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Digital Cameras Track Peace-Keeping Mission
Since Operation Joint Endeavor began in December, the Defense Department's combat photo journalists in Bosnia have dispatched thousands of images from the field in digital format. Digital photography began to take hold in the military during 1993's Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. But in Bosnia,
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Cordant ready to run with IC4I deal
Cordant Inc. is ramping up to do battle with BTG Inc. on the $929 million Integration for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence program. The Air Force awarded IC4I smallbusiness setaside contracts to Cordant and BTG on Dec. 1, 1995. Days later, the Air Force halted work on
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New Logistics Systems Identify, Track Bosnian Shipments
If the Defense Department ever ran a contest for the cleanest airfield, Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia, stands a good chance of winning, despite the mud. That's because Tuzla, the main airhead for the 1st Armored Division and its headquarters, is the most obvious beneficiary of a new Pentagon approach to l
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Troops at Home With COTS Hardware, Software
Visit practically any U.S. unit in Bosnia, Croatia or Hungary whether it's doing business out of a tent, a trailer or a shotup office building and in one quick glance you'll see anything from a handful to a roomful of commercial offtheshelf computers and workstations. From the NATO Combine
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Code analysis tools and services abound for feds
Federal agencies have limited time to fix the year2000 problem, but they have no shortage of specialized software tools and service providers from which to choose. The number of vendors specializing in finding and fixing daterelated computer code has ballooned to more than 100, according to some
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Unisys upgrades server, mainframe product lines
Unisys Corp. today upgraded its mainframe and server lines and launched a new multiprocessing server platform that the company plans to sell through the General Services Administration schedule. Unisys' barrage of announcements included the latest generation of its 2200 and A Series CMOS mainframe
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Systems integrators jockey for spots on DEIS follow-on
Six systems integrators leading massive teams of subcontractors last week submitted bids on the Defense Information Systems Agency's $3 billion DEIS II procurement. DEIS II is the followon to the $1.2 billion Defense Enterprise Integration Services contracts awarded in 1993 to BDM Federal Inc., Bo
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Year 2000 causes double trouble for feds
No one knows how much it is really going to cost to fix the year 2000 in millions of lines of government software. Pentagon estimates exceed $1 billion. Mitre Corp.'s report to the Defense Department on the problem said DOD may have to spend up to $8.52 per line of code checked. DOD may also have t
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JetForm lands role on National Guard Bureau's RCAS
JetForm Corp. last week said it may sell up to 56,700 licenses of its electronic forms products under the National Guard Bureau's Reserve Component Automation System. JetForm will provide software, services and training to support RCAS. The software will be used to automate purchase orders, requisi
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Logicon revamps I-CASE software and hardware
The Defense Department's Integrated ComputerAided Software Engineering contract is poised to offer software development, database and workstation products at prices designed to beat the General Services Administration schedule. Earlier this month Logicon Inc., the ICASE prime contractor, added Te
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DISA to tap updated I-CASE pact
Once hampered by outmoded technology, the Integrated ComputerAided Software Engineering contract, held by Logicon Inc., is being revamped with new offerings and may be tapped as the key buying vehicle for commercial software products to be used in command and control systems. The Defense Informati
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DISA launches $3B tech services pact
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week kicked off the DEIS II procurement, the followon to the popular Defense Enterprise Integration Services program. At $3 billion, DEIS II has three times the contract ceiling of its predecessor and could become the largest technical service contract e
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EDS formally opens Navy's PC LAN+ for business
Electronic Data Systems Corp. last week formally opened its Navy PC LAN+ contract for business. At a Washington, D.C., customer briefing, EDS provided details on ordering procedures, product offerings and pricing. Although the event was designed to kick off the networking pact, ordering actually st
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Delrina upgrades FormFlow
Symantec Corp.'s Delrina Group today announced FormFlow 2.0, a major upgrade of the company's federally popular electronic forms software. FormFlow 2.0 offers features that may strike a cord with federal users: the ability to store forms on Internet file transfer protocol (ftp) sites and an encrypt
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Apple/Sun dealings continue
Talks between Apple Computer Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. continued last week regarding a possible sale of Apple to the workstation vendor. The negotiations, which came to light two weeks ago, follow Apple's announcement last month of losses and layoffs. Apple has been struggling to maintain mark
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Novell links GroupWise to the Internet
Novell Inc. last week unveiled an extension to its groupware product line designed to provide collaborative computing over the Internet. Novell's GroupWise WebAccess is a serverbased product that allows users to access their GroupWise mailboxes through any PC with an Internet connection and a Hype
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Lotus Notes 4.0 provides conversion challenge
Federal users looking to migrate from earlier versions of Lotus Development Corp.'s Notes to Notes 4.0 are in for a challenging task. That is the opinion of a number of resellers and consultants experienced with Lotus' groupware product line. Accordingly, vendors are offering Notes 4.0 seminars and
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Vendors form policy group
IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are among the 14 companies that are pooling their public policy efforts within the Business Software Alliance, a Washington, D.C., software industry organization. The companies last week formed BSA's Policy Council. In addition to IBM and Microsoft, the council consist
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Lockheed/Loral combination would be tops in integration
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s plan to acquire the bulk of Loral Corp.'s defense business will catapult the combined company to the top of the federal integration market. The companies earlier this month announced their "strategic combination," in which Lockheed Martin will buy Loral's defense electroni
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Notes 4.0 tangles with Web
Lotus Development Corp. today will formally roll out Lotus Notes Release 4.0, a pivotal product that has won high praise from federal Notes adherents but faces competition from groupware solutions based on the Internet. Agencies and resellers began receiving copies of Notes 4.0 last week. The new p
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