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Four nab infowar pact
The Air Force last week tagged four vendors under one of the Defense Department's most comprehensive information warfare contracts to begin building systems that will support the Pentagon's 21st century warfighting strategy. Under the fiveyear, $353 million Engineering and Technical Support Servic
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Managing corporate knowledge
As federal agencies struggle to comply with policies for creating electronic archives and with congressional mandates to specify annual performance goals and plans for achieving them, database technology will be the catalyst that propels users beyond simply managing data to managing corporate knowl
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CSC to train DOD gumshoes
The Air Force's Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) this month awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a $2.75 million contract to train Defense Department criminal and counterintelligence investigators in the methods of information technology forensics and crime scene investigation. Under the Defense
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Trouble-shooting from the field
In 1973, 18yearold Terry Shatzer charted a course that would take him on a 25year journey across every continent and to a rewarding military career in command, control and computers. Shatzer, now an Air Force master sergeant serving as communicationselectronics superintendent at the Air Combat
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DOD tells Hill IT central to readiness
Two weeks after senior military commanders warned Congress that defense readiness is spiraling downward, a top Pentagon acquisition official this month implored lawmakers to fund modernization efforts or risk losing its edge on the battlefield. Jacques Gansler, undersecretary of Defense for acquisi
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HP, IBM heat up 3-D arena
HewlettPackard Co. and IBM Corp. last week introduced two highend graphics solutions that, although radically different in focus, attempt to take the worlds of modeling, simulation and scientific data visualization to the next level of performance. HP's new Visualize Center and Visualize Workgrou
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DOD enhances nuke planning
The U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom), the senior Defense Department agency responsible for overseeing the nation's nuclear arsenal, this month awarded a $147 million contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. to bring the United States' nuclear planning capabilities closer to the demands of the postCold W
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GTE software fosters virtual intell community
The Defense Intelligence Agency last week awarded a contract for a key piece of an estimated $200 million project that will give intelligence analysts across the globe an unprecedented capability to work together on information, collaborating in real time. Under the $18 million contract, GTE Govern
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EDS sets precedent for Y2K info sharing
With the Clinton administration pushing for hightech vendors to share more information on the status of their products, Electronic Data Systems Corp. this month announced the creation of what the company described as the world's largest database of Year 2000compliance information. The Vendor 2000
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DOD agency sheds the paper trail
Just 15 months before Defense Department agencies must comply with a departmentwide paperless contracting mandate, last week the Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) announced it was the first DOD agency to complete the conversion. The achievement represents the first tested enterprisewide
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Future shock: Air Force conducts battle experiment
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. The Air Force last week launched the first in a series of experiments designed to test cuttingedge information technologies that will help the Air Force completely reinvent the way it wages war in the 21st century. Known as the Expeditionary Force Experiment (EFX) 98,
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DOD's Hamre spells out Web rules
Just one week after senior Defense Department officials expressed concern over the posting of sensitive information on DOD World Wide Web sites, Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre last week issued a departmentwide action plan to boost DOD's Web security policy. The move was a response to concer
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DOD issues plan for scrubbing Web sites
Just one week after senior Defense Department officials expressed concern over the posting of sensitive information on DOD World Wide Web sites, Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre today issued a departmentwide action plan to tighten DOD's Web security policy.
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DOD reels in content on Web sites
Concerned about the security risks posed by the availability of some types of information on the World Wide Web, the Defense Department has begun to pull pages from its Web sites while top DOD officials carry out a department-wide review.
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Air Force discusses its networking woes
MONTGOMERY, Ala. The Air Force will revamp its network and systems operations in the coming years, with plans calling for everything from outsourcing more than 10,000 jobs in the information technology work force to adopting hardware and software standards and integrating worldwide networks into
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Air Force pitches info operations command
Concerned that information technology has become central to the Defense Department's ability to wage war successfully, the Air Force recently sent a proposal to top Pentagon officials to create a special command for information operations (IO). Speaking at the eighth annual InfowarCon '98 conferenc
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Sun CEO McNealy takes the stage at Air Force show
Scott McNealy, chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems Inc., took the opportunity of making a keynote address at the Air Force Information Technology Conference to predict yet again the demise of the PC. Kicking off 'Industry Day' last week at the show in Montgomery, Ala., McNealy predicted tha
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AF looks to IT to help field 'agile' forces
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Information technology will play a major role in a new Air Force initiative to improve the ability to respond to crises around the globe, according to Gen. George T. Babbit, commander of the Air Force Materiel Command, who kicked off the 12th Annual Air Force Information Technolo
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Navy to meld two IT pacts in $800M deal
The Navy plans to merge two highprofile information technology contracts for enterprise database and server technologies into a single contract worth $800 million. The Navy's Information Technology Umbrella Program, which oversees all Navy IT contracts, plans to issue a request for proposals that
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AFITC show biggest ever
The Air Force today kicked off the 1998 Air Force Information Technology Conference in Montgomery, Ala., and by all accounts the conference will exceed past years' conferences in size and scope. 'This year we sold out a lot earlier than last year,' said Air Force Capt. Tom Hansen, the conference ch
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