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Cisco nabs secret NSA switch pact
Cisco Systems Inc. last month won a key network infrastructure contract with the secretive National Security Agency blowing away a field of competitors with prices at least 50 percent below the nearest bid. The contract dubbed "Light Core" by NSA calls for Cisco to install "literally thousands o
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* New and improved IT21. My Crystal City antenna site has picked up strong signals that Rear Adm. John Gauss has now taken over as the CNO N6 lead on the Navy's IT21 project with the Gauss effort dubbed 'IT21 Plus.' Gauss who spearheaded the Global Command and Control System program during his D
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Take a virtual vacation with the Park Service
Blitzed out by the endofthefiscalyear pace? If you can't take a real vacation a visit to the National Park Service's ParkNet World Wide Web site (www.nps.gov) should offer enough virtual touring and truly dazzling images to lower the blood pressure. The Park Service has spiffed up the graphics
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AF pact pumps up base protection
As part of its response to the June 1996 terrorist bombing of a U.S. Air Force military complex in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 airmen and wounded 250 others the Air Force this month awarded TRW Inc. a $495 million contract to build intrusiondetection systems for U.S. military bases worldwide. The
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* Disappearing data centers. After enough studies to sink a ship the Pentagon has finally decided to slash the number of DISA data centers from 16 down to five according to Tony Valletta the acting ASD/C3I. Valletta who spoke at a Crystal City Va. IT confab sponsored by the American Defense Prepare
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Senator's Web site fries Congress' pork projects
Sen. John McCain (RAriz.) a foe of porkbarrel politics has created a World Wide Web page that does everything but oink. As Congress winds down this appropriations season McCain has enlisted a Javaappletpowered pig as the newest tool in his more than a decadelong battle against porkbarrel poli
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EIA predicts spending to stay flat through 2002
Spending on federal information technology will remain nearly level at roughly $27 billion a year through 2002 according to projections that the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) plans to release this week at its annual Federal Information Systems Forecast. Although showing relatively flat gr
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Users gripe about NT, Exchange
Key network and computer personnel in at least one major Air Force command have filed a letter of complaint with the Air Force's inspector general over a decision to make the Microsoft Corp. NT operating system and MSExchange messaging software a servicewide standard. The letter written by personn
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* Influencing IT21. That's what a combined Lotus Oracle and Sun Federal lobbying battalion has tried to do since CINCPACFLT Adm. Archie Clemins issued some rather 'Microsoftian' interim standards this March. This lobbying effort including a pitch to Sen. Daniel Akaka (DHawaii) finally produced so
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Court approves DT V pact; two share small-biz portion
After a yearlong legal dispute the Air Force opened the smallbusiness Desktop V contract held by International Data Products Corp. but also awarded a contract to Dynamic Decisions Inc. The Air Force originally awarded the contract to IDP only but DDI filed a protest that started at the Small Busi
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Exchange gets Air Force nod
The Air Force has selected Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange as its preferred Defense Message System (DMS) solution and will back that decision with centralized financing and support including a purchase of 105 000 copies of the Exchange client software and 800 copies of the server software valued at $11
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AF opens IT show to onsite, virtual visitors
If you can't make it to Montgomery Ala. for this week's Air Force Information Technology Conference (AFITC) then check out the World Wide Web site set up by the Standard Systems Group host of the conference. The SSG Web site (www.ssg.gunter.af.mil) designed to serve virtual and onsite visitors ser
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BPAs blitz to top of the charts (Part 1)
The Defense Department which has been a leading advocate for large indefinitedelivery indefinitequantity procurements now appears ready to abandon the "onesizefitsall" approach in favor of smaller more flexible blanket purchase agreements based on the General Services Administration's multip
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Shift to self-funding spells success for SSG
As the Air Force's primary information technology group kicks off its annual conference this week it will be concluding a year marked by one of the most revolutionary changes in the organization's history. For most of its three decades of existence the Air Force's Standard Systems Group Montgomery
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Navy tests the 'new world' of larger LANs
The Navy last week ramped up an experiment to test how information technology can improve the Navy's performance in battles. In the socalled 'Ring of Fire' experiment the USS Coronado two carriers and their air wings a threeship amphibiousready group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)
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* The end of the DT V tunnel. I'm picking up strong signals from my downtown D.C. Small Business Administration mobile unit as well as from my permanent site in Montgomery Ala. that indicate an "everybody wins" resolution to the Desktop V 8(a) fracas that is in the air. Originally awarded to Inte
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No self-promotion on Kerrey, SEAL sites
'G. I. Jane ' the recently released movie starring Demi Moore as the first woman allowed to train for the honored and demanding Navy SEALs offers up a onedimensional and comic book take on Special Operations Forces (SOFs) that bears little relation to reality. Navy SEALs and Army Green Berets come
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Navy delivers ground-to-air target imagery
Working behind the camera and not in front of it the real SEALs outdid 'G.I. Jane' last week in a Navy experiment that for the first time transmitted photographs of enemy targets in a remote location to a Navy ship and then into the cockpit of an F/A18 fighter. The SEALs the Navy's elite Special O
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Telcos dispute capacity-shortage claims on DTS-C
Although the Defense Information Systems Agency blamed an 'industry shortage" for AT&T Government Markets' inability to meet schedule and technology requirements for a new domestic communications network rival vendors disagreed. These firms also disputed statements by AT&T that it sought to but co
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* Deca's DISN dismay. The Defense Commissary Agency asked DISA more than a year ago for a waiver from requirements to use DISN and delays in the rollout of the domestic longhaul network have only solidified the agency's desire to jump from the DISN ship according to signals picked up at my Fort Le
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