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Ex-WAAS vendor Wilcox challenges award to Hughes
Wilcox Electric Inc., recently removed as the prime contractor for the Federal Aviation Administration's Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), last week challenged the agency's decision to award the contract to subcontractor Hughes Aircraft Co. without soliciting new bids. According to Wilcox, WAAS
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Informix launches product for 64-bit platforms
With Unix hardware vendors migrating to 64bit technology, Informix Software Inc. last week enhanced its Unixbased database software for running largescale, highperformance applications. Informix OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 provides support for 64bit platforms and a parallel backup and recovery f
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Air Force halts PC sked orders
The Air Force last week nixed plans by users to buy Desktop V "killer" PC packages that vendors planned to offer on the General Services Administration schedule while protests on the megadeal are being resolved. In a memo dated May 31, the service directed all major commands "not to procure off
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Insignia debuts new Ntrigue server software
Insignia Solutions Inc. last week introduced a new version of its Ntrigue application server software that includes new systems administration features and other enhancements that make it easier to deploy as part of large networks. Ntrigue allows Unix, Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh and Microsoft Co
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Budget woes may ground tower effort
The Federal Aviation Administration, faced with an uncertain budget environment, is once again cutting back one of its major air traffic control modernization programs. As part of its new strategy for Tower Automation, which involves replacing the hardware and software at select air traffic control
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Crisis Management Center gives safety a new look
When natural disasters this year paralyze movement by air, ground or water, it will be the new technologyfocused Crisis Management Center (CMC) at the Transportation Department that responds first. The center, at DOT headquarters in Washington, D.C., was established last month as a central command
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FAA systems overhaul hoped to allow `free flight'
The Federal Aviation Administration expects to launch a large systems integration procurement this fall to overhaul the agency's air traffic management system and move the aviation industry toward a revolutionary method of air traffic control (ATC). The Air Traffic Management System Development and
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20 companies to share $1B services prize
The Transportation Department, with the National Performance Review as a backdrop, last week awarded 20 contracts under a $1.13 billion services program, which it hailed as an example of "new" information technology procurements possible under recent federal acquisition reform. The Information Te
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Digital, HP nab $594M workstation buy
Digital Equipment Corp. and HewlettPackard Co. captured the Army's first major workstation procurement, a $594 million buy of Unix and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NTbased computers, software and peripherals. Army WorkstationI represents an important opportunity for both Digital and HP to gain shar
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Tech glitch shuts out Bosnia e-mails
Last week cartoonist G.B. Trudeau treated readers of his "Doonesbury"comic strip to a fictional Internet exchange between troops in Bosnia and the folks at home. "Doonesbury" depicted a fictional Navy Lt. Tripler, identified as a "NATO IFOR (Implementation Force) morale officer," effortlessly
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IC4I vendor addition protested
A recent Air Force decision to add a third vendor to a $929 million smallbusiness contract that provides security products and services surprised and upset the current contract holders and their industry partners. The Air Force announced its decision to add Systems Research and Applications Corp.
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SGI slashes prices, targets wider market
Silicon Graphics Inc., a major player in the military simulation and imaging markets, is taking aim at a broader user base for highend graphics systems, slashing prices on two Onyx products by up to 45 percent. Effective immediately, SGI's Onyx RealityStation is priced at $59,900, a 45 percent red
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DISA buys $3M in licenses from Transarc and TriTeal
The Defense Information Systems Agency has purchased nearly $3 million in software licenses that it will distribute at no cost to Defense program managers developing command and control systems that comply with the agency's requirements for commercial software components. As part of its effort to b
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FAA to pool safety data
Just days before the crash of a ValuJet DC9 in the Florida Everglades, the Federal Aviation Administration proposed an international initiative to identify safety threats before accidents occur by pooling safetyrelated data from all corners of the aviation industry. Although the FAA and other gro
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Valone leaves FAA for CACI
Robert Valone, who joined the Federal Aviation Administration two years ago to manage the troubled air traffic modernization program, is leaving next month to become a vice president at systems integrator CACI Inc. Valone most recently was the deputy director of research and acquisitions at the FAA
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Satellite navigations get $570M in support
The General Services Administration recently launched a $570 million program to provide support services to the Federal Aviation Administration, the Defense Department and other agencies interested in developing satellitebased navigation projects. GSA's Federal Systems Integration and Management (
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HP to broaden TAC-4 offerings
The Navy soon is expected to approve a broad technology refreshment of HewlettPackard Co.'s Tactical Advanced Computer4 (TAC4) workstation contract. In addition to offering price/performance increases with new workstations, servers and graphics technology, the contract update will give Navy user
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CA tests Unicenter release
Computer Associates International Inc. last week began full field testing of CAUnicenter The Next Generation (TNG), a muchanticipated release of its systems management platform that is expected to be widely adopted by the Defense Department and other agencies. Although CA has not yet announced pr
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Atlanta to test people, traffic systems
Athletes from around the world will not be the only ones gathering in Atlanta this summer to test their prowess in the centennial Olympics. Numerous federal agencies are using the Olympic Games as an opportunity to test new computer systems designed to ease the strain that an estimated 2 million vi
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Abba Technologies to resell Maximum Strategy line
Abba Technologies Inc., an 8(a) systems integrator, will carry highend storage solutions from Maximum Strategy Inc. as part of its highperformance computing product suite, under an agreement announced last week. Abba Technologies, also a Silicon Graphics Inc. reseller, will integrate Maximum Stra
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