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Lucent, GTE to share Navy Vivid contract
The Navy last week awarded contracts to four vendors for up to $2.9 billion worth of telecommunications equipment and services only to see two of the winners abruptly withdraw from the program because they feared their awards were too small to cover the required investment in the program.
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As DISA turns. In yet another installment of my favorite series 'What's Up on Courthouse Road? ' I've confirmed that Col. (promotable) James Hylton will depart the Army Signal Command at Fort Huachuca Ariz. later this month for a new job as director of operations for DISA. Hylton currently the ASC
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Navy awards 5 BPAs
Over the last two weeks the Navy's Atlantic Fleet has awarded blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) to five vendors for PC notebooks desktops and servers that conform to the Navy's Information Technology for the 21st Century strategy. Under the new BPAs open Navywide BTG Inc. GE Capital Informatio
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Reform pork. The bulk of the Defense Reform Act of 1997 (see story Page 12) deals with all kinds of reforms but a clause tacked on to the end shows stopping technopork is not one of them. This section of the bill directs the Pentagon to install a fiberoptic metropolitanarea network (MAN) in at l
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Bill calls for DOD tocompete with vendors
The House last week overwhelmingly passed the 1998 Defense authorization bill (H.R. 1119) which calls for the Defense Information Systems Agency and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to compete with the private sector by 2000 for operation of 'inherently nongovernmental functions' such as
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Pentagon launches $500M GBS program
A new era in military satellite communications came one step closer to reality last week when four teams submitted bids on the $500 million Global Broadcast Service a program designed to give soldiers on the battlefield the power to select largescale images and videos much the same way a TV viewer
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Navy brings substance, style to JWID '97 site
To stand out in the sea of images available on the World Wide Web many sites take the outdoorbillboard approach relying on graphics that visually scream at the clickby Net cruisers. That might have worked well in the pioneering days of the Web but to stand out today it helps to adopt a subtler ap
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House mulls slashing DOD work force
A key congressional panel has called for slashing the Defense Department acquisition work force by 40 percent and Pentagon headquarters staffs by 25 percent predicting the cutbacks will save $15 billion during a fiveyear period. The House Committee on National Security inserted these provisions wh
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Lockheed revamps DMS architecture
Lockheed Martin Corp. has revamped its Defense Message System architecture from a "messagingcentric" architecture to a "groupwarecentric" system that will better meet the needs of Defense Department users with "significant cost savings " according to company officials. Paul LeVesque a Lockh
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The NT ceiling. My WesPac mobile unit reports that the Navy DMS Tactical Pilot on the USS Blue Ridge command ship of the 7th Fleet has run into a Windows NT reality that could crimp the style of IT21 power users. NT servers currently can't handle anything above 16G of stored files a real problem
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DISA scales back DMS 'grand design'
The Defense Information Systems Agency has abandoned its 'grand design' plans for the halfbilliondollar Defense Message System and will refocus its development efforts so DMS 'converges' more closely with commercial products according to Lt. Gen. Al Edmonds who acknowledged on June 6 his last day
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CIO confusion. SecDef William Cohen who should have more insight than anyone into the ClingerCohen Act of 1996 (except for Clinger) waited until June 2 one business day after Emmett Paige Jr. departed the building as ASD/C3I to send out a policy memo designating the ASD/C3I as the DOD CIO. Thi
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FalconView draws rave reviews
The Air Force Reserve received recognition throughout the PC industry this month for a lowcost Windowsbased software program it developed to help Air Force Navy and Air Force One pilots plan their flights. The program called FalconView was one of five finalists at the Windows World conference in
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NIMA's Web site: Too stealthy for casual surfer
Web sites bear the stamp of their host organizations and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's site is no exception. NIMA's austere opening section for the public portion of its site (www.nima.mil) is an online reflection of the 'black' world of its two parents the Central Intelligence Agency
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Eminently Emmett. Paige Jr. of course whose prepared remarks for his retirement ceremony as ASD/C3I last month carried the same pungency as his utterances throughout his tour of duty. DOD still relies too much on "sneakernet" to exchange data Paige said while most "systems or applications are no
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Marines take new IT to Sierra Leone
Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) responding to realworld contingencies in Sierra Leone and the Congo during the past month tapped into newly deployed command control and information technology systems to support these missions. Marines from the 22nd MEU who last week evacuated 2 500 Americans and
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Telecom giants battle for $1B systems revamp
Bidders view the upcoming $1 billionplus project to upgrade Pentagon telecommunications systems as a battle of the telephone giants pitting AT&T against its offspring including Bell Atlantic and Lucent Technologies Inc. as well as GTE Inc. All four companies will vie for a prize valued as both a s
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Four-star Adm. Clemins starts C2 revolution with IT-21
PEARL HARBOR Hawaii Not many fourstar admirals bother to burrow down into the technical underpinnings of their command and control (C2) systems. Adm. Archie Clemins commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT) headquartered here has not only mastered arcane technical jargon but he h
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Navy casts Net into deep-sea exploration
The Navy's oceanographer develops systems for undersea surveillance navigation and global weather and oceanographic forecasting so it is understandable that the World Wide Web site oceanographer.navy.mil evokes the sea's magnificence and provides a wealth of information about the tools needed to ma
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Pacific Fleet sails into cyberspace
HONOLULU The 'tyranny of distance' has continually confounded sailors since Magellan set out on his epic journey across the Pacific Ocean. Nearly 500 years later the U.S. Pacific Fleet based here has yet to find a way to shorten the sailing time across this ocean. But the fleet has discovered tha
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