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Navy mulls lease for bases, ships
NORFOLK, Va. The Navy's Atlantic Fleet (LANTFLT) recently completed the installation of a highpowered Microsoft Corp. Windows NT network for its headquarters here through a leasing deal that the command believes can serve as a model for other federal agencies. The network allows the LANTFLT staf
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Reform thyself. That's the advice Rep. Floyd Spence (RS.C.) and his buddies on the House Committee on National Security delivered to Secretary of Defense William Cohen in the House version of the 1999 Defense authorization bill. Taking a look at one of Cohen's pet projects, the Defense Reform In
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Navy's high-tech research ship to be named 'Heezen' or 'Coriolis'
As part of a year-long effort to show students the "towering grandeur" of the oceans, the Oceanographer of the Navy has chosen two finalists in a nationwide contest to name its new high-tech research shi
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IT21 sticker shock. The estimated cost of upgrading a Navy Carrier Battle Group and Amphibious Ready Group has jumped from roughly $50 million to between $80 million and $100 million and that covers only the major ships, according to Monica Shepherd, Atlantic Fleet N6. Shepherd said the Navy f
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NSA concerns could hamper DOD Y2K fix
The National Security Agency has slapped a security blanket on the Pentagon's efforts to fix the Year 2000 millennium bug, which could further slow the Defense Department's alreadybehindschedule Year 2000 fixes. NSA has determined that all information detailing DOD's computers and its efforts to
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Bugged by Year 2000 talk? Dig the Panama Canal site
All the hullabaloo about the Year 2000 date problem has obscured other major occurrences around Dec. 31, 1999 one of which is the ownership and management rollover of the Panama Canal. For a primer on the 'Path Between the Seas,' check out the Panama Canal Commission's World Wide Web site at www.
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Year 2000 problems sink Coast Guard systems
The U.S. Coast Guard already has experienced computer systems failures as a result of the Year 2000 bug and in at least one instance has not yet fixed the problem.
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Navy to field PC-based command, control system
The Navy has received initial approval to start fielding a PCbased version of its command and control (C2) system, after completing what a top Navy commander called the 'largest and most comprehensive'' test of such a system in the service's history. The test of the Navy's Joint Maritime Command I
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TRW lands contract to revamp DOD travel
The Defense Department moved a step closer to onestop electronic shopping for travel services with the award last week of a $263.7 million contract to TRW Inc. under the Defense Travel System program. DTS will replace an antiquated paperbased travel voucher process, which can take 25 steps to com
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Acquisition reform key to defense, Cohen says
Top Defense Department officials focused attention last week on acquisition reform, with Defense Secretary William Cohen saying that 'accelerating acquisition reform remains one of our most important priorities.' Cohen, in remarks kicking off DOD's third annual Acquisition Reform Week, which was be
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Big Qwest/NSA deal? That's what my sources tell me is behind a press release issued by Qwest, a startup fiber network company headed by former AT&T superexec Joseph Nacchio. Qwest said last week it won a $430 million virtual private network deal from the U.S. government. Dean Wandry, head of new
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Defense Travel System contract awarded to TRW
The Defense Department moved a step closer to onestop, electronic shopping for items such as airline tickets and hotel and meal vouchers with today's award of the key Defense Travel System (DTS) contract to TRW Inc.
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No need for 'duck and cover' on this DOD site
if you grew up in the 1950s, you probably remember 'duckandcover' drills in school. The practice of ducking under a desk to mitigate the effects of a potential nuclear blast remains a core memory of childhood. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War all but ended nuclear brin
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* Rocket mail. Not every PC vendor in the federal market develops a marketing campaign that gains the instant attention of a fourstar general. Raytheon did so last month with a mailing designed to convey in a dramatic way its acquisition of the former Hughes Data Systems and the Air Force Desktop
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Raytheon backs off plan to sell AF IDIQ contracts
Concerned about damaging its relationship with the Air Force, Raytheon Co. has decided, at least for the present, to continue to service the contracts it acquired when it purchased Hughes Electronics, including the Desktop V and Air Force Workstations contracts. The company reportedly abandoned eff
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Navy IT food fight. My oldtown San Diego mobile unit has picked up strong signals that Rear Adm. John Gauss, the new Spawar commander, has ambitious plans to corral most if not all of the Navy's IT budget. This plan, I'm told, includes Spawar absorbing the Naval Computer and Telecommunications
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IT as vital to military as ships, tanks
SALT LAKE CITY Top Defense Department information officers believe that information technology and computerized weapons will determine winners and losers of future battles, making software as much a component of national defense as the newest ship, fighter or tank. Information officers gathered h
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A (four) star shines at Army command
Gen. Johnny Wilson, the commander of the Army Materiel Command (AMC), talks about the Army and his 37year career with a passion and intensity that would make a recruiter proud. Wilson has good reason for such passion; he's the only black man to make it all the way from a private to the highest ran
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Pentagon denies hackers penetrated secret nets
Despite recent claims by an international hacking group that it accessed and obtained classified information from a Defense Department network, DOD officials last week strongly denied that the group penetrated classified networks or obtained classified information. A group calling itself Masters of
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Raytheon looks to sell IT pacts
The Air Force Desktop V contract the latest in a decadeold series of contracts that helped propel the Defense Department into the PC age has been put on the block by its prime contractor, which is shopping it to a collection of resellers and manufacturers. Raytheon Corp., which acquired the fe
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