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GRCI wins $30M National Guard Bureau contract
GRC International Inc. said last week that it has been selected by the National Guard Bureau for a contract worth up to $30 million. Under the pact, GRCI will support the National Guard Bureau, the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard throughout the United States, the Virgin Islands and P
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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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Airborne ops centers to get $20M-plus comm upgrade
The Air Force plans to upgrade the communications systems on its fleet of four E4B Boeing 747 aircraft that serve as National Airborne Operations Centers (NAOC), under a $20 millionplus program that will see each of the planes equipped with advanced commercial switching and telephone systems. The
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AT&T brings Nimitz crew, families closer
AT&T Government Markets has developed an FTS 2000based interactive voiceresponse system that the USS Nimitz supercarrier used during a recent deployment to help close the information gap between the 6,000 crew members and their families. Capt. Alfred Harms, the Nimitz's commanding officer, said A
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Fore tackles 25-megabit/sec ATM
Fore Systems Inc., the leader in 155 megabit/sec desktop Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) installations in the federal government, last week unveiled its first 25 megabit/sec product. Company officials hope the new switch will attract users of PCs and lowerend workstations. Jeffrey White, product
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NOAA Goes H'wood What do Hollywood and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have in common? Well, tornadoes, for one thing. The premise of the hit movie "Twister" is based on a program undertaken by NOAA's Severe Storms Lab in the mid1980s. The lab rigged a 55gallon drum with ins
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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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Northrop Grumman wins $170M super deal
Northrop Grumman Corp. last week won a $170 million contract to run a highperformance computing center at the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) at Stennis Space Center, Miss.
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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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Lawmakers urge DOD to back integrated bid
The Senate Governmental Affairs and Armed Services committees have asked the Pentagon to explain why it will not accept a single integrated bid for its multibilliondollar Defense Information Systems Network (DISN), a position long advocated by AT&T. The Defense Information Systems Agency has repea
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Software reuse faces barriers in government sector
At one time, the process of creating software was considered 'black magic." Today, through the discipline of reuse, software can be assembled from reusable components.
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Codenoll to unveil fiber-based Fast Ethernet hubs
Codenoll Technology Corp. this week will unveil a new line of fiberoptic Fast Ethernet hubs at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's TechNet '96 show in Washington, D.C. The company will also highlight ADC Telecommunications' recent purchase of 50 percent of Codenoll's comm
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Editorial
Office of Federal Procurement Policy administrator Steven Kelman is fond of saying that the procurement world as we know it is no more. If the recent termination of the WAAS contract by the Federal Aviation Administration or the GSA/Sprint battle over FTS 2000 prices weren't enough, last week's awa
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SoftBoard teleconferencing system attracts federal users
A ceramic whiteboard fitted with lasers is the basis of a teleconferencing system that lets discussion leaders broadcast their whiteboard notes over networks to remote attendees in real time.
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Intercepts
Still learning. My Bosnian remote antenna site has picked up strong signals that the muchhyped DARPA/DISA commercial Bosnian C2 network still has its share of problems. They're still having big problems with commercial power in Sarajevo and not enough backupgenerator capacity. The lesson learned
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Air Force Col. Edward C. Mahen received the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's 1996 Achievement Award for Outstanding Performance for his leadership role in the Bosnian Command and Control Augmentation (BC2A) initiative.
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Nature of CIO Council undecided
The emerging Chief Information Officers Council could become either an influential force in information technology management and procurement or a "debating society" that shares war stories over lunch, depending on how seriously its members take their charge
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IDP withdraws NTOPS complaint The Navy last week reopened the New Technology for Office and Portable Systems a $206 million acquisition of desktop and portable computers after the second of two protests was dropped. International Data Products Corp. withdrew its protest with the General Service
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Sprint to offer ATM to NASA on FTS 2000
ATLANTA Apparently succeeding where its chief competitor failed, representatives from Sprint's Government Systems Division said last week they have negotiated a deal to offer Asynchronous Transfer Mode capability to NASA on the FTS 2000 network. Intense negotiations between Sprint, the General S
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