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Bite that hand; DIMHRS on Slim-Fast?; Borland Consulting LLC; Morgan smacks NMCI; Army branding blitzkrieg

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Simulating peacekeeping

War games help Pentagon plan options

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Raytheon garners backbone contract

The Air Force hired Raytheon for up to $360 million to build a new network to allow easier processing of data from reconnaissance aircraft.

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Army brass tweak portal

AKO not user-friendly, officials say

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Army seeks seal of approval on PCs

The service wants to make sure its PCs are standardized on Windows XP.

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Army IT office takes over six programs

The Army's top information technology program office has assumed control of initiatives for the Army National Guard, Reserve and Defense Department.

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Guard, Reserves to combine networks

The Army will manage GuardNet and ARNet as one enterprise.

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CSC gets $1.1 billion simulator deal

The 20-year contract covers computer simulators for the Army helicopter forces.

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Congress keeps DOD tech spending flat

Concerned about the Pentagon's oversight of technology spending, the House and Senate agreed last week to cut $200 million from the Defense Department's proposed budget for information technology in fiscal 2004.

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DOD bill provisions

The fiscal 2004 DOD spending bill includes other tech provisions

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Learning from NMCI

The Air Force is already tackling an issue that has plagued the Navy Marine Corps Intranet ? the overwhelming number of computer applications in use across the service.

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GIG-BE winners?; AKO's price tag; Off with their heads; A DCIS is born

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Military awards GIG-BE fiber contracts

Defense officials refused to name the winners, citing worries that enemies would cut those companies' lines.

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Army deputy CIO to retire

Dave Borland will retire Nov. 30 after 33 years in government.

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Defense bill cuts IT funds by $200 million

The 2004 Defense Appropriations Act would cut IT funds less than the House originally wanted.

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Army aviation program honcho to retire

Maj. Gen. Joseph Bergantz, who oversaw development of the military's first unmanned aerial vehicle, will retire next July.

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Air Force forms new IT office

The Air Force created a new organization to develop a servicewide IT architecture and study ways to improve administration networks' management.

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Iraq request includes $2 billion for info tech

Proposals for communications systems and research, development, test and evaluation were in Bush's supplemental funding request for Iraq and Afghanistan.

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DISA net contracts kept in the shadows

Vendors are busy jostling for position on the Defense Department's $886 million Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program.

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Harvey a hard charger; Investigating NMCI; Autodin on, ceremony off; Air Force base at Microsoft