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Defense CIO to leave job soon

Analysis finds most DHS employees are watchers and investigators

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NSA seeks signal analysis partners

Other agencies should be more involved in processing intercepts, the NSA director says

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Quantum Leap tests network warfare

The Defense Department will conduct an experiment today to test network-centric warfare operations

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Air Force to study computer purchases

The Air Force Information Technology Commodity Council will determine how the service buys PCs, the group's deputy director said this week

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Microsoft to seek Air Force input

The service will have a say in how the company develops future products, CEO Steve Ballmer said.

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DOD will split IT spending, CIO says

Budget will separate business systems from war-fighting IT

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DOD experiment tests transformation

The Defense Department will conduct an experiment this week testing network-centric warfare operations

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Intercepts

JSIMS: Fixing the Fix; Microsoft Preps News; Marines Aim for the Final Frontier; Army Hears Comsat Lobby

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Boeing lands Air Force deal

The aerospace company won a $126 million deal to build a test platform for the Air Force's E-10A command and control program

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Vendors named for DOD health procurement

Twenty companies made the list for the $8 billion, 10-year IT purchasing mechanism for the Defense Department's Military Health System.

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Air Force awards three contracts

The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts would support the Special Operations Command.

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Air Force updates logistics system

CSC will get $108 million over five years to work on the service's Stock Control System.

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Air Force, Navy merge JTRS programs

They established a single management and oversight structure for merging their portions of the Joint Tactical Radio System.

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More GIG-BE contracts awarded

The Defense Information Systems Agency did not name the three winning vendors.

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DOD spending bill signed

It includes $97 million in IT cuts.

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QSS wins ITES order for TNOSC

The company also won three other jobs under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions contract.

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Bush to sign Iraqi spending bill

Congress approved almost $2 billion in IT spending as part of the package.

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Bush to request $401.7B for military

The president will ask for a 7 percent increase in the Defense Department's budget for fiscal 2005.

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Three win $490M Air Force deal

Dell Inc., General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman will provide a new communications infrastructure when aircraft and personnel deploy overseas.

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Air Force wants faster patching

Officials ultimately hope to have software patches implemented across the Air Force in minutes.