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Plan blends C3 office with intelligence, recon
The Pentagon's central command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) office will have its mission dramatically widened under a draft plan awaiting final approval from top Pentagon management. Defense Reform Initiative (DRI) plans released last week for the Office of the Assistant Secretar
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DOD taps Netscape for security
In a dramatic change of direction, the Defense Department next month plans to turn to commercial products from Netscape Communications Corp. to provide many of the advanced security features slated for the muchdelayed, billiondollar Defense Message System. The Defense Information Systems Agency,
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Curtis tapped for Y2K post
The Defense Department has set up a highlevel Year 2000 oversight office and last week named William Curtis, a former deputy director for procurement and logistics at the Defense Information Systems Agency, to head it. Curtis, with 33 years of federal service, including a tour in Vietnam as an Arm
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DOD pushes ahead with PKI pilot
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to roll out a pilot digital signature program based on commercial products this spring for anywhere from 250,000 users to as many as half a million users. The pilot will serve as the test bed for the development of all types of paperless processes throug
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DOD taps DISA's Curtis as Y2K czar
The Defense Department has set up a highlevel Year 2000 oversight office and named William Curtis
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DOD bolsters its Bosnia comm setup
EAGLE BASE, TUZLA, Bosnia The fiberoptic communications cables that snake their way alongside the rough, plank walkways that serve as the sidewalks here at the headquarters of the U.S. force in the former Yugoslavia not only provide highspeed voice, data and Internet connections but also repres
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LOC's overhauled site tells America's story
A recent trip to the Library of Congress on the World Wide Web (www.loc.gov) to check out the new online release of some 8,000 pages of correspondence to and from George Washington turned into a serendipitous adventure that provided sheer delight at every mouse click. LOC has completely revamped it
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Intercepts
* Byebye base comm. The Navy plans to outsource the operation of 100 base communications offices as part of an overall plan to slash $2.5 billion from its budget by turning over nonessential functions to outside providers. Chuck Trigger, assistant chief of staff for the Naval Computer and Telecomm
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DOD, GSA unveil dueling nets
The Defense Department and the General Services Administration unveiled plans last week to build stateoftheart telecommunications networks to serve the vast pool of more than 300,000 DOD and civilian employees in the Washington, D.C., area. GSA made it clear that it intends to develop a Washingt
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DOD adds attack capability to infowar
The latest Pentagon reorganization plan creates for the first time an offensive information warfare (infowar) operation within top echelons of the Defense Department and gives information warfare both offensive and defensive increased visibility and clout. The proposed plan, which is part of a
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Intercepts
* No deLight at NSA. My Fort Meade antenna site has picked up strong signals that the Hill has taken an interest in the followon to the National Security Agency's Light Core contract that was awarded last year to Cisco Systems at a bluelightspecial price of $34 million and then shelved followin
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Navy, AF outsourcing to save billions
The Navy and the Air Force hope to save about $2.5 billion each in their fiscal 1999 budgets by outsourcing or privatizing selected tasks, including information technology functions, according to internal documents. In a Jan. 15 Navywide message from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jay Johnson, the
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DOD to upgrade comm
STUTTGART, Germany The U.S. European Command (Eucom), headquartered here, has devised an innovative plan to quickly upgrade rather than replace its key backbone network in Europe in a partnership involving the Army, the Air Force, the Navy and the Defense Information Systems Agency. Air Force Bri
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INTERCEPTS
* C3I pinchhitter. Jacques Gansler the new deputy secretary of Defense has tapped former ASD/C3I Duane Andrews now laboring in the rarefied heights of SAIC to help him come up with a new game plan for the office Andrews once headed. No hard intell on what Andrews will suggest but my Tysons Corner
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Reforms help field C2 system faster
SAN DIEGO Acquisition streamlining combined with the cost benefits of substituting commercial PCs for highend Unix workstations will allow the Navy to field its major command and control system four years earlier than anticipated. Capt. Roger Hull program manager for Navy command and control sys
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Watery wonders await on NOAA's Web site
Wellcrafted 'kids' sites'' on the World Wide Web showcase the medium at its best. While TV with the exception of the Public Broadcasting Service rarely uses its power to inform enlighten and educate numerous Web sites have heartily embraced this mission. Tune into the National Oceanic and Atmosphe
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MCI presents Navy with high-bandwidth option
SAN DIEGO MCI Government Markets believes it has developed a turnkey commercial solution that exceeds the Navy's requirements for sending highbandwidth voice video and data to ships at sea. The requirements are part of the Navy's highprofile Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT21) p
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Acquisition brings together Ashtec, Magellan
Orbital Sciences Corp. strengthened its position in the Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver industry through an agreement to acquire and merge Ashtec Inc. with Orbital's Magellan Corp. subsidiary creating a $125 million satellite receiver company. Magellan which introduced the first handheld G
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Navy stays with PCs, Microsoft standards
HONOLULU The Navy plans to stay with the interim commercial standards issued in March for its massive project to link ship and shore computer systems despite heavy industry pressure for changes. The Navy still plans to build its Information Technology for the 21st Century project around Intel Cor
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Protests plague DISA telecom procurements
The Defense Information Systems Agency's decision to modify existing contracts for key telecommunications programs has led to a series of vendor protests in the past month. In particular three procurements are at issue. DISA recently modified AT&T's domestic DISA Transmission Services Contract (DTS
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