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EDS collects Navy net services BPA
The Navy last week awarded a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to Electronic Data Systems Corp. to provide local and widearea networking services to installations and commands across the agency.
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FAA taps COMSAT for satellite comm
The Federal Aviation Administration late last month selected COMSAT Corp.'s Mobile Communications division to provide satellite communication services as part of the agency's Global Positioning System (GPS)based navigation programs.
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PRC wins $46 million DIA deal
The Defense Intelligence Agency last month awarded a $46 million contract to Litton/PRC Inc. to modernize databases and related applications across the intelligence community and to bring new database technology into the field. The intelligence community like other components of the Defense Departm
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GTE, PRC snag $674M support services contract
The Air Force last week awarded contracts to GTE Government Systems and PRC Inc. as part of a $674 million program to provide support services for information systems at 20 bases under the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). Under the MIS Technical Support II program the two contractors will fill ta
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Lotus, Microsoft to lure feds with new 32-bit apps
The new generation of 32bit office application suites from Lotus Development Corp. and Microsoft Corp. featured prominently at the Comdex computer trade show this week will take the federal market by storm according to the vendors and their resellers. Lotus is using Comdex to introduce SmartSuite
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It's Ada vs. the commercial world - and the lady's still slugging
Although Ada the Defense Department's chosen programming language does not have the market sizzle of some commercial languages its widespread use in weapons systems and missioncritical programs feeds a steady market for development and support tools. Ada's dominance in weapons systems and in aircr
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Feeling at home at the Pentagon
Not many people can claim to have landed the ultimate job perfectly geared to their interests. Anita K. Jones director of Defense research and engineering can. 'If you are interested in science and technology policy if you want to make a difference at that level in the U.S. this is the best job
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Informix shuffles federal unit; Hammersla departs
Informix Software Inc. last week folded its Vienna Va.based federal division into its commercial sales organization as part of a corporatewide restructuring. As part of the reorganization Edward Hammersla III executive director of Informix's federal operations has left the company. Under the new c
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Setting an agenda for the 2nd term
Despite the departure from Congress of several strong champions of procurement reform vendors and government managers believe that the new leaders of congressional oversight committees will continue on the path of the last several years and will push for agencies to adopt commercial business practi
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Report suggests DOD limit Ada use
The National Research Council has recommended that the Defense Department roll back its longstanding often unpopular mandate requiring the Ada programming language and reserve it for use only in weapons systems and other warfighting software. The recommendations are part of 'Ada and Beyond: Softwar
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NAS moving toward all-digital technology
The Federal Aviation Administration anticipating more crowded skies in the years ahead is considering how it may make a wholesale move to more efficient digitalbased communications throughout the National Airspace System. For several years the FAA has been exploring the use of data link technology
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ARS seen as answer for `reasonable' program goals
The Federal Aviation Administration hopes it has solved a decadeold problem with defining modernization requirements by creating the Air Traffic System Requirements Service abbreviated ARS and putting at its head a former air traffic controller. Neil Planzer director of ARS believes the new organi
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OMB directive seeks more bang for IT bucks
In what some observers called a shot across the bow the Office of Management and Budget last week put agencies on notice that information systems must meet strict new criteria to receive continued funding. In a memo dated Oct. 25 OMB director Franklin D. Raines called for agency and department head
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Compaq unveils new midrange model
Compaq Computer Corp. this week will introduce the successor to its popular ProLiant 1500 network server a machine designed to offer new levels of performance and scalability for departmental network users. The ProLiant 2500 which runs on single or dual Pentium Pro 200 MHz processors will boost per
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CA, Cheyenne join software ops
Systems management vendor Computer Associates International Inc. added storage security and communications products to its portfolio with the acquisition earlier this month of software vendor Cheyenne Software Inc. In a deal valued at $1.2 billion CA has offered to purchase all outstanding shares o
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FAA denies Wilcox protest
In the first major test of its selfstyled Acquisition Management System (AMS) the Federal Aviation Administration this month denied a protest filed by Wilcox Electric Inc. against the award of a contract to Hughes Aircraft Co. for development of a satellite navigation system. The protest stems fro
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DOD adopts simulation standards
The Defense Department looking for more of a return on its investment in modeling and simulation technology has established a basic technical architecture to which all present and future simulation projects must conform. By its own estimate DOD spends billions of dollars each year building maintain
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JIVA holds multiple deals for IT firms
Federal contractors have multiple procurements to look toward as the Defense Intelligence Agency lays out plans to deliver on its proposed Joint Intelligence Virtual Architecture during the next 10 years. JIVA discussed publicly for the first time last month will provide the defense intelligence co
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SGI offers updated products
Silicon Graphics Inc. this week will introduce new technologies to improve performance and scalability across its product line ranging from new entrylevel workstation products for graphicsintensive computing to a new generation of supercomputers. The announcements include the new entrylevel O2 w
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DSB report: DOD must speed outsourcing
A Defense Science Board (DSB) study released last week calls for the Defense Department to move aggressively to outsource most DOD support activities and identifies the data centers as 'an attractive early candidate." The 'Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Outsourcing and Privatiza
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