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Clinton gives missile defense program boost
The Defense Department last week nearly tripled the budget for developing a national missile defense (NMD) system, but warned that the decision to go forward with such a system depends on whether the technology is capable of supporting it.
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DOD database stifles disclosure on animal research
The Defense Department is not providing adequate public disclosure of information in its database for tracking past and ongoing biomedical experiments on animals, according to a General Accounting Office report.
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San Francisco says no to Marines' high-tech exercise
San Francisco this week slammed the door on a Marine Corps proposal to use neighboring national parklands as the site for an major military exercise designed to test cuttingedge information technologies in an urban environment.
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ESC to study outsourcing computer support
The Air Force's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is launching a study to determine whether commercial vendors can provide more costefficient base supply services to ESC and other Air Force units, the service announced today.
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DOD logistics lacks leadership, panel finds
The Defense Department's logistics programs, which will account for roughly onethird of DOD's fiscal 2000 budget, needs stronger leadership to begin taking full advantage of the technology available in the commercial arena, according to a senior member of the Defense Science Board.
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Marines launch "Enterprise" computer buy
The Marine Corps is looking for vendors to meet its worldwide requirements for desktop computers, laptops a
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Y2K threatens Army chemical plant systems
The Army has until the end of January to devise a plan to fix serious Year 2000 problems affecting a chemical weapons disposal system designed to destroy nerve gas and blister agents, according to a recent internal Defense Department report.
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DOD faces infowar controls
A draft resolution calling for the United Nations to study the impact of information technologies on global security may force the Defense Department to consider international controls on the development and use of strategic information warfare tools. In a statement made in October before the U.N.
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DOD readies rollout of JTAV logistics system
The Defense Department this spring plans to release the first version of an application designed to solve a problem that has plagued every military commander from Charlemagne to Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf: keeping track of soldiers and equipment as they move across the world's battlefields. DOD plans
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Air Force adds 27 firms to services program
The Air Force last week awarded blanket purchase agreements to 27 additional vendors under a $750 million information technology services program, which eventually may include a mix of 75 large and small businesses. The latest round of BPAs is part of the threeyear Information Technology Services
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SGI debuts NT workstations
Silicon Graphics Inc., one of the industry's best known developers of highend Unixbased visualization systems, this week will introduce its first line of Microsoft Corp. Windows NTbased workstations, which company officials say will raise the bar significantly on desktop computer performance. Th
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Report: Y2K problems could close DOD chemical plant
Officials at an Army chemical disposal site for nerve gas and blister agents have seriously mismanaged Year 2000 fixes to critical computer systems, raising the possibility that the government will shut down the site at a cost of $2 million a week, according to a recently released report.
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U.S. mulls offensive info warfare strategy
A debate is brewing in the Defense Department about whether the United States should continue to pursue offensive strategies to attack enemies via cyberspace, thereby opening the door to future coordinated and sophisticated attacks by other countries, according to an author of a recently released study.
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HP beefs up its high-end Unix server line
HewlettPackard Co. this month announced its latest highend, Unixbased server, reaffirming the company's commitment to the Unix operating system and its own reduced instructionset computing (RISC) processor architecture. The new HP 9000 V2500 combines HP's 64bit HPUX 11 Unix operating system w
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Intel licenses Pentium to federal agencies
Intel Corp., the world's leading manufacturer of microprocessors, recently announced an unprecedented agreement with the Energy Department under which the government will use the Pentium processor design to develop radiationhardened chips for spacecraft, satellites and other defense systems. Under
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Critics: DOD Web policies too strict
This month's release of the Defense Department's longawaited policies and procedures for posting official information on DOD World Wide Web sites puts unprecedented discretion in the hands of local commanders and marks a significant departure from past Web guidance. DOD's 'Web Site Administration
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CA-Unicenter receives DII COE certification
Computer Associates International Inc.'s enterprise management application last week was certified for the Defense Department's Common Operating Environment initiative. The company claims the application is the first enterprise management solution based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT to be certifi
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AF set for wholesale move to service BPAs
In one of the largest initiatives to buy services through the General Services Administration schedule, the Air Force this week plans to award blanket purchase agreements to 40 teams under a threeyear, $750 million program for a broad range of information technology support services. The Informati
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CIA expands Web presence
Culture is difficult to change, particularly in the intelligence community. However, the CIA recently displayed a willingness to share more of the supersecret agency's history and organization with an expanded World Wide Web presence. For a community that places secrecy at the heart of almost ever
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Intergraph CEO aims to make most of fed market
Not many people can remember where they were and what they were doing at precisely 7:51 a.m. Dec. 27, 1968 the launch time of Apollo 8 and the beginning of America's first manned lunarorbital mission. But Jim Meadlock can. At the time, Meadlock, now chief executive officer of Intergraph Corp., a
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