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Army looking to upgrade, secure base comms
The Defense Department's reliance on the nonsecure version of its intranet to carry out and support military operations comes close to madness, and changes must be made in order to upgrade and better secure the department's network infrastructure, a senior Army official said today.
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Pennsylvania Inks Deal for Memory Upgrades
A North Carolina state official earlier this week called for the U.S. Defense Department to assist states with developing a secure publickey infrastructure to support state and local electronic commerce efforts.
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N.C. seeks DOD help in e-commerce support
A North Carolina state official earlier this week called for the U.S. Defense Department to assist states with developing a secure publickey infrastructure to support state and local electronic commerce efforts.
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Calgary Holds Y2K Focus Groups
A North Carolina state official earlier this week called for the U.S. Defense Department to assist states with developing a secure publickey infrastructure to support state and local electronic commerce efforts.
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DOD begins move to software-based security
The National Security Agency took over program management of the Defense Department's softwarebased, mediumassurance computer security program last month from the Defense Information Systems Agency, a key task as the Pentagon rolls out softwarebased security systems throughout DOD.
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DOD preps for possible cyberattacks brought on by Y2K
The Pentagon has started to develop plans that would shut back doors that hook its global networks to the Internet in case cyberfoes try to use any Year 2000 computer date code snafus to mount a cyberattack.
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State Official Looks to DOD for PKI Leadership
A North Carolina state official earlier this week called for the U.S. Defense Department to assist states with developing a secure publickey infrastructure to support state and local electronic commerce efforts.
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AF users say DMS is not light or lean enough
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany The Air Force's premiere communications unit in Europe recently rejected the tactical version of the Defense Message System because the 1,000pound package for unclassified and classified networks was too large to deploy. According to officials at the 1st Combat Communi
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Use rewards to extend vendors' pacts
Bob Woods, the longtime government information technology manager now working in industry, was talking with me recently about the need to have provisions written into government IT contracts that give better incentives for vendors to deliver results. 'I have a great idea,' he told me. 'It's like ai
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INS taps Logicon to assess development projects
Logicon Inc. last month landed an estimated $61 million deal to act as an independent auditor of work performed under a sprawling Immigration and Naturalization Service contract. The fiveyear blanket purchase agreement covers independent verification and validation (IV?#038; Amp;V) services for INS' Service
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Embracing change
When Jerry Agee was growing up near Roanoke, Va., one of the things he wanted most was to see the world. He has spent his career fulfilling his wanderlust. In 21 years with the Navy and 11 with TRW Inc., Agee, who was promoted last month to vice president and general manager of the company's Federa
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Industry Watch
Intel unveils new processors Intel Corp. this week will announce its new Pentium II and Celeron 400 MHz mobile processors. Besides raising processor performance for the last time before Intel releases its Pentium III mobile processors this fall, the PII 400 is the first processor to use the 0.18mi
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Roster Change
De'Borah Applegate has accepted a position with the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service. Applegate will be an investigator for the Office of Management's internal control staff. She was a member of the security team in the USDA's Information Systems Security and Telecommunic
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THE KOSOVO COMM BATTLE. Now that the air campaign in Yugoslavia has ended, I anticipate a fierce ground war in Kosovo, with the combatants this time being the three major U.S. comm companies (and possibly European carriers) looking for a piece of the substantial network that will support a very lon
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Sub-$1,000 PCs defy expectations
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk While systems costing less than $1,000 have been available for more than a year, most government buyers have shied away because those machines lacked the processing power and capacity that agencies demand. Thanks to the Army's PC3 contract, open to all federal agencies
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Interagency groups key to making IT work
In the wake of my retirement, I would like to share some philosophical thoughts with you and offer some feedback about what I have learned in my 30 years in the federal government, which includes more than 20 years in the information technology arena.
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Commission Aims for Dialogue on Internet Taxes
When the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce meets June 2122 in Williamsburg, Va., commission chairman Virginia Gov. James Gilmore will focus less on finding a quick solution to the Internet tax question and more on opening up a national dialogue on the question.
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Round Two
In the June 7 issue of FCW: Because of an editing error, the federal Web sites that the group F0rpaxe had hacked were incorrectly identified. The group hacked into the FBI's Web site. The program for which K. Adair Martinez won a Federal 100 award was incorrectly identified. Martinez won the award
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