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PLGR explosion injures one, prompts safety measures
An Army Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver manufactured by the Collins division of Rockwell International Corp. exploded during an exercise at Fort Irwin Calif. last month injuring one soldier who required hospitalization. The blast caused the triservice GPS Joint Program Office (JPO) to rec
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Doing the DSSG. Signals from my East St. Louis antenna site correlated with intell picked up by my Courthouse Road stealth unit indicate Government Systems Inc. has quietly dropped its protest and suit against the $3 billion DISN support pact awarded to Boeing by DISA. This clears the way for B
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Democrats in Chi'town
The Democrats still have the party that likes to party based upon a glance at the World Wide Web site (www.democrats.org/) the Democratic National Committee (DNC) set up for the party convention starting Aug. 26 in Chicago. While the Republican National Convention Web site strived to keep "cyberd
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Netscape still dominates in federal marketplace
Although the federal version of the battle to dominate the World Wide Web is just heating up Netscape Communications Corp. remains the browser of choice for federal users even though Microsoft Corp. is throwing enormous resources into its push to emerge from a distant second place. Microsoft last w
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Micron aims to prime on federal contracts
Micron Electronics Inc. thinks its PCs can make the big time in the federal market and has ambitious plans that include bidding PC deals as a prime contractor. Though a newcomer to the federal arena the Nampa Idahobased company already has vaulted into the ranks of top 10 PC vendors on the General
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White House to unveil Web policy
The White House has drafted privacy and security guidelines for agencies maintaining World Wide Web sites that the Office of Management and Budget plans to circulate this fall.At that time OMB will also release guidelines detailing how the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and the Information Technolog
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Politics, pigeons and pygmy mammoths in San Diego
Ahhh technology. Thanks to the Internet and the World Wide Web political conventions now have moved from smokefilled rooms to cyberspace. When the Republican National Convention (RNC) starts today in San Diego Internet users around the world can tap into a sophisticated Web site that for starters
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DTV upgrades. Look for Hughes Data Systems to upgrade its DT V offerings a Pentium 166 at "a good price point." That's the word from Felice Liston director of government sales at Micron Electronics the Hughes DT V PC supplier. Liston expects the change to occur before the end of the fiscal 1996 b
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Three win JITC contract for engineering, support
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week tapped three vendors to provide an array of engineering and support services for the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) at Fort Huachuca Ariz. Competing over the fiveyear life of the $420 million taskorder contract will be BDM Engineering S
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GCCS misses July deadline
The Defense Information Systems Agency missed its endofJuly deadline for replacing the antiquated World Wide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) with the Global Command and Control System (GCCS), but a top agency official expects to have the program back on track by the end of August. Re
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Rapid Battlefield Visualization tops list of ACTD projects
The Pentagon unveiled its Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) candidates for fiscal 1997, with information technologies for the battlefield leading the list of programs that could make it from development to the field in the near future. Many of these initiatives are part of an overall
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MCI wins $8M Army satcom pact for Kuwait
MCI Government Markets won an $8 million contract to provide advanced satellite communications services to the Army Central Command (ARCENT)Kuwait. The system will provide ARCENT with secure voice, data, videoconferencing and facsimile services through highspeed satellite links. MCI has installed
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Web is conduit for Flight 800 data
When The Washington Post wanted to do a story on the hightechnology gear used by the Navy to search for wreckage of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, it tapped into the Navy Public Affairs Library World Wide Web page at http://www.navy.mil/navpalib/.www/welcome/html. Cable News Network, the newly la
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Hughes, ZDS detail portable wares
Hughes Data Systems Inc. and Zenith Data Systems unveiled their portable computer offerings on the Air Force Desktop V contract, as industry analysts and other vendors predicted a booming federal market for the goanywhere machines. Both companies kept the identity and configurations of their porta
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High tech aids search for answers
When TWA Flight 800 plunged into the ocean just 15 minutes out of John F. Kennedy International Airport, the USCGC Juniper, the first of a new generation of hightech Coast Guard cutters, took up a position at the crash site and coordinated the early stages of the searchandrecovery effort. Since
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GSI lobs suit against $3B DISN contract
Government Systems Inc. took its challenge of a $3 billion Defense Department communications integration and support contract to a federal court in Illinois last week, a month after filing a similar protest with the General Accounting Office. GSI filed suit in federal district court in East St. Lou
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Pax DISN. AT&T has pulled off the platoons of guerrillastyle lobbyists who have fought a rearguard action on Capitol Hill for months against DISA's planned DISN architecture. The Interceptor is picking up strong signals from his K Street antenna site that Harry Goodall, the new AT&T defense veep,
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Navy, NOAA use high tech in search
The Navy and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration wasted little time in responding to the crash of TWA Flight 800 this month, dispatching personnel, vessels and hightechnology equipment to the crash scene off the eastern shore of Long Island, N.Y. Capt. Raymond Scott McCord, t
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DMS dates. DISA's doing the DMS rollout as fast as possible, but Tom Clarke, the agency's DMS honcho, no longer will give specific dates for the initial operating capability, originally slated for this month. Clarke told the Interceptor that while DISA and Lockheed Martin are "moving ahead to put
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Force XXI, satellite comm big winners
The Senate strongly backed key Defense Department information technology programs, including the Army's Force XXI and Warfighter Information Network (WIN) as well as Air Force and Navy satellite communications projects, with increased funding when it passed its version of the 1997 DOD authorization
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