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Col. Otis Ferguson took over as chief of the Army Space Command Colorado Springs Col. Ferguson who previously served as deputy commander for the Space Command's Theater Missile Defense Element succeeded Col. Bill MacArthur who retired. Col. Teddy Bitner replaced Ferguson as commander of the Theater
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GTE, PRC snag $674M support services contract
The Air Force last week awarded contracts to GTE Government Systems and PRC Inc. as part of a $674 million program to provide support services for information systems at 20 bases under the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). Under the MIS Technical Support II program the two contractors will fill ta
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DOD proposes new regulations
Senior Defense Department officials proposed this month new rules for modular contracting that would encourage agencies to consider problems they may encounter when building large information systems piece by piece according to a memo sent to the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council. Emmett Paige
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DT V 8(a) protested; ZDS clears up backlog
The Air Force's recent selection of International Data Products Corp. as the apparent winner of the Desktop V smallbusiness contract has been met with a protest from Dynamic Decisions Inc. Rosslyn Va. Bob Hesser director of federal sales at DDI declined to provide any details of his company's prot
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U.S. sitting duck, DOD panel predicts
The dependence of the United States on computers and communications systems to run its critical power finance and transportation systems places the country at risk in the event of an information warfare (IW) attack according to a report prepared by a toplevel Defense Department advisory panel. Thi
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Survey asks agencies to calculate costs
Spooked by the amount of money agencies may be spending on building and maintaining Internet systems Congress has ordered a governmentwide survey of such costs. The survey which the General Accounting Office sent to agencies Nov. 1 has sparked some fear of a future crackdown on Internet use. Congre
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Paige prods Lockheed Martin to integrate key C3I systems
When executives of Lockheed Corp. and MartinMarietta Corp. proposed a merger they touted the ability of the combined company to deliver economies of scale as well as systems synergy to the Defense Department. Now top Pentagon command and control officials have told the combined Lockheed Martin Cor
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Digitized force may be held back from training until ready
Army Chief of Staff Dennis Reimer indicated last week that the Army may consider delaying training exercises for its brigadelevel digitized force that currently are slated for March and April 1997. Reimer speaking at a press conference at the start of last week's annual meeting of the Association
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PC-2 field cut to six bidders
Two vendors have been eliminated from the competition for the Army's $554.4 million PC2 buy and at least one protest may be in the making according to industry sources. Additionally Zenith Data Systems which recently ran into performance problems on the Air Force's Desktop V contract last week pul
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GSA offers up `home page of home pages'
The General Services Administration last week unveiled the Government Information Exchange (GIX) World Wide Web page an Internet site the agency hopes will serve as the first stop for government employees and private citizens seeking information on federal state local and foreign government program
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New comm equipment causes a buzz at Fort Bragg
FORT BRAGG N.C. Moving a team of communicators from one trouble spot to another is routine business for the Army's 112th Signal Battalion. When U.S. troops were sent last April to Sierra Leone to help support the evacuation of aid workers missionaries and other civilians from Liberia the 112th qu
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GCCS, Internet top issues at IT conference
MONTGOMERY Ala. The Air Force Standard Systems Group (SSG) headquartered here widened the focus of its longrunning Small Computer Conference renaming it the Air Force Information Technology Conference and organizing it around the theme of 'Linking Today's Warfighter to Tomorrow ' which top Pent
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Raytheon snares Tri-band satellite deal from GTE
Raytheon Electronics Systems captured the Army's Triband Tactical Terminal contract worth a total of $157 million in a fierce fourway competition that included GTE Corp. which built prototype Humveemounted terminals under a $10 million contract. The Army could order up to 275 of the Raytheon Tri
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Air Force wants faster patching
Officials ultimately hope to have software patches implemented across the Air Force in minutes.
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Bush to request $401.7B for military
The president will ask for a 7 percent increase in the Defense Department's budget for fiscal 2005.
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Bush to sign Iraqi spending bill
Congress approved almost $2 billion in IT spending as part of the package.
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Navy to use more simulation training
In addition to combat training, the Navy is distributing to simulation software for navigation practice.
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Navy narrows legacy systems
The service has cut its applications by nearly 65,000, many of which had no users
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