Digital Government

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Air Force vs. ASD/C3I? I have been picking up strong signals that there is fallout from a newly released Air Force study, "New World Vistas," which lays out the technologies the service believes it needs and does not need over the next 25 years. The study puts some pet projects of ASD/C3I Emmett

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Air Force's upgrade decision could resonate industrywide

The Air Force's threat to hold Desktop IV contractors in default if they do not supply Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95 operating system and Office 95 free to users could have broad ramifications for buyers and sellers of federal information technology. Prime contractors Government Technology Services

  • By Bob Brewin and Dan Carney
Digital Government

Intercepts

Staying The Disn Course. Lt. Gen. Al Edmonds Does Not Buy The Central Argument Of At&T's Disn Protest That It Be Allowed To Submit An Integrated Bid For One Simple Reason: He Never Again Wants To Face The Possibility Of "Turning Dod Upside Down" When Faced With The Expiration Of A Single MegaCon

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Bosnia support nets to get upgrade

The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to upgrade by spring the communications networks that now support U.S. and multinational forces of Operation Joint Endeavor in Bosnia with advanced bandwidth on demand and Global Broadcast Services. According to DISA director Lt. Gen. Al Edmonds, in the

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

DGPS sets new course in navigation

The Coast Guard turned on its nationwide Differential Global Positioning System network last week, launching what Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena called a "new era in navigation." The 47 sites in the Coast Guard DGPS network provide complete coverage of all U.S. coastal waters, includin

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

U.S. know-how brings telecom to peacekeeping in Bosnia

U.S. peacekeepers in Bosnia have constructed one of the most extensive and complex field communications networks ever put together by the military, a voice/video/data infrastructure that stretches all the way from Bosnia to the Pentagon. Some 600plus soldiers of the U.S. Army 5th Signal Command

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Desktop V delayed

The Air Force postponed the award of its $1 billionplus Desktop V PC contract until April, after winnowing down the list of bidders to offerors who made the "competitive range" cut. Despite the delay, the Air Force Standard Systems Center (SSC) wants to keep the program on a fast track, telling

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Intercepts

Internet brownouts. The explosive growth of the World Wide Web and all those cutsie graphics has already started to choke the Internet, according to Mark Kosters at Network Solutions Inc., which runs the InterNic. Kosters, quoted in a startling story on the MEME list, said the combination of wideb

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

DTIC chief heads DOD Web effort

Last month when officials in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (OSDPA) wanted to set up a World Wide Web site containing information about Bosnia, they turned to the Defense Technical Information Center for help. Kurt Molholm, DTIC's administrator, said it took the

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Intercepts

Buy a lot of gangplanks. President Clinton did the DOD acquisition work force a big favor by vetoing the Defense authorization bill. A provision buried in the boilerplate (Sec. 906) calls for reducing the acquisition work force by 15,000 people by Oct. 1. Think of the savings if the same language o

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

DOD set to award $2B in PC, workstation deals

The Air Force and the Navy plan to award personal computer and workstation contracts over the next three months with a combined value of $2 billion, continuing a technologyrefreshment cycle that comes close to mirroring the commercial marketplace. The Air Force Standard Systems Center, Gunter Anne

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

AT&T fires off protest against DISN

On the last day before bids were due on the multibilliondollar Defense Information Systems Network contract AT&T filed a protest against the procurement with the General Accounting Office. Reaction from DOD was sharp. Emmett Paige Jr. assistant secretary of Defense for command control communicatio

  • By Bob Brewin
Digital Government

Electronic health records spread

Development of electronic health records has emerged as a global challenge, say Australian and Canadian IT officials.

  • By Bob Brewin
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