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Leveraging the Municipal League to Protect Local Telecom Rights
The success of the telephone industry in whittling away at cities' rights to manage and regulate their local telecommunications rights-of-way has created a revenue emergency for some local governments.
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The New Universal-Service Rules: Less Than Meets the Eye
On May 8 the Federal Communications Commission released its longawaited rules defining how universal telecommunications service will be achieved.
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MCI promotes local service
Representatives from MCI said they met last month with about 50 federal telecommunications managers to encourage them to consider the company as a localservice provider able to compete for contracts traditionally held by regional Bell operating companies. Jerry Edgerton vice president of MCI's Go
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Navy launches RFI for HYDRA follow-on
'The Navy has issued a request for information for an onboard commercial wireless communications system that industry values between $20 million and $100 million. The Navy's Integrated Wirefree Communications System procurement is a followon to a smaller program the Hierarchical Yet Dynamically R
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MCI, DOD explore security issues in upcoming BT buy
In anticipation of its announced purchase by British Telecommunications PLC MCI's Government Markets division has been working with the Defense Investigative Service to ensure that the company's guidelines for protecting federal classified communications meet the standards established by the Defens
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Motorola takes Air Force contract worth $263.7M
Motorola Space and Systems Technology Group won the $263.7 million Air Force Theater Deployable Communications (TDC) Integrated Communications Access Packages Program contract late last month. Motorola bested both GTE Corp. and Harris Corp. for the key program which is designed to upgrade communica
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DISA plans $2B Pacific satellite network
Looking to girdle the Earth with a highspeed communications system the Defense Information Systems Agency last week kicked off a potential $2 billion procurement for a broadband network covering the Pacific and Indian oceans. The agency also said it planned to launch a similar procurement for Euro
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Fed machines lead in speed
The latest Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers confirmed the recently announced processing marks set by machines built for the Energy Department and NASA.
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Three win $490M Air Force deal
Dell Inc., General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman will provide a new communications infrastructure when aircraft and personnel deploy overseas.
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Microsoft buys anti-spyware firm
Software maker will deliver solutions based on Giant Company's technology
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AT&T seeks FTS 2001 re-bid
Protest asks GSA to terminate FTS 2001 contracts with Sprint and WorldCom and reopen competition
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QSS wins ITES order for TNOSC
The company also won three other jobs under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions contract.
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USPS orders 300,000 scanners
The Postal Service wants Motorola handheld devices for reading signatures and bar codes.
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More GIG-BE contracts awarded
The Defense Information Systems Agency did not name the three winning vendors.
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New worm avoids feds for now
The MyDoom worm's author may have avoided .gov and .mil sites to delay the creation of antivirus definitions, a Symantec official says.
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ViaSat gets Iraq satellite contract
Lockheed Martin hired ViaSat to provide equipment for a satellite network to be used by coalition forces.
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Air Force, Navy merge JTRS programs
They established a single management and oversight structure for merging their portions of the Joint Tactical Radio System.
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