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Army lays out logistics plan

The service hopes to connect logisticians to global communication networks in two years.

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Convera offers Web organization tool

The company's Taxonomy Workbench software is meant to help agencies classify and organize data.

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Army honchos to meet on future comm systems

Army leaders will meet in early January to decide funding for future Army communications systems, industry officials said.

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MCI provides free calls for troops

Military personnel in Iraq can call home for free through Jan. 5.

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Report urges network redundancy

The Progress and Freedom Foundation says the federal government should push for greater redundancy in communications systems.

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EDS wins $300 million outsourcing pact

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives bid out a contract to manage 8,500 seats in almost 260 locations.

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Army seeks better Stryker communications

The service recommended spending $1.4 billion on artillery, aviation and communications improvements for the final two Stryker Brigades.

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Qwest spears Mint deal

The telecom firm will provide backup Web hosting for the U.S. Mint.

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Former MCI boss dies

John Sidgmore, who led MCI into its bankruptcy, was 52.

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NASA finds Wi-Fi success in Meteor Crater

Engineering achieved wireless throughput of 1 MB per second over 1.3 miles.

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GAO sees no strategy for military's commercial bandwidth

The Defense Department's process for buying satellite bandwidth can be too slow and inflexible, according to the General Accounting Office.

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Iraq contracts limited to allies

Countries that didn't take part in the conflict can't get reconstruction contracts, including a communications one.

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GIG-BE equipment contracts coming soon

Winners of hardware contracts for the military's Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion will be announced Dec. 19, a Juniper official says.

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Military sees network benefits from IPv6

The next generation of Internet standards will help the Defense Department reach its goal of network centricity, a DOD official said today.

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Storage on demand

3PAR lets IT staff move storage behind the scenes to applications that need it

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PC vendors break new ground

IBM, Panasonic ruggedize notebooks; HP's blade PC allocates resources

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Oak Ridge to develop network

The Energy Department lab received $4.5 million to build a so-called petascale network.

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AT&T exec to join Input

Thomas Sisti will leave AT&T Government Solutions to become a vice president with Input.

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Pentagon Renovation goes forward

The building will get at least 700,000 miles of data lines over the next seven years.

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Portal X links foreign service

For the first time, the State Department is able to deliver information in virtual time to diplomats.