceans will be named USNS Bruce Heezen, which was the winning entry from a class of nine fifthgraders from Oak Lawn Elementary School, Cranston, R.I.
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NEAT computer tracks asteroids
NASA astronomers soon will begin using a new computer and data analysis hardware to double their efforts to find and track asteroids that may have orbits that come close to Earth.
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U.S. to share Y2K nuclear data
The Pentagon plans to share data with the world's other nuclear powers to ensure that the Year 2000 millennium bug does not lead to an accidental nuclear exchange.
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House adds $1.6 billion to DOD Y2K funding
The House Appropriations Committee pumped an extra $1.6 billion in emergency funding into the Defense Department's efforts to fix the Year 2000 problem in its thousands of computer systems and to enhance computer security.
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U.S. in never-ending war in cyberspace
The pace and intensity of cyberattacks against Defense Department computers and networks has increased so much that the Pentagon now considers itself continually at war.
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Due to the inexorable ticking of the millennium clock, the Pentagon would prefer not to submit monthly Year 2000 progress reports to either the Office of Management and Budget or Capitol Hill, Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last week.
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Spectrum sale threatens key comm network
The mandated sale of federal radio frequencies has clouded the future of a key communications system in Hawaii used by federal, state and local agencies as well as the boating public.
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Senate Y2K czar warns about possible blackouts in Year 2000
The Year 2000 problem could cause electrical brownouts and blackouts nationwide, Sen. Bob Bennett (RUtah) said today.
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United States, Russia cooperate on Year 2000 nuclear risk
Concerned that the Year 2000 millennium bug could cause computer screens in nuclear command and control centers "to go dark" at the turn of the century, the U.S. Defense Department plans to set up a cooperative program to share early-warning-system and missile-threat data with Russia and other nuclear powers, a top Pentagon official said today.
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* Spectrum czar. Cindy Raiford, currently deputy director for communications in the ASD/C3I office (awaiting congressionally directed renaming), will soon become manager or director of a beefedup DOD spectrum office, according to a memo from Art Money, the senior civilian official in the ASD/C3I s
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Congress praises, admonishes DOD in 1999 bills
Both Houses of Congress strongly endorsed the ability of information technology to enhance U.S. military capabilities in separate versions of the 1999 Defense authorization bills passed last month. The House and Senate strongly backed efforts such as the Navy's Information Technology for the 21st C
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GAO targets Army's Year 2000 effort
The Army's Year 2000 program could fail because of management problems, an incomplete test plan and other reasons, according to a General Accounting Office report released last wee
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Justice, Microsoft duke it out in cyberspace
Anyone with access to the World Wide Web can download the U.S. government's documents in its antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. But anyone who decides to download the U.S. v. Microsoft case documents from the Justice Department Web site (www.usdoj.gov) will need a very large disk drive and an a
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Senate wants industry to pay costs of moving spectrum
In an action that could dampen commercial interest in future spectrum auctions, the Senate fiscal 1999 Defense authorization bill proposed that privatesector organizations reimburse federal agencies for expenses up to $5 billion associated with reallocating radio spectrum frequencies. The Federal
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Bill targets logistics outsourcing
The House has hogtied the Army's $1 billion program to modernize its logistics operations, with obscure language tucked into its version of the fiscal 1999 Defense authorization bill. The story of the Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program (WLMP) highlights the political battle that sets those w
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