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Hamre foresees joint task force for info ops at DOD
The Pentagon has plans under way to set up a joint task force to handle strategic and tactical information operations, both offensive and defensive, according to Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre.
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Bad software represents "self-inflicted information warfare"
The Defense Department needs to bring new order and discipline to software acquisition, development and maintenance or face serious consequences in future wars, according to D. Patricia Sanders, DOD's director of test, systems engineering and evaluation.
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DOD Software Technology Conference kicks off with network-centric program
The tenth annual Defense Department Software Technology Conference (STC) opens here today for a fourday run at the Salt Palace Convention Center, with 3,300 attendees already preregistered and roughly 240 information technology vendors scheduled to exhibit.
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Education's Web site sets teachers FREE
Searching for information on the World Wide Web is similar to visiting a flea market: It is mildly interesting at first, but then it becomes frustrating as piles of useless junk overwhelm any desire to continue searching for anything of real value.
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DOD cautions services to wait on ATM buys
Concerned about incompatible equipment, the Defense Department this month asked the armed services and DOD agencies temporarily to stop buying a highspeed network technology critical to future warfighting strategy pending release of departmentwide standards. This action could slow work on $5 billi
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Intercepts
* Defense duo does the valley. My remote unit reported that John Hamre, deputy secretary of Defense, and Art Money, the designee for the assistant secretary of Defense Info Ops job, spent last week having highlevel powwows in Silicon Valley, including visits to executives at HP and a session with
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Navy christens new Network Operations Center
The Navy stands a good chance of obtaining the budget it needs to complete an enormous shiptoshore automation project about five years ahead of schedule.
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Navy's IT-21 project could get accelerated funding
The Navy stands a good chance of obtaining the budget it needs to complete an enormous shiptoshore automation project about five years ahead of schedule.
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Funding and spectrum conflicts threaten GPS civilian expansion
The departments of Defense and Transportation need to quickly resolve complex funding and spectrum issues to provide the Global Positioning System's second and third civilian signals, which Vice President Al Gore announced late last month, according to top Pentagon and DOT officials. Developed by D
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Rogue transmitter knocks out GPS signals
An errant Air Force transmitter in upstate New York jammed Global Positioning System satellite navigation signals for two weeks earlier this year, with at least one Continental Airlines flight reporting a total loss of GPS signals and a dozen other GPSequipped aircraft filing interference reports,
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DOD considers extending life of aging Autodin
The Defense Department has begun to develop contingency plans to keep portions of the Autodin messaging system operational past its scheduled shutoff date at the end of 1999. Although its planned replacement, the halfbilliondollar Defense Message System program, was originally intended to take o
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Intercepts
* DMRD The Pentagon ran a pricey, displaytype classified ad in the Wall Street Journal April 8 for what it called an 'executive opportunity'' for a job as director, Defense Reform Initiative, 'who reports directly to the Secretary of Defense...and functions as the principal adviser for all matter
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Comm expert brings IT to 'hot spots'
RAMSTEIN AIR FORCE BASE, Germany As the deployment planner for the Air Force's 1st Combat Communications Squadron, Tech. Sgt. Sarah brings substantial personal experience to the job. Finamore, whose own deployment schedule reads like a tour of the world's hot spots, said she loves to travel, and
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DOD readies contingency plan for aging Autodin
The Senate late last week established a special committee to address the Year 2000 problem.
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U.S. gears up for defense of GPS spectrum
Key federal spectrum officials voiced concern today that the United States might not gain the protection it needs for Global Positioning System satellite signals when an international meeting of radio spectrum users convenes in 1999.
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New GPS civilian signals to cost as much as $700 million
A White House announcement last week to improve the accuracy and reliability of the Global Positioning System by adding two new civilian signals could end up costing as much as $700 million a bill that civilian agencies will have to pay, according to a source familiar with the proposed systems architectures.
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Finding frequencies for new GPS signals proves difficult
The departments of Defense and Transportation need to resolve a number of key issues before the two agencies can go ahead with a plan announced last week to add two new civilian frequencies to the Global Positioning System, according to DOT.
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Russians selling navigational jamming device
The Senate late last week established a special committee to address the Year 2000 problem.
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Gauss lays out IT plans for Spawar
Rear Adm. John Gauss, who last month took over as commander of the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Command (Spawar), said he wants to deliver information to users as just another utility such as power and phone connections. The programs and projects Gauss plans in the near term will allow Navy user
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Intercepts
* The Great CIO Saga (continued). The campaign for the key deputy CIO slot at DOD continues unabated, with the fervor usually found in a smalltown election but then, the Pentagon does resemble a small town, albeit with a disproportionate number of supercharged egos. As Intercepts fans remember,
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