Digital Government

Intercepts

Live from Montgomery Ala.: We airlifted the Interceptor mobile unit here to report on the Air Force Information Technology Conference hosted by the Standard Systems Group (SSG). Here's the best from the bit stream. * Prodigals welcome. DISA director Lt. Gen. Al Edmonds seems unfazed that the Treasu

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Air Force suspends Zenith PC contract

MONTGOMERY Ala. The Air Force Standard Systems Group abruptly suspended ordering on Zenith Data Systems Corp.'s Desktop V contract throwing lastminute fiscal year ordering into turmoil.~ ~Competing vendors exhibiting at the Air Force Information Technology Conference here last week moved quickly

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Island-hopping in cyberspace

Do you have endofthefiscalyear burnout? Tap into the World Wide Web to do some armchair islandhopping. This tour of federal island Web sites will take you far away with just a few key strokes. Start with Diego Garcia a remote atoll in the Chagos Archipelago located north of Mauritius and east

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Air Force pans ZDS tardiness

The Air Force has run into delivery problems with Zenith Data Systems on more than 10 percent of the orders placed on that company's Desktop V PC contract and has put its longtime contractor on notice to fix them. Ken Heitkamp technical director of the Air Force Standard Systems Group Montgomery Al

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Intercepts

WWMCCS hammered. DISA shut down the aging mainframebased command and control system on Aug. 30 and the agency's GCCS team headed by Rear Adm. John Gauss received a Hammer Award from Vice President Al Gore last week. No word on what DISA plans to do with the mainframes but the Interceptor figures R

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

AF team earns Hammer Award

Directed by a presidential order to streamline the declassification process for secret documents the Air Force realized it first had to bring some order to its classification system which involved more than 600 paperclassification guides ranging from 30 to more than 100 pages each. An Air Force te

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Sarnoff, Air Force demonstrate wireless technology at JWID

David Sarnoff Laboratories has adapted an emerging commercial wireless technology to transmit wideband data potentially up to 2 gigabit/sec to battlefield communications.The technology called Local MultiPoint Distribution Service (LMDS) originally was developed to transmit more than 100 channe

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Army orders ISC revamp

Following a year of study the Army plans to reorganize its Information Systems Command (ISC) leaving the Arizonabased unit with only its worldwide longhaul communications mission while dispersing its acquisition systems engineering and software development units to commands in Georgia New Jersey

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

The case of the missing Air Force notebook PCs

Eugene Rossel vice president of Unitek Technology Inc. a small Ontario Calif. PC reseller and manufacturer believes the Zenith Data Systems/PackardBell marriage has fouled up service and repair causing three notebook computers belonging to a missioncritical Air Force unit to end up lost. Unitek s

  • By Bob Brewin
People

Raytheon snares Tri-band satellite deal from GTE

Raytheon Electronics Systems captured the Army's Triband Tactical Terminal contract worth a total of $157 million in a fierce fourway competition that included GTE Corp. which built prototype Humveemounted terminals under a $10 million contract. The Army could order up to 275 of the Raytheon Tri

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

DOD sets sights on development of Shared Data Environment

SAN DIEGO Now that the Defense Information Systems Agency has developed a Common Operating Environment (COE) for its combat and support systems allowing users to share applications the agency wants to do the same for data. The development of a Shared Data Environment (Shade) will allow users to t

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Linking with Lynx lessens lag time

Running a graphical World Wide Web browser such as Mosaic Netscape or Internet Explorer over an ordinary phone line amounts to an act of blind optimism best understood by folks who believe every year that the Red Sox will win the pennant. Even highspeed localarea networks hooked up to the Interne

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

For Perry, IT is a day at the beach

Some folks like to bring a stack of pageturning books to the beach to escape the office grind. Not Frank Perry the Defense Information Systems Agency's point man for integration engineering and interoperability he packs a pile of technical tomes. Perry DISA's technical director for engineering and

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

MCI wins DISN bandwidth manager

After years of fighting for a place in the federal telecommunications market MCI last week won the Defense Department's continental United States switch and network management contract ending AT&T's decadesold hegemony over military longhaul services. One industry analyst called the MCI win "an

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Intercepts

FIRST INITIAL * Sayonara WWMCCS. Look for DISA to finally turn off the World Wide Military Command and Control System within the next week with the Global Command and Control System taking over from the aging mainframebased command and control system said DISA director Lt. Gen. Al Edmonds speaking

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Exhibition showcases warfighter IT links

FORT BRAGG N.C. Three weeks ago Capt. Ronald Lewis a helicopter pilot with the 82nd Airborne Division Aviation Brigade temporarily traded in the cyclic controller of his Kiowa Warrior helicopter for a mouse hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc. workstation. Since then he has tested the ability of

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Webmasters advocate an open environment

Netscape Communications Corp. and Microsoft Corp. aim to compete for market share in World Wide Web browsers by emphasizing unique features of their particular products but that will not gain them any new federal fans. Government Webmasters see their job as making sure that the largest possible num

  • By Bob Brewin and John Moore
Digital Government

JWID Web sites serve up hot tech for warfighters

Gadgets and gizmos galore that's what's promised at the annual Joint Warfare Interoperability Demonstration (JWID). If you can't make it this week to one of the JWID '96 sites then you can tap into JWID on the World Wide Web on a home page hosted by the Army at www.army.mil/jwid96.htm. Once on th

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Soldier faces court-martial in espionage case

FORT BRAGG N.C. The Army has charged Pfc. Eric Jenott assigned to the 35th Signal Brigade 18th Airborne Corps with espionage theft of computer passwords and computer crimes involving classified military networks that include unauthorized hacking of supposedly secure systems. The Army provided onl

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Intercepts

FIRST INITIAL * Nipping at NIPRNET. MCI seems less than pleased with the Fedsim/Pulsar/Sprint trifecta that will result in DISA moving NIPRNET traffic off the AT&T DCTN net and onto a highspeed nonFTS 2000 Sprint network that could eventually sport ATM under the hood. I am picking up signals that

  • By Bob Brewin
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