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BC2S gets ATM technology boost

To cover the Defense Department's ongoing withdrawal of U.S. forces from Bosnia to Germany Pentagon communicators have upgraded the Bosnian Command and Control System (BC2S) to handle huge multigigabyte data files from platforms such as spy satellites and Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Air Forc

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MCI, DOD explore security issues in upcoming BT buy

In anticipation of its announced purchase by British Telecommunications PLC MCI's Government Markets division has been working with the Defense Investigative Service to ensure that the company's guidelines for protecting federal classified communications meet the standards established by the Defens

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New info war ops center. DISA has created a Global Operations and Security Center to provide centralized management for all IWD (information warfaredefend) operations for DOD. Air Force Col. James Sweeder who previously headed NSA's Customer Engineering Support Division will run the new center. S

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U.S. sitting duck, DOD panel predicts

The dependence of the United States on computers and communications systems to run its critical power finance and transportation systems places the country at risk in the event of an information warfare (IW) attack according to a report prepared by a toplevel Defense Department advisory panel. Thi

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Army outfit keeps water data flowing

While you might not need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows a hydrologist comes in mighty handy when an entire armored division is planning to cross a river using nothing but pontoon bridges. That's what the 1st Armored Division commanders in Bosnia now have access to thanks to a World W

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Motorola takes Air Force contract worth $263.7M

Motorola Space and Systems Technology Group won the $263.7 million Air Force Theater Deployable Communications (TDC) Integrated Communications Access Packages Program contract late last month. Motorola bested both GTE Corp. and Harris Corp. for the key program which is designed to upgrade communica

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* Paige to stay? Despite an announcement earlier this year that he planned to pull the pin after the election ASD/C3I Emmett Paige Jr. appears to have no immediate plans to hit the road. In a recent allcaps email (fondly referred to around here as Emmettgrams) Paige wrote 'I HAVE NO SET SCHEDULE

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Report backs joint personnel system

The Defense Science Board has strongly recommended development of a joint commercially based personnel and pay system for the Defense Department rather than the Navy system ardently backed for the past two years by Rep. Bob Livingston (DLa.) the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Commit

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Sysorex, BTG land PC-2 pacts

BTG Inc. and Sysorex Information Systems Inc. captured the Army's PC2 procurement for 133 000 highpowered Pentium PCs with what one industry source described as "astonishingly low prices for very advanced computers." Sysorex according to industry sources won with a bid of $217 million while BTG

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Digitized force may be held back from training until ready

Army Chief of Staff Dennis Reimer indicated last week that the Army may consider delaying training exercises for its brigadelevel digitized force that currently are slated for March and April 1997. Reimer speaking at a press conference at the start of last week's annual meeting of the Association

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Navy awards BPAs worth $90 million

The Naval Information Systems Management Center has awarded four broad purchase agreements worth a total of $90 million for up to 23 500 desktop PCs and servers. NISMC tapped AmeriData Federal Systems Inc. Digital Equipment Corp. Government Technology Services Inc. and McBride & Associates for the

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Paige prods Lockheed Martin to integrate key C3I systems

When executives of Lockheed Corp. and MartinMarietta Corp. proposed a merger they touted the ability of the combined company to deliver economies of scale as well as systems synergy to the Defense Department. Now top Pentagon command and control officials have told the combined Lockheed Martin Cor

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* Room at the top? The Interceptor is picking up mediumstrength signals that no matter the outcome of the election top Pentagon management plans to hit the road by the end of the year. This includes Defense Secretary William Perry and Paul Kaminski the technology and acquisition czar. Also expecte

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Anti-crime measures top spending bill priorities

Focusing on crime and terrorism Congress pumped funding into dozens of law enforcement information technology systems and databasedevelopment projects in the catchall spending bill it passed last week before adjourning. The 1 198page omnibus appropriations bill folded into the 1997 Defense Depart

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Air Force lifts suspension; ZDS ready to fix problems

The Air Force quickly reversed course on its suspension of the Zenith Data Systems Desktop V PC contract reopening it just six days after the Standard Systems Group (SSG) temporarily halted the placement of new orders. SSG will allow ZDS to ship Desktop V orders in 30 days instead of the required 1

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GPS tracks shifting land masses

The satellitebased Global Positioning System (GPS) first developed by the Defense Department to provide highly accurate position and location information has evolved into a technology with many more civilian applications than military. Hikers consult $200 receivers to help them bushwhack across un

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Datadriven DISN. DISA has rescoped the size of DISN based upon a 100 percent surge in traffic over the past year most of it on the data side. Col. Marlin Forbes DISN PM said this reflects the 'phenomenal growth' of both NIPRNET and SIPRNET which host Internets and intranets and their related World

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DISA plans $2B Pacific satellite network

Looking to girdle the Earth with a highspeed communications system the Defense Information Systems Agency last week kicked off a potential $2 billion procurement for a broadband network covering the Pacific and Indian oceans. The agency also said it planned to launch a similar procurement for Euro

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GCCS, Internet top issues at IT conference

MONTGOMERY Ala. The Air Force Standard Systems Group (SSG) headquartered here widened the focus of its longrunning Small Computer Conference renaming it the Air Force Information Technology Conference and organizing it around the theme of 'Linking Today's Warfighter to Tomorrow ' which top Pent

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New comm equipment causes a buzz at Fort Bragg

FORT BRAGG N.C. Moving a team of communicators from one trouble spot to another is routine business for the Army's 112th Signal Battalion. When U.S. troops were sent last April to Sierra Leone to help support the evacuation of aid workers missionaries and other civilians from Liberia the 112th qu